Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] have [vb pp] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
| 2 | The scholastics would have recognized some such distinction . |
| 3 | But for her to speak at all suggests that the discovery may have released some few small drops of adrenalin into her blood , too . |
| 4 | Topaz could have expressed some brief regret , or simply shrugged in helplessness , but she did n't . |
| 5 | So Balder Head must have had some architectural significance or other , although I doubt if anyone in the dale realized it . |
| 6 | To use the army as strike-breakers for the first time since Franco ( and Spain 's universally detested military service would have caused some intersting tests of loyalty ) would have provoked a confrontation with an unclear outcome for both sides . |
| 7 | From the lists I made , I came to feel that European culture in the last millennium may have had some 100 real heroes , the mastersingers of Europe , of which I have tried to identify half . |
| 8 | Stuck 's first collection must have attracted some adverse criticism , for his later collections ( 1708 , 1711 , 1714 ) take more account of the French language and are much more conservative in their key plans . |
| 9 | Whereas the tax relief would have affected some 78,000,000 families , the proposed increases would have applied to only around 1,000,000 couples and individuals . |
| 10 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |
| 11 | On mobilization , the first-line army for an offensive operation would have numbered some 761,000 men , with a second line of about 1 million . |
| 12 | Blanche sensed his dislike must have had some personal grounds . |
| 13 | It is also worth checking the text itself as the change of display may have forced some unexpected re-composition . |