Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb mod] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LATE-NIGHT revellers who may have seen a vicious assault have ignored police appeals to come forward . |
| 2 | I would appeal to anyone who may have found a Suunto-ML wrist computer on site to contact me or Caernarfon police station . |
| 3 | But Jan Peerce makes a very coarse and unromantic Alfredo , and Licia Albanese , who might have made a good shot at the role of Violetta under more sympathetic direction , sounds particularly nervous and unsettled . |
| 4 | Ministers who might have resented a particular proposal were seen by Mr Major privately before the relevant meeting and ‘ squared ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Is there anybody who might have had a serious grudge against your father ? ’ |
| 6 | He came out of it as someone who might have committed a slight indiscretion , no more , and a heterosexual one at that . |
| 7 | Certain staff who might have shown a real aptitude for broadcasting found themselves discouraged by civil service rules on promotion and pay . |
| 8 | He did n't look the kind of guy who could have taken a long prison sentence . |
| 9 | ONE by one , the people who would have governed a post-apartheid South Africa have been selected for murder . |
| 10 | Such solutions are drastic , and could lead to the wrongful conviction of someone in an oppressive relationship who would have to incriminate a feared partner in order to clear herself , or someone who did not have the capacity to understand the need to offer evidence of their innocence . |
| 11 | This village blacksmith was not a ‘ mighty man ’ at all ; in fact , he was much smaller than Micky , his twelve-year-old son , who would have made a good model for the Fat Boy in the Pickwick Papers . |
| 12 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 13 | McGregor wrote that ‘ since no important decision ever pleases everyone in the organisation , he must also absorb the displeasures , and sometimes severe hostility , of those who would have taken a different course ’ . |
| 14 | Paying tribute , the Prime Minister said she was a ‘ trusted adviser who would have had a wonderful career . ’ |
| 15 | She is the one who will have devoted the greater part of her married life to the job of child-raising and who will have invested a large part of herself in the children . |
| 16 | Those who will have to work a little bit harder to reach their full potential , coming from east of the Rockies where rugby is a spring and summer game , are Alberta scrum-half Tom Liddle , Newfoundland flanker or no.8 Rod Snow and the Ontario trio of Charron , Lougheed and Scott MacKinnon , a fullback or centre and brother of Gordon . |
| 17 | The Justices of the Forest were for the most part important men who can have devoted a limited amount of time to their Forest duties . |