Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [Wh det] [modal v] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We now know that some of what must have been his ‘ hopes and wishes ’ and ‘ dreams of fame ’ have been fulfilled ; his worth as a novelist and his work in Canada have been acknowledged by succeeding generations . |
| 2 | They may be composed of impact ejecta , some of which may have been molten . |
| 3 | New courses appear every year to compete with those which are already on the market ( some of which may have been in use for many years ) and which are quite successful in their various ways . |
| 4 | Other field crops included peas and beans before the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries and , later on , numerous new introductions , some of which would have been grown earlier as garden produce but which were grown on a larger scale from the seventeenth and particularly eighteenth centuries . |
| 5 | The terms ‘ Royal ’ and ‘ King ’ are perhaps not altogether appropriate for what would have been no more than tribal chieftains . |
| 6 | One can only be fearful of what could have been the situation . ’ |
| 7 | They wanted the stimulus package , much of which would have been spent in inner cities . |
| 8 | All of which would have been bad enough without Charlotte 's final revelation . |
| 9 | The villa at Box , Wilts. , had pavements of white limestone ( used for much of the background work ) , blue-black lias , a dark-grey/ chocolate-coloured pennant stone , red from broken tiles and yellow oolite ; all of which would have been procurable within about five miles of the site . |
| 10 | At least three examples of unitary affinity are apparent in this region and , therefore , three workshops may have existed in the early/mid-fourth century ( all of which might have been partially contemporary ) . |
| 11 | They are distributed along the shorelines in innumerable enclaves ( sensu Crisp , 1 978 ) * many of which must have been isolated for long enough ( since the sea level rose to its present height after the retreat of the last ice sheet ) for them to have evolved local forms to suit the particular selective influences of their habitats . |
| 12 | But , as she herself points out , the particular activities for which the Shropshire group were prosecuted exist on a continuum with a large number of more common acts , many of which must have been criminalised by the Rant decision ; if the breaking of skin suffices for a conviction of assault , even moderately rough sex becomes problematic . |
| 13 | Lonely for what might have been . ’ |
| 14 | A publisher is eligible for membership when they publish fifteen titles , ten of which must have been commercially exploited land they must all have been written by PRS writer members ) . |
| 15 | Two seconds , one of which should have been a first . |
| 16 | They scored first from what should have been our free-kick , but that 's no excuse because they played some excellent stuff . ’ |
| 17 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 18 | The architect , Roy Toms , of the Waverly District Council , was worried about what could have been an unsympathetic alteration to a venerable building , but a visit to St Martin 's , Dorking , another Woodyer church , confirmed that its architect had adopted raking parapets to terminate the aisle roofs there , and the discovery of this period precedent vindicated the use of this treatment at St James Court . |
| 19 | Craft-level courses are equivalent to what would have been apprenticeship level . |
| 20 | The cellars are full of junk , most of which might have been useful once but all of which is now covered in water or mud or fungus . |
| 21 | The remainder of the treatment would have cost a further £23,000 , most of which would have been recouped in return for appearing in advertising promotions . |