Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ossett is mentioned in the Domesday Survey as Osleset , and the town guide explains : ‘ The name has Saxon origin , but a settlement may have existed here when the Romans were using the Via Vicinalis or Accommodation Road which ran between Agbrigg and Dewsbury ’ . |
| 2 | On any sound military precept , the Russians should have withdrawn eastward until the mobilization of their limitless manpower had been achieved . |
| 3 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 4 | This covert attitude of declaring oneself unable to conceive as possible an exercising of audacity which in fact really took place gives the impression that the speaker thinks that the persons who did the action should have known better than to try . |
| 5 | Edmund Barham 's wooden acting as Carlos would have mattered less if he had been vocally more alluring and if his stilted phrasing had taken a hint from Mark Elder 's conducting . |
| 6 | Adopting a Formalist approach to the nineteenth-century realist novel would certainly involve a thorough-going change of mental habit , and the critic would have to work harder than s/he does when reading Joyce to see round the fabula and the realistic motivation ; but this is not to say that it might not produce some interesting results . |
| 7 | Whether this is a true story or not … the people of Tetbury will have to go further than the town 's only bookshop for a copy . |
| 8 | I sense that you are suggesting the County Council should have done more than write a paragraph or two |
| 9 | That law might have developed so as to recognise a condictio indebiti — an action for the recovery of money on the ground that it was not due . |
| 10 | FINANCIAL advisers and fund management companies authorised by the Financial Services Act could have to find more than £37m to compensate investor losses — a threefold rise in 12 months . |
| 11 | The travel industry feared that with the UK market leader — Thomson — having about 31pc of the market , two companies would have controlled more than three-fifths of the market had the Airtours bid succeeded . |
| 12 | The sun would have shone brighter if yourself had been there . |
| 13 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 14 | On the insurance pitch Pearl romped ahead 87p to 639p , with many suggesting AMP will have to pay more than 700p a share to win the battle . |
| 15 | The Lord Chancellor will have to weigh carefully whether those benefits , as well as the competition gains and advantages for the consumer identified by Sir Bryan , which stand at the heart of the Government 's policy for legal services , should be pursued , or — as the Advisory Committee and the Bar would prefer — they should be lost and the application rejected . ’ |
| 16 | Surely Sherlock Holmes could have done better than this ? |
| 17 | Otherwise , differentiation could have occurred later if Mercury contained significant quantities of the longer-lived slower-acting radioactive isotopes , notably those of uranium ( U ) , thorium ( Th ) and potassium ( K ) . |
| 18 | To photograph the house for the news last night the cameraman must have stood just where he had stood himself , on the edge of the lawn with his back to the cedar tree . |
| 19 | Weasel Eyes looked as if he had n't moved but the other two hypocrites must have dined well for they were slouched , half-asleep , in their high-backed chairs . |
| 20 | This story seems garbled and may be nonsense , but the coincidence between King Haldanus and the Haldenne princeps regis of the Canterbury material remains ; possibly Cnut did have a relative or associate of this name , for the fact that his sister Santslaue occurs only in the Liber Vitae of New Minster Winchester indicates that his kin could have extended further than the threadbare sources reveal . |
| 21 | Indeed , one author could have submitted more than one strategy ( although it would have been cheating — and Axelrod would presumably not have allowed it — for an author to ‘ pack ’ the competition with strategies , one of which received the benefits of sacrificial cooperation from the others ) . |
| 22 | The probability of a particle getting out of a black hole of the mass of the sun would be very low because the particle would have to travel faster than light for several kilometers . |
| 23 | Yet identification with the aggressor , even if it may suggest a very early and rudimentary phase in superego development and therefore in internalization of the primal father , can not explain what had to happen next ; for , as we have seen , the crucial turning-point would have come only when aggression within the brother-band became inhibited . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a question of pragmatism , because we found to obtain rights to certain tracks would have cost more than the budget for the entire picture . |
| 25 | Carrie would have died rather than say these things but Nick would n't be embarrassed : he could say them without turning a hair ! |
| 26 | Buyers will have to move quickly as the discounts apply to anyone who can complete by the end of January . |
| 27 | Investors may have to wait longer than they anticipate before enjoying maximum premiums . |
| 28 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 29 | Things might have happened just as he says . |
| 30 | Montgomery smiled in a kindly and tolerant fashion which any average person would have found more than wildly infuriating . |