Example sentences of "what [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led an attack on what ought to have been his own castle , and blew it up with dynamite ! |
| 2 | The Norwich City and Scotland striker , a figure of such unmitigated misfortune that money deserted him at the height of what ought to have been a highly lucrative and rewarding career . |
| 3 | If the wording of a trust has been omitted and the other provisions accord with what ought to have been written , by analogy with institution as heir and with legacies a trust will be understood to be duly given and insufficiently expressed in writing . |
| 4 | It conforms to our modern secular perception of what ought to have happened . |
| 5 | In February an Empire Crusade candidate beat the official Conservative into third place at East Islington , and left Labour holding what ought to have been a very vulnerable seat for the Government . |
| 6 | In many respects you are only being asked to do what ought to have been done around the time of your last birthday . |
| 7 | Brady was yesterday reluctant to say too much on the subject of his meeting with some board members , but it was obvious that the details of what ought to have been private business becoming public knowledge had disturbed the manager . |
| 8 | And there is a point of view from which Ronald Fraser might be seen as a man of Marxist leanings who paid a professional adviser what may have been a fair whack of a working man 's wages to enquire with him into the deficiencies of his affective life . |
| 9 | Klima 's first loves have a way of not working out ; and what may have been his longest affair is the one about which least is said . |
| 10 | There was what may have been a bishop 's mitre on the skull , which grinned amiably up at us . |
| 11 | One must appreciate that with the passing of time all things progress ; what may have been of considerable interest to one generation may not be to the next . |
| 12 | Despite what may have appeared as the rejuvenation of an all-but-lost career , Solly is still a long way from committing himself to the marathon . |
| 13 | There are several references to what may have been congenital syphilis . |
| 14 | Herbs are cast into the fire by the Lady of the Flowers in lieu of what may have been gory sacrifices by our sun-worshipping ancestors . |
| 15 | All these factors reduce the response rate , no matter how good the original sample may have been , so that what may have been a reasonable one-in-five sample to begin with ends up as nearer one-in-ten actually obtained , because of losses . |
| 16 | What may have been looked forward to as a release may instead be an unexpected let-down , with retirement from work adding to the feeling of helplessness and lack of purpose . |
| 17 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |
| 18 | In general we are our own worst enemies when it comes to enlarging and reinforcing our fears , so that what may have begun as a minor apprehension can escalate into a problem of mammoth proportions . |
| 19 | FEBRUARY , May and August could be seen as rehearsals for November 's main event so that what may have been a series of happenings in these months could lead to November 's denouement . |
| 20 | ‘ In fact , that 's still what may have happened , is n't it ? |
| 21 | Do you have any idea what may have caused this ? |
| 22 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 23 | In this way , Taking the Side of the Other can involve making explicit what may have been previously implicit . |
| 24 | On what may have been chosen as an auspicious day , 4 July 1927 , Sukarno founded his own party , known as Partai Nasional Indonesia ( PNI ) or Persatuan Nasional Indonesia ( Indonesian National Unity ) . |
| 25 | I think we should forget about what may have happened in the past and pray for a series which might well become a classic . |
| 26 | Fourthly , control is not just a matter of identifying progress , it is also a matter of putting right what may have gone wrong . |
| 27 | Singer ( 1958 ) , in a critique of the Boskop Skull which was discovered in 1913 on a Transvaal farm , points out that what may have been justifiable speculation at the beginning of the century is inexcusable now . |
| 28 | Although , as we shall see , many varied and lengthy accounts of what may have been the distinguishing characteristics of the fabliaux have been produced , the short definition given by Bédier in 1893 still attracts support : the fabliaux , he declared , are " " contes à rire en vers " " . |
| 29 | to misinterpret religious people 's behaviour and commitment ; 2. to take literally what may have been intended metaphorically or symbolically ; 3. not even to see the possibility of the truth of religious concepts . |
| 30 | Okay , so what acc what may have accounted for agriculture 's decline in relative terms in world trade ? |