Example sentences of "what [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 31 | The children were playing in the room and they could have found it and I dread to think what may have happened . |
| 32 | The other man was found dead nearby , he too had been shot in what may have been a drugs related killing . |
| 33 | either subconsciously or consciously interpreted them to , to mean something other than actually what may have been taking place . |
| 34 | What must have distinguished him as being beyond normal was his unconventionally high state of consciousness . |
| 35 | A hook solved the initial problem , then a long , unprotected traverse ( great fun seconding ! ) led to more blank wall and what must have been some truly desperate leading . |
| 36 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |
| 37 | ‘ Your unwillingness indicates insensitivity to what must have been perceived as deeply held and deeply felt concerns and convictions of the Methodist people . ’ |
| 38 | Nameless Lives : Sir Robert Peel ( 1788-1850 ) , who became Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1812 after Spencer Perceval was assassinated and Lord Liverpool became Prime Minister for what must have felt for ever . |
| 39 | In such moments he was not himself , for age had quelled the turbulent spirit , and tamed what must have been a fierce temper indeed … . |
| 40 | She had decided what must have happened to him , why he was taking so long to return , and why she could never recall his face . |
| 41 | ‘ Yes , that 's what must have happened . |
| 42 | The image omitted almost constant service to the Sanusis ; it also omitted what must have been at least intermittent contact with the Turks . |
| 43 | Mr Moran resisted what must have been considerable temptation to rebuke Grobbelaar in a manner similar to Mr Souness 's outburst after the recent defeat at Sheffield United . |
| 44 | The brick built and slated roof mill was built around 1840–41 , in what must have formed part of the garden , and was obviously steam-powered from that date . |
| 45 | This was the site of what must have been one of the longest running water disputes in molinological history . |
| 46 | Ludens , proceeding sedately , worked out what must have happened . |
| 47 | Then the young woman laughed merrily , her voice strengthening after what must have been years of silence , and the whole strange cellar rang with that laughter , and the glass fragments tinkled like broken bells . |
| 48 | During the terrible siege of Leningrad in the last war supplies were eventually conveyed to the starving thousands on carts from Finland across the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland ( it was fortunately an exceptionally cold winter ) — what must have been a fearsome journey . |
| 49 | Charles Kingsley , writing of the final destruction of the Fens , was perhaps the first to regret the loss of what must have been one of the finest natural systems in Europe . |
| 50 | In the same period , Arthur Young , subsidized by the big landlords to promote agricultural improvement , put his finger on what must have been a general attitude , when he described cattle-stealers in the Lincolnshire fens : ‘ So wild a country nurses up a race of people as wild as the fen , and thus the morals and eternal welfare of numbers are hazarded and ruined for want of an inclosure . ’ |
| 51 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 52 | They 're still trying to sort out what must have happened . |
| 53 | Coming on duty , on what must have been the third morning for our ‘ C ’ cases I met Sister Hancock coming unsteadily down from the theatre . |
| 54 | I wondered how these men had managed to endure thirty or more trips in what must have been far worse conditions than this ; in bad weather , being shot at , having to concentrate on map reading and peering through bomb sites , and watching out all the time for enemy fighters . |
| 55 | To his absolute delight the first trap had held what must have been a seven pound salmon , plus a couple of mullet which he had ignored . |
| 56 | There is a crack around most of the head in what must have been a horizontal line at the time of casting . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Corbett then spent what must have been one of the most miserable nights he had ever experienced . |
| 59 | He even came across a restricted locality where lived a colony of what must have been a new sub-species of the extremely rare , Small Mountain Ringlet butterfly , for they were at a much reduced altitude to their normal haunts , and altogether smaller than the regular species . |
| 60 | Little is known of the inhabitants of the old manor house with its interesting architecture in the centre of the village , but the oddly named Hanging Grimston is within the parish , and here the Bouchier family lived in what must have been a grand castle with cottages nearby , and owned much land . |