Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those that sought to grow organically may have faced fewer problems of this type . |
| 2 | I accept that we perhaps should have made this point clear in the December magazine . |
| 3 | To do so would have entailed considerable embarrassment . |
| 4 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |
| 5 | I personally would have prefered two millimetres , the full width of tread and full circumference . |
| 6 | I personally would have preferred that decision to already have been taken . |
| 7 | The preparation of the foundations and the timbers alone would have required considerable time and although C12 is the largest building excavated at the site , the effort required to build many of the others would not have been much less . |
| 8 | For example , blind people will be unable to use light/dark changes and so will have to make more use of a regular sleep/wake rhythm or of social commitments . |
| 9 | ‘ But the 1861 to 1865 papers are kept under lock and key , ’ warned the owner , inferring that those that I freely but reverently leafed through might have to have similar protection one day . |
| 10 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 11 | They possibly should have scored more tries , but as against England , the Welsh defended very well . ’ |
| 12 | The construction of the temple of-Aphrodite in the first century BC must have required abundant material , and although it is plaus ible to assume that local stone-cutters did exist , more ambitious projects clearly demanded more sophisticated and skilled sculptors and architects . |
| 13 | The Etruscans of the second century B.C. must have discovered some allegory of death in such episodes . |
| 14 | Even on a far smaller scale the pilgrimages to Jerusalem of the third century B.C. must have represented important events . |
| 15 | The simplification of criminal procedure also may have discouraged false cases because defendants were put to less inconvenience when the charge had little or no evidence to substantiate it . |
| 16 | To be a nation , said Ernest Renan , one of its great modern theorists , the individuals who make it up must have forgotten many things . |
| 17 | McGeechan reflected that Scotland probably should have scored three tries and there was some suspicion about the Scottish scrummage ( though preparation for the England game in that regard will not be as fraught as last week ) . |
| 18 | But I think if we 'd made ‘ Rumours ’ then ‘ Mirage ’ then ‘ Tango ’ and then ‘ Tusk ’ it probably would have made more sense from the listeners ' point of view . |
| 19 | If this turns out to the case the great wheel of horticulture really will have turned full circle . |
| 20 | A 45-FOOT dinosaur which lived 200 million years ago may have had eight hearts , say scientists writing in the medical journal Lancet . |
| 21 | Oswald 's adversaries here may have included Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn , a prince of Powys . |
| 22 | ‘ The supporters here should have had more success . |
| 23 | They quite likely the Green Party got a free mailshot and their communication returned or or even might have got some money from them you never know . |
| 24 | The lack of opportunity for people to travel and study abroad would have hastened that decline . |
| 25 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |
| 26 | On Arthur Young 's calculation higher wages did not restore living standards to the levels of the 1780s , for weekly earnings then would have bought fourteen loaves in Winchester , whereas in 1815 they could buy only nine . |
| 27 | At the other end a beardless Zeus in near-profile brandishes a thunderbolt against a kneeling figure who again turns his bearded face towards us , and in the angle beyond must have lain another corpse . |
| 28 | Nobody else could have worn those clothes — the bags ! |
| 29 | Mr. Beck was a formidably powerful personality and doubtless would have passed any examination set for him in his profession — indeed , he did so . |
| 30 | To have attempted otherwise would have involved methodological problems given the nature of the responses that were received . |