Example sentences of "[modal v] have come [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Once actionable , trusts must have come into popular use , i for already under Claudius a change in the jurisdictional scheme was introduced , and two special praetors were appointed .
2 It must have come as one hell of a shock for you , Skeeter . ’
3 When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City .
4 The missing two-thirds of its energy must have come from elastic tension stored in its huge tendons , tail and lower back .
5 A few fishing boats sat in the lagoon , some outrigger canoes were drawn up on the sand and one small pleasure yacht , which must have come from another island , was anchored to a buoy .
6 In each case , the new school now contained fry of two different sizes , and so it was clear that some must have come from another family .
7 Silver must have come from silver-bearing lead and copper ores but there is no evidence of mining lead itself until the late Saxon period .
8 And then if er you want a so solicitor with you on that day we 'll have to come to some arrangement with you privately about the costs .
9 If I had to Oxford my finger might have come off bythe time I got there
10 ... But no , for he had said her heart was badly damaged , death might have come at any time .
11 If they had agreed with British Airways , I could understand that they might have left the issue alone , but they might have come to different conclusions and taken different action .
12 Left to themselves , folk musicians did what they could without the guidance which might have come from experienced musicians .
13 Now then , if the council could , could 've come to some agreement and put in there , it would of made it right for us , now , you see we 've done so before , this is what I do n't like about he , he applies for planning permission does er the notice was no bigger than six inches long and four
14 Erm we discovered we could have come through this road here
15 At first instance , the judge held that the accommodation had to be appropriate and that no reasonable authority could have come to that conclusion in this case .
16 We would have hoped that the county and district councils would have so organized their selection processes that they could have come to this examination in public fully prepared to argue the merits of geographical location .
17 I do not think that if the council , on making an inspection , had found the gate newly padlocked , they could have come to any conclusion other than that [ the defendant ] was intending to exclude everyone , including themselves , from the land . " …
18 Their attitudes were so different , they could have come from separate planets .
19 It was not a whistle that could have come from human lips , but a chilling scalpel shriek he had heard only once before in the Fifth Dominion , when , some two hundred years past , his then possessor , the Maestro Sartori , had conjured from the In Ovo a familiar which had made such a whistle .
20 Elsewhere , much of the smooth plains material could have come from large impacts on the so far unseen hemisphere .
21 So he said well if you 'd have come over this morning June you 'd have fainted !
22 Careful readers of the financial pages may have come across another property announcement last week .
23 He may have come to this decision in 1531 or 1532 and then proceeded cautiously because of the fear of opposition both at home and abroad .
24 Come to think of it , the Krooms may have come from outer space , though outer space was not then as popular as it later became for launching expeditions against Earthmen .
25 It was a narrow squeak for Errol , for had Newry lost to Queen 's a fortnight ago and ended up in a relegation decider against the students , the ban would have come into immediate effect .
26 Whether he would have come to that conclusion if the building was betting-shop is an interesting thought , but we ‘ ve been delighted to go along with his judgement .
27 Domestic consumption fell by 1 per dent ‘ whereas we thought it would be up by 1 per cent ’ said Dicks , and he reaffirmed his belief that ‘ recovery would have to come from domestic consumption ’ .
28 Even so , the bulk of the increase would have to come from improved yields , as it has in the past three decades .
29 The money would have to come from another source .
30 Some will have come through mainstream nursery experience with its honourable history of innovation ; others by way of special/remedial education routes .
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