Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That two of his sons had fought for Parliament may have played a part in this transfer of loyalty . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Here , with my seal-profile friend Fairfax , in the sight of the Mountain of God , I see that Victoria may have had a point . |
| 7 | If this were so then these other clubs must have breathed a sigh of relief when City 's books were not produced . |
| 8 | If state officials perform a particular action , the elite must have had a goal which that action helps . |
| 9 | My mum must have had a seizure of something when she had me — ‘ Let's call him Lenworth ! ’ |
| 10 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 11 | Some archaeologists , irrespective of their scepticism over Ivan Koltsov 's announcement , have expressed concern that Pravda should have shown a map of the underground areas , and that Koltsov publicly described seeing local boys playing with ancient gold goblets which they had supposedly found in the underground passages . |
| 12 | It was alleged that the accounts should have shown a turnover of £2.19m and not £23.69m and that bills of exchange for £2.39m ( referred to as the ‘ Gimco ’ bills ) , included as ‘ bills receivable ’ , should have been treated as irrecoverable . |
| 13 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 14 | Baseball may have become a parks game in Britian in recent years but now in Gloucestershire there 's a new name to put alongside the Chicago Whitesox and the Los Angeles Dodgers … the name on the shirt is the Gloster Meteors . |
| 15 | Sheriff Robert Younger told him : ‘ You are a first offender and perhaps your alcoholism may have played a part in these offences . |
| 16 | If they cause very high casualties the enemy units may have to take a panic test in the same way as for missile casualties . |
| 17 | It 's believed a man who answered the advert may have aranged a meeting and then strangled her . |
| 18 | RESEARCHERS in Texas may have found a way of reducing brain damage in road accident victims who have been drinking excessively . |
| 19 | And talking about that — some readers may have encountered a research questionnaire in some copies of PFK recently . |
| 20 | As it happened a political upheaval in Indonesia in 1965 – 66 ( in which American contacts with the military in Indonesia may have played a part ) brought an unexpectedly early end to the confrontation with Britain . |
| 21 | Fresden Manor should have become a centre for local children to study Roman history . |
| 22 | ‘ The drivers must have had a shock . |
| 23 | During the 1590s Evesham must have had a London workshop . |
| 24 | EAT pointed out that ‘ a contract of employment can not simply be silent on the place of work ’ and that ‘ the employers were in business as contractors working at different sites ; so the parties must have envisaged a degree of mobility ’ . |
| 25 | Gregory should have added a second but he headed tamely over after Gary Thompson had stormed down the right . |
| 26 | It still seemed quite amazing the old traders should have chosen a route as totally inhospitable as this to make their crossing of the Himalayan barrier . |
| 27 | One of the guards must have made a substitution . ’ |
| 28 | Attempts to avoid altered glycaemic control , which is a confounding variable , during the study might have masked a tendency for increased hypoglycaemia with human insulin , but since insulin doses did not change throughout the study this is also unlikely . |
| 29 | Rex might have managed a smile . |
| 30 | Even Phyllis 's racial prejudice might have had a touch of the humorous about it , if it were n't so offensive and pathetic . |