Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Depending on the particular system used , patients would only be permitted to seek treatment from ‘ approved ’ or ‘ contracted ’ suppliers or would have to get prior agreement from their home authority to seek treatment elsewhere .
2 As an owner you generally know these symptoms or will have taken veterinary advice .
3 Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw .
4 All these species have been affected by oil pollution which , while not always severe , is nearly always present and may have caused marked declines of some species in recent years .
5 Driver-only buses have become the norm , and may have increased privatised profitability , but they 've decreased traffic flow .
6 Police believe the unit wandered openly in the Deal area and may have visited local pubs .
7 ‘ It is unfortunate that so little is known of Carlisle , Luguvalium ( Carvetiorum ? ) , although it seems to have grown to considerable size and may have exceeded 70 acres ( 28 ha ) . ’
8 But for Britain , WEU was perhaps satisfactory : it allowed for the possibility of British association with the leaders of integration , if necessary , and may have permitted some form of British influence upon the latter .
9 In Berry 's case , English law did certainly provide for one level of appeal to the Court of Appeal and may have provided one level of appeal beyond that .
10 The desire to create a pseudo-history of the movement 's afterlife may be good for business , and may have provided extra material for the book ( I refer to the Boston text , see pp. 10–13 ) but it is not in keeping with the purer aims of the Situationists outlined elsewhere in these and other texts .
11 or parents , and may have had this information included in lessons at school , relatively few do anything about it .
12 Other parents , however , may want their child to attend a special school and may have had positive information about children with visual handicap who have been happy and successful in these schools .
13 Dr Lee has recently pointed out that although the resources which went into the exporting industries could have been channelled elsewhere , the return would almost certainly have been less : " An eighteenth-century economy without resource to trade would have been smaller , less diversified and must have generated less growth even than the modest rate of increase actually achieved . "
14 I was pretty mad and must have sounded that way .
15 ‘ He was yelling out in terror and must have run 50 yards before two blokes caught him and rolled him about the pavement to put the flames out . ’
16 Despite her handicaps Helen was an attractive , intelligent woman , and must have had many suitors .
17 They could ; and should have won this match and the players have to look to themselves .
18 If a local authority behaved as the Government have over the sale of public assets , its members would be disqualified and taken before the district auditor and might have to spend some time in gaol — and quite right , too .
19 Leicestershire enter the table , and might have qualified last year if an adjustment had been made then to bring their figures into line with practices adopted by all the other counties .
20 A much more significant straw , however , was the direct military involvement in August 1964 of United States military forces in Vietnam , which led to Australian and New Zealand military contingents being provided and might have attracted British troops as well , if they had not already been committed in Borneo and the Aden Protectorates .
21 Cheshire police needed 26 more civilian staff to deal with the extra workload and might have to cut uniformed officers jobs as a result .
22 The Yorkes lived next door to the Shergolds and might have gleaned some scraps of information that he could wheedle out of Harriet .
23 Chief Justice William Rehnquist explained the Supreme Court ruling on the basis that , while the abduction might be " shocking " and might have violated international law , it was not prohibited either by the extradition treaty or by the US constitution .
24 A number of grounds in the Republic have floodlight facilities and could have offered day-night matches which were such a successful feature of the competition in Australiasia .
25 He 'd taken the drug a square of paper like this , which would have distorted his perception and could have accentuated suicidal feelings .
26 The atmosphere thus acts as a ‘ bottleneck ’ , and could have retained sufficient heat of formation for it to account for the present excess radiation .
27 In 1588 , Sir John Popham was Attorney General and could have brought great influence to bear .
28 Fighting back tears , his 50-year-old widow Sam said : ‘ He gave his life to British Airways and could have expected some support from them .
29 At Halling Manor Works , a horse weighing nearly a ton fell into one of these shutes and would have fallen 40 feet into the river had not the shutter been down .
30 The thing is that I could n't cancel the draft — it cost £6.50 to get it , and would have cost another £12.00 to get it annulled .
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