Example sentences of "[that] [modal v] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One firm that may have bucked that trend is Star Computers , which has raised some £770000 by selling shares on the Stock Exchange . |
| 2 | He derived some comfort from Rajiv 's habitual elegance ; wearing a suit , shirt and tie that must have cost two months of his salary as an Assistant Under-Secretary of State , he was sitting at the other side of the large , uncompromising desk that the Department provides for its most senior officials , not a hair out of place and his black eyes alive with amusement . |
| 3 | Fran had to hand it to Luke : he had handled the story with a panache that must have squashed any rumours stone-dead . |
| 4 | But Huxley said nothing about the process that might have led one branch of the primate order to develop the upright posture and the enlarged brain that are the hallmarks of the human race . |
| 5 | cut is the branch that might have grown full strait And burned is Apollo 's laurel bough ! |
| 6 | Give me something that might have caused that situation to lose confidence . |
| 7 | She nonchalantly waved a hand in a direction that might have included any tent in the camp . |
| 8 | But Mr Weston believes there 's nothing that could have prevented this accident . |
| 9 | This was obviously an issue that could have affected other EPHs , and , after consultation with the OIC and the responsible officers at the department headquarters , it was agreed to pursue the development of a user requirement that would reflect the needs of this establishment and others within the local authority as a whole . |
| 10 | It followed the discovery of a package that could have caused serious injury , writes Audrey Gillan . |
| 11 | In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support . |
| 12 | Robertson said : ‘ It was one of these matches that could have gone either way , but it 's very disappointing to lose all three sets on a 7-6 scoreline . ’ |
| 13 | The analysts were unable to identify any software available at that time that could have supported this volume and variety of files without considerable development . |
| 14 | These little flights of fancy , embellishments of Cairns-Smith 's own concern only one of several kinds of mineral ‘ life cycle ’ that could have started cumulative selection along its momentous road . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 'll tell you now , there are only three additives that could have had that effect on the car 's performance , and I 'll write them down for you now . ’ |
| 16 | The skies appeared to contain little that would have startled older astronomers , apart from a host of new observations by means of more powerful telescopes and measuring instruments ( both largely German developments ) and the use of the new technique of photography , as well as spectroscopic analysis , first applied to the light of the stars in 1861 , which was to turn out to be an enormously powerful tool of research . |
| 17 | WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ? |
| 18 | And 69 Members ( including the tellers ) voted for an amendment that would have made permanent television conditional on the provision of such a channel . |
| 19 | Last week their friends and relatives staged a demonstration alleging that police covered up evidence that would have supported that claim . |
| 20 | Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant . |
| 21 | The other key characteristic of the even-toed ungulates that would have helped this process along is the structure of the feet . |
| 22 | Melissa flushed vivid puce , threw him a look that would have had weaker men quailing , and stormed off . |
| 23 | To avoid the damage to company status that would have accompanied widespread redundancies , many regular production workers were transferred to marketing jobs , including door-to-door selling , while Sumitomo officials reorganised the company . |
| 24 | ‘ Are you going to join us ? ’ invited Eleanor , with a smile that would have charmed most men right into the palm of her hand . |
| 25 | Here was a socialist plot that would have launched General Ripper into a pre-emptive strike against Brussels . |
| 26 | The Dale Farm Olympic Youth Camp , held earlier this month in Antrim , dealt with topics that would have left old timers in sport shaking their head in disbelief . |
| 27 | The Lancaster was now the mainstay of Bomber Command , each aircraft delivering a bombload that would have needed four aircraft of 1940 vintage to have lifted it . |
| 28 | For the rest of a sunny but refreshingly cool Delhi day he buried himself in batting practice with a vigour that would have sapped any man without his phenomenal stamina . |
| 29 | Any partial parse that is rejected will be removed — thereby removing any parse that would have contained this component . |
| 30 | And since , in practice , it is through the UK that by far the largest numbers of works of art are imported and exported , it looks at though , in effect , it is going to be Britain that will have to police Italian laws . |