Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was the sound level on the main roads increased despite the greater concentration of traffic there ; indeed the smoother driving on these roads may have reduced the sound level of some of them , though this has yet to be verified . |
| 2 | 1.27 In any case involving serious and lasting injury , the plaintiff 's solicitors may have to instruct an accountant to calculate past and future pecuniary loss . |
| 3 | Reconstruction in Victorian times may have rendered the building even more forbidding . |
| 4 | A man who had superglue squirted in his face by muggers may have lost the sight of one eye . |
| 5 | And , to mix a metaphor , France 's lame ducks may have become an albatross around his neck . |
| 6 | If this were so then these other clubs must have breathed a sigh of relief when City 's books were not produced . |
| 7 | I appreciate that we cyclists must have caused the operation quite a bit of inconvenience , particularly the stops to get us on and off ; the problems of finding suitable lay-bys etc ; the time taken ; and the dirty work for the drivers . |
| 8 | It was alleged that the accounts should have shown a turnover of £2.19m and not £23.69m and that bills of exchange for £2.39m ( referred to as the ‘ Gimco ’ bills ) , included as ‘ bills receivable ’ , should have been treated as irrecoverable . |
| 9 | If they cause very high casualties the enemy units may have to take a panic test in the same way as for missile casualties . |
| 10 | Issues of confidentiality are often raised when receptionists are discussed , as clients may have to announce the purpose of their visit in public . |
| 11 | The builders of these pianos may have seen the need for a check , but they did not provide one that would always prevent the hammer bouncing . |
| 12 | Subsequent development of superconducting microwave cavities may have changed the situation , but perhaps of more interest is the very recent suggestion { 36 } to operate lasers in the intermediate regime the far infrared . |
| 13 | Pre-determined astrological influences may have provided the outline . |
| 14 | And talking about that — some readers may have encountered a research questionnaire in some copies of PFK recently . |
| 15 | Somehow Florian 's words must have summoned the memory of that first time they had worked together , long years ago , and that sensation of a shadow falling on her had come from the past . |
| 16 | Towards half-time , the fans must have got the feeling that Swindon were never going to score . |
| 17 | ‘ The drivers must have had a shock . |
| 18 | This is the problem of which of two innocent third parties should have to suffer the consequences . |
| 19 | Bonefish Straker reckoned that some Bahamian kids must have stolen the boat as a means of getting home , but we would never know who had wrecked her , only that they had removed a dinghy load of gear including her chronometer , sextant , VHF , barometer , spare sails , lines , fenders , and even the mattress off the starboard quarter-berth . |
| 20 | To be eligible for the DBA programme candidates must have completed an MBA or a similar degree-level qualification in management . |
| 21 | To be eligible for the DBA programme candidates must have completed an MBA ( Master of Business Administration ) or a similar degree-level qualification in management . |
| 22 | EAT pointed out that ‘ a contract of employment can not simply be silent on the place of work ’ and that ‘ the employers were in business as contractors working at different sites ; so the parties must have envisaged a degree of mobility ’ . |
| 23 | They were interspersed with rows of vines , whose high branches must have made the harvest very hard work . |
| 24 | It still seemed quite amazing the old traders should have chosen a route as totally inhospitable as this to make their crossing of the Himalayan barrier . |
| 25 | One of the guards must have made a substitution . ’ |
| 26 | In contrast , the comparative stability of , for instance , Mesozoic environments might have allowed the establishment of complex ecosystems characterized by comparatively stenotopic organisms , which would have been vulnerable to even modest environmental vicissitudes . |
| 27 | ‘ Had the current changes taken place 10 years ago , many of the kids I coached in townships could have reached the top . |
| 28 | Perhaps only expert eyes could have spotted the correlation between this spirited image and the refined clothing which passed in front . |
| 29 | That is , previous readers would have grasped the play in Freeman 's terms , in so far as they validly comprehended it , but they would not have been aware of so doing , meantime foolishly talking of it in irrelevant , non-explanatory , " folk " ways . |
| 30 | By the middle of the twelfth century , John 's French readers would have had no difficulty in making the necessary identifications : castellans and viscounts , baillis and prévôts , household officers , the clerks , knights , and chamberlains of princely courts abounded . |