Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may have ruined the image a bit , after all , not even Prior , Keen , Baldwin could have had that many motorbike-riding clients . |
| 2 | ‘ That must have caused a flutter . ’ |
| 3 | That must have cost a packet . |
| 4 | ‘ Whoever did that must have had the bodies of John and Angela in their possession , either dead or alive . |
| 5 | A luxurious yacht like that must have carried an engineer — we can find that out easily enough — and it 's a fair guess that the engines would have been maintained in an immaculate condition . |
| 6 | That should have prompted the police to question him closely , but they never did . |
| 7 | so I should , er , that should have set the precedent , I get paid for it this year |
| 8 | Some may have left the area but many found continued support among dissident laymen and a strong , if scattered , Dissenting tradition grow in Sussex , particularly in the eastern half . |
| 9 | And some may have entered the country illegally , which usefully enforces their silence . |
| 10 | One might tentatively define complementary medicine as diagnostic , therapeutic , and preventive procedures excluded from mainstream medicine ; some may have passed the test of time , most are of unproven effectiveness , and all are based on unscientific philosophies . |
| 11 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |
| 12 | This may have strengthened an impression that occurs frequently to his critics , one of relentless eccentricity most manifest in forgetfulness . |
| 13 | Overall , this may have given the impression that the Swamp Eel has nothing going for it . |
| 14 | This may have affected the differences we found in relative risks between mortality and admission to hospital for coronary heart disease among the younger men . |
| 15 | Much of the detailed research that has made use of the concept of structured dependency has , however , focused on the relatively small and exceptional subgroup of elderly people living in institutions , for whom the concept of dependency seems more immediately relevant , and this may have biased the outlook of social policy analysts in their discussion of the much larger group of economically and socially independent elderly . |
| 16 | During September 1991 free concessionary travel was replaced by new concessionary fare structures introduced by individual bus companies and this may have reduced the number of elderly people using buses . |
| 17 | Some fear this may have harmed the LME 's reputation , and could drive prices , which have fallen by 50% in two years , still lower . |
| 18 | Historians of publishing have also detected some tendency towards specialisation amongst publishers by the 1780s and 1790s and this may have helped the appearance of antislavery writing . |
| 19 | This may have had an effect on the conversation : first , in respect of the content , which may have been different from what they would otherwise have talked about , and secondly in that the girls may have tried consciously to use " Jamaican " . |
| 20 | It is often called the god from the sea , and this may have encouraged the identification as Poseidon . |
| 21 | I will be out there because I am , and this may have surprised a lot of , a very youthful appearance of me , I 'm gon na be a granddad in August and October this year . |
| 22 | This may have prompted the barrel 's September departure before a resting place , apparently , had even been found . |
| 23 | Cutting ticket prices for the French may have helped the park nearly to hit its attendance targets , but it has also eaten into revenues . |
| 24 | The English must have echoed the rejoicings of the people of Rouen when it was announced , in the early summer of 1444 , that a truce had been agreed between England and France , and that Henry VI was to marry Margaret of Anjou , a niece by marriage of Charles VII . |
| 25 | This should have satisfied the students , but it was too little , too late ; a course of action had been set into motion which was difficult to reverse . |
| 26 | ‘ They are doing it for you and the children. : This must have saved a lot of misery , as she was really listened to . |
| 27 | This must have reinforced the terror of such places , as portrayed in Beowulf and the chronicles relating to St Guthlac . |
| 28 | Indirectly this must have represented a challenge to the influence of Aethelred of Mercia in the East Saxon region . |
| 29 | John Coles , Bryony Orme , and members of the Somerset Levels Project have estimated that this must have involved the exploitation of extensive woodland from which materials were taken out to be fitted into the track planks from the same tree occur in different parts of the track . |
| 30 | I was told , back in those days , that he had built a working steam model of the locomotive to go with the coaches , but this must have left the district some years earlier , as my father never saw it , and never met John Griffiths , though he knew of Ernest from about 1910 , having started his articles in that office . |