Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | While relative factor scarcities may have provided the required signals where there is a lucrative profit to be made , it is not the case for fragile areas and the small farmers who live there . |
| 2 | Alone among recent writers , Hilton suggests that the rising may have deterred the ruling class from further local attempts at repression ( 78 , pp.231–2 ) . |
| 3 | News of their ill-luck may have dampened the post-match celebrations at Branch Road last night after Derry rattled up the highest score of the round , 61–17 against north west neighbours Omagh . |
| 4 | Such patterns may have become a conventional part of the mosaicist 's repertory , indeed , the similarity of these mosaics to some in north-eastern England ( part IV ) suggests a widespread acceptance of these forms of decoration . |
| 5 | Critics complained that instead of just handing him the challenge , Spain 's arts ministry ought to have held an international competition for the best scheme . |
| 6 | Roger may have played a significant part in raising funds for the enterprise . |
| 7 | Significantly , the package features a novel ‘ tutorial ’ : when it is completed , the user should have computerised the financial side of the business , and hopefully , learned to deal with all ‘ financial ’ events that happen in business from opening balances , through stopped or bounced cheques to journals . |
| 8 | The driver must have seen the prepared patch of ice reflected in the moonlight , for I saw his white face lean close to the windscreen . |
| 9 | So it was not surprising that Col. Savill should have had an attentive and appreciative audience on 1 December 1989 , when he spoke on this subject . |
| 10 | Anyone interested in joining the course must have completed the retail management training scheme . |
| 11 | We regard it as almost unthinkable that Parliament should have authorised the Serious Fraud Office to continue the exercise of inquisitorial powers against the accused not merely after he had been charged but also ( as Mr. Pleming accepts and asserts ) throughout his trial . |
| 12 | It is no surprise that parliament should have approved a conservative plan . |
| 13 | Humphreys must have presented a strange sight , bloodied and bewildered and still without his shoes and socks . |
| 14 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 15 | With the higher populations of Amerindians in the past , such groups must have had a major effect on the structure of the forest . |
| 16 | Anyone who survived with Lennie must have had a tough time . |
| 17 | In 1887 its commanding presence must have seemed the very epitome of British rule . |
| 18 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 19 | The FA 's insurers may have to cover the 23-year-old winger 's wages of £100,000-plus a year until he is fit , if Palace can prove their case , but the FA will argue it is not a new injury . |
| 20 | Dinosaurs may have had a four-chambered heart ; if so they were probably warm-blooded . |
| 21 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 22 | Cynics believe that the administration may have made a secret deal with Noriega , and some of the defence testimony seems to bear out this theory . |
| 23 | Again David may have learnt a valuable lesson — children need to learn how to select friends who are good for them . |
| 24 | Even the landscapes , birds and animals may have had a religious significance ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 25 | football may have had a rough old week … but we 've got some celebrating to do now … |
| 26 | TEATIME viewers to ITV 's results service last Saturday may have noticed a promising debut at the Sunderland-West Ham Cup tie . |
| 27 | Until the eighteenth century it was common to house two , three or more corps together in the barn , but a later development was the use of half the barn for threshed straw , filling only one side of the threshing floor with unthreshed corn , and the emergence of this practice may have accompanied the increased use of ricks for housing crops or faster threshing by machinery . |
| 28 | The judge has a discretion to exercise in determining whether-to make such an order , taking account of whether the defendant chose to contest a strong case against him or her and if the defendant must have known the real truth of the matter . |
| 29 | With the awful storms of late February still fresh in most people 's minds , those with four-wheel-drive cars must have found the extra traction a godsend . |
| 30 | The puppets are modelled on the famous illustrations by Tenniel — but Spitting Images must have influenced the formidable duchess and Tebbit-like cook and they stirred their pepper soup and sneezed . |