Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK , Sun Microsystems ' drive to flush out some of the value-added resellers which it says do n't actually offer any value-add ( UX No 399 ) , will take the form of a new contract which they 'll have to sign to become authorised VARs . |
| 2 | Had they not had such a resource at their disposal some might have had to forego particular orders , others might have been obliged to withdraw entirely from certain markets , whilst still others would have been less willing to innovate with new products offering chances of survival or expansion . |
| 3 | Both these cat families were in zoos , where the proximity of the male was forced on the female and where , if anywhere , one might have expected to see tom-cat aggression towards the young . |
| 4 | Among the mechanisms that may have evolved to resolve genetic conflicts are sex , Mendelian genetics , the existence of two sexes , the rarity of hermaphroditism and the equality of the sex ratio . |
| 5 | The lack of spatial learning with moving landmarks suggests that spatial learning processes may have evolved to extract geometric invariance from the environment in a manner analogous to that in which conventional associative learning principles are held to extract the ‘ causal structure ’ of the environment . |
| 6 | But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages . |
| 7 | But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages . |
| 8 | In the first case , fieldworkers may have wished to retain certain functions , such as working directly with children and young people , as their prerogative , because they considered themselves to be better trained to undertake these tasks , albeit with limited time at their disposal and with , in some instances , limited skills . |
| 9 | The Anti-Corn Law League may have helped to secure Whig support but what Peel himself called in a letter to Cobden his " 'sense of public duty " was more influential . " |
| 10 | The prospect of such a deal may have helped to boost Colombian exports to Mexico by 27% last year . |
| 11 | For instance , the standard of merchantable quality of secondhand or shop-soiled goods is clearly less than of brand new goods , and a vendor who spells out that he is selling secondhand or shop-soiled goods is still warranting conformance with description , but it is a different description from the one he would have applied to brand new goods . |
| 12 | But a spokesman for Asda said confidence was brittle and retailers would have to continue to provide real value for money in the battle to win an important share of High Street custom . |
| 13 | For , if he did not , he would have to continue to make partial payments to some of his creditors to the injury of others . |
| 14 | Since Leapor , according to Freemantle , destroyed much of her juvenilia , it is possible she would have wanted to exercise similar judgement over the publication of her two volumes . |
| 15 | The plant , which would have cost between £1,100 million and £1,700 million , had already been backed by the cabinet , but was rejected by MPs on environmental grounds , despite the boost it would have given to recession-hit Finnish industry . |
| 16 | I should like to see what I would have to do to expose other aspects of your personality . ’ |
| 17 | Most patients ( 718/769 ) would have preferred to use postcoital contraception than experience an unplanned pregnancy . |
| 18 | It is almost certain that he would have had to take evasive action to miss Roddymoor 's houses and likely too that he tried to make a pond to douse the licking flames . |
| 19 | Even the villains speak truly of their villainy , like Iago in Otello , but he , Davide , would have had to make false speeches to client and judge , had he taken the fees for claiming some rickety starveling was the landowner scholar come back to earth . |
| 20 | There will be an ever-widening gap between maintained and private schools , and especially boarding schools , which will have to continue to provide extra-curricular activities , even if they have to pay extra to their staff to enable them to do so . |
| 21 | Litter and Recycling : Industry will have to prepare to take recycled waste rather than use raw materials and the legislation may need the boost of tax incentives . |