Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than enough work for at least one such practitioner must have existed in most towns , as there would have been for slaters , tilers and masons in those areas where building stone was in regular use . |
| 2 | He and Richard must have heard about these things but in general they had failed to register . |
| 3 | The times are noted in.my diary and , if they are accurate , I must have survived for several days in succession on as little as one or two hours ' sleep per night . |
| 4 | And he must have gone to those churches for the first time . |
| 5 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 6 | When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City . |
| 7 | A man 's voice replied , ‘ Elizabeth , dearest Elizabeth , you must have thought of these things fully as much as I ! |
| 8 | . I think it 's too late to order today but I 'll have look through those leaflets . |
| 9 | Thorfinn said , ‘ If the landings take place on the north side , they 'll have to look for more boats upriver and get themselves across till we can come . ’ |
| 10 | That 's what I 'll have to get for these chairs |
| 11 | Hilary Wade was taken by the question about what might have happened on these islands had the Romans left us alone . |
| 12 | HOW we could have done with some frogs ' legs among the dire fare served up for national consumption at Stamford Bridge yesterday . |
| 13 | Er we could have done with cars , he says , what are they bringing out this silly thing when we could have done with more cars you know . |
| 14 | In considering the possible effects of soot on global climate , the models suggest that since the soot did not reach the stratosphere ( around 14–15 km in this region ) , where it could have remained for several years , the fires were unlikely to have caused significant global climate effects . |
| 15 | What we do know from Allen 's recent survey of part time working in general practice is that many women working in general practice would have preferred hospital practice , particularly paediatrics , obstetrics and gynaecology , and general medicine , if they could have trained in these specialties part time . |
| 16 | She found herself wondering in amazement how any of them could have listened to those songs : — |
| 17 | If he did n't want a beating , or worse , he 'd have to pander to these monsters . |
| 18 | On 26 May Mozart appeared at court before the King of Prussia , a keen amateur cellist , who may have asked for some quartets . |
| 19 | Abnormal hormone secretion in active coeliac disease may have contributed to these changes . |
| 20 | The verdict on that one , however , may have to wait for many years yet . |
| 21 | The argument of this chapter has been to suggest that a distinctive mode of rationality , which is postmodernist in its opposition to the principles of the Weberian/Fordist organization pattern , may have emerged in some aspects of post-war Japan . |
| 22 | In eighteenth-century England , for example , the practical sciences may have appealed to some dissenters because they were denied access to other professions . |
| 23 | It may have happened on several occasions over hundreds , perhaps thousands of years . ’ |
| 24 | It may have occurred to some readers already . |
| 25 | To avoid this , credit rationing would have to extend to all institutions . |
| 26 | In this way , the institution would be given more flexibility but at the same time would have to live with any mistakes it might make . |
| 27 | What disruption carefully organised and constantly renewed bomb attacks would have wreaked upon this communications ' artery ( i.e. the Voie Sacrée ) , crammed to the most extreme limits of its capacity , requires no details . |
| 28 | Rosalba would have twitched at such words , but Cati was so used to them , she only wavered because she was wondering how to give him her message , and she thought he was going to turn . |
| 29 | But who would have gone to such lengths to scare her , and why ? |
| 30 | Alison would have to deal with those matters , it was her task now . |