Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the current recession may have diverted the union response towards a defensive approach , while undermining the ability of unions to gain substantial increases in their involvement in decision making over new technology areas which managers may defend as their own prerogative . |
| 2 | ‘ The recession may have made a difference in the sense that people are being more realistic about what they can afford , ’ said the magazine 's associate editor Fenella Willis . |
| 3 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
| 4 | Lack of support during previous clinical experience may have sapped the confidence of the learner . |
| 5 | Filling in the details on the marriage certificate may have proved a problem for Benjamin : his mother was now past hope in the workhouse , and his father had died when he himself was less than two years old . |
| 6 | Nor was the sound level on the main roads increased despite the greater concentration of traffic there ; indeed the smoother driving on these roads may have reduced the sound level of some of them , though this has yet to be verified . |
| 7 | The accused also might not be able to call witnesses who saw the damage-causing driver , because that driver may have terrified the witnesses to prevent them from giving evidence . |
| 8 | Such domestic refuse may have been spread on the fields and the removal of floors by later agriculture may have robbed the archaeologist of vital information . |
| 9 | The buyer may have wanted the computer to expand his business and he will be able to claim the resulting loss in profits , provided the seller knew or should have known of this ; that is , it was in the reasonable contemplation of the parties . |
| 10 | If this interpretation is correct , then evolutionism may have played a role in promoting a greater awareness of environmental fragility mainly through its Lamarckian rather than its Darwinian version . |
| 11 | That two of his sons had fought for Parliament may have played a part in this transfer of loyalty . |
| 12 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 13 | Tiny Rowland may have become a bore with his obsession over DTI 's failure to publish the report on the House of Fraser — but on this occasion he is on the side of the Gods . |
| 14 | Jim may have known the assailant or he may have entered the house either quietly or under a pretence |
| 15 | Here , with my seal-profile friend Fairfax , in the sight of the Mountain of God , I see that Victoria may have had a point . |
| 16 | 1.27 In any case involving serious and lasting injury , the plaintiff 's solicitors may have to instruct an accountant to calculate past and future pecuniary loss . |
| 17 | Reconstruction in Victorian times may have rendered the building even more forbidding . |
| 18 | As such , the ethnic minorities represent a major demographic strength for parts of urban Britain , though at the same time their presence may have hastened the exodus of better-off whites and certainly gives rise to a very difficult set of policy issues ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 19 | A man who had superglue squirted in his face by muggers may have lost the sight of one eye . |
| 20 | And , to mix a metaphor , France 's lame ducks may have become an albatross around his neck . |
| 21 | Shearer 's former strike partner Matt Le Tissier should have carried the match ball home last night as the hero who sunk Dalglish 's expensive assembly of stars . |
| 22 | If this were so then these other clubs must have breathed a sigh of relief when City 's books were not produced . |
| 23 | ‘ Her mother called the doctor this morning when she could n't wake her and her GP must have called the police . ’ |
| 24 | If state officials perform a particular action , the elite must have had a goal which that action helps . |
| 25 | It appears from the case decisions on this point that if the court feels that the driver should have seen the signal then the offence will be committed ; |
| 26 | Lukic must have seen the ball extremely late but still managed to get down well . |
| 27 | The market price for these purposes is the price which in normal business dealings those goods would have fetched on the date when the buyer should have accepted the goods . |
| 28 | My mum must have had a seizure of something when she had me — ‘ Let's call him Lenworth ! ’ |
| 29 | The noise must have attracted the attention of the people in the pub because the next thing I heard was Dad 's voice booming above the bedlam . |
| 30 | The truth is that Chelsea should have had the game sewn up long before Beasant 's blunder . |