Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the recession may have hit other parts of the United Kingdom more severely , the search for a job in Northern Ireland today can still be a soul-destroying task , with vacancies often attracting hundreds of applications . |
| 2 | Tinbergen argued that rapid cultural change may have pushed human systems into an environment which is no longer that to which the species has adapted through evolution . |
| 3 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 4 | On the other hand , policymaking is relatively less complex at the local level , and in many authorities a committee chairman may have acquired considerable specialist knowledge by holding the chairmanship — or serving on the committee concerned-for many years . |
| 5 | It is unsurprising that the cinema should have sought legal parity with the theatre on questions of obscenity , which it did in a petition forwarded to the Home Secretary by the BBFC in 1977 on behalf of the Cinema Consultative Committee , which comprised delegates from the film industry and from all the associations of local licensing authorities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | In addition , personnel working in this field must have received adequate training in the assessment procedure , and in the management of interpersonal and family problems . |
| 7 | Even if such inscriptions were non-existent rather than just rare , it would be no more than commonsense to guess that generals in the field must have enjoyed great executive latitude , especially in wartime — more latitude than was compatible with the exercise of detailed control , and so of full sovereignty , by the Assembly . |
| 8 | Other businesses may obtain their terms from a trade association or similar organisation , in which case the association may have taken legal advice in the preparation of the terms . |
| 9 | ‘ It is possible the killer may have had local knowledge , ’ said Det Supt Cole . |
| 10 | Ecgberht may have received wide support in Kent and can not necessarily be regarded as wholly dependent on Offa for his kingship . |
| 11 | The high rate of diagnostic revision ( 25% ) based on this independent , blind histopathological review may have overdiagnosed definite Crohn 's disease but in many the final diagnosis was uncertain and labelled as indeterminate colitis . |
| 12 | The body politic may have undergone radical surgery and it may have aged considerably , but it has continued to endure . |
| 13 | His analysis was a taste of what is to come from the Left : Labour should have promised drastic defence cuts to pay for its spending plans . |
| 14 | The next part of the story is pure circumstance but the effect might have saved poor Mr Cubbage 's life . |
| 15 | A senior London police officer was attempting to attract black recruits into the police force , whilst denying that racism in the force might have deterred black people from joining in the past : ‘ Racism in the force is not the main reason for black people preferring not to apply . |
| 16 | Its collapse could have had serious roll-on effects on the finances of these airports , and the relevant local authorities stepped in . |
| 17 | David Blunkett , another member of the national executive , told a conference fringe rally organised by the soft-left Labour Coordinating Committee that Labour would have to find additional funds for its social programme by cutting £9.5bn from defence spending over five years , and raising the level of taxation on the rich . |
| 18 | Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting . |
| 19 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 20 | More full-time farmers than part-time farmers in the study would have liked extra land . |
| 21 | Since incorporation would have required parliamentary approval , and alignment not much less , the scheme was impractical , but it was typical of the man . |
| 22 | Party strategists believe that Labour will have to embrace proportional representation and form some kind of alliance with the Liberal Democrats to provide a credible challenge to the Conservatives . |
| 23 | Party strategists believe that Labour will have to embrace proportional representation and form some kind of alliance with the Liberal Democrats to provide a credible challenge to the Conservatives . |
| 24 | Although class 1c agents such as encainide and flecainide can have pronounced proarrhythmic actions , torsades de pointes is uncommon . |
| 25 | Baker-style rescheduling and new money might have cut short-term financing needs , but could make no difference in the medium term . |
| 26 | But some of the alleged failures may turn out to be actual failures , and the Institute may have to take disciplinary action against the firms in question . |
| 27 | Though 21 of 52 ( 40% ) of these referrals were not made by participating general practitioners and a proportion may have constituted unnecessary duplication of care , most were referred appropriately as part of the shared care arrangements . |
| 28 | Changes in the transactions costs incurred on investment in the UK provide a second means by which financial deregulation may have influenced inward investment . |
| 29 | As is often the case with such surveys , no clear consensus emerged over many of the questions and some apparently contradictory points were made ( ‘ Not enough homework ’ ; ‘ too heavy a coursework load ’ ) but the whole exercise must have yielded useful information for teachers and a welcome awareness among parents that here is an open school much concerned about the quality of experience it offers its students and responsive to the views of all partners in the education service . |
| 30 | At the time she had had Peter in her tummy and a fall could have had serious consequences for both herself and the unborn baby . |