Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some may have taken part-time jobs so that they could cope with the increasing demands at home , some may never have worked at all outside the home . |
| 2 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 3 | It also seems probable that cells from inflamed epithelium ( colitis ) will be more prone to toxicity from cytokines than will cells from control tissue and this may have introduced artefactual abnormalities in dispersed colitic cells . |
| 4 | Nor can one tell the normal value of a mine , although some must have given considerable yields — Wolsey , as bishop of Durham , let out one at a rent of £180 a year ( 82 , pp.164–5 ) . |
| 5 | Because of intended aerobatic flight , the refueller had been instructed to leave the tank two gallons short of maximum fuel when refuelling a Tiger Moth ; this should have provided sufficient fuel for two hours 35 minutes flying . |
| 6 | For anyone else this might have seemed ample funds for an expedition , but for Gould , the cautious man of commerce , even this nest-egg had to be used sparingly . |
| 7 | Assistant mechanic Jonas found a chip pan on fire in the galley and put it out — this could have caused serious problems for the salvage attempt by a tug on the way from Lowestoft . |
| 8 | It was just that this could have had political implications . ’ |
| 9 | This could have had unfortunate consequences , so we started up the motor and went on towards the beach . |
| 10 | The Company had hoped to be allowed to run cars across in service , but this would have necessitated Parliamentary Powers , which were not needed if a line was never to be used for passenger carrying . |
| 11 | Japan had few reserves to continue the struggle , though to have admitted this would have courted political disaster . |
| 12 | This would have increased after-tax profits of £193m for 1991 to £310m for the group 's life companies . |
| 13 | If Vance had been able to convince 17 Politburo members that a far-reaching restructuring of strategic forces was in the Soviet interest , this would have become Soviet policy . |
| 14 | Failure to do this would have created serious problems for both the generation of a reliable multiplier factor and comparability between the two samples . |
| 15 | This would have commanded high interest rates but these might , on precedent , have been subsequently lowered . |
| 16 | This would have meant extra guards were needed on the camps , and would have forced the British soliders to use force . |
| 17 | This would have encouraged chemical interaction between the gases of the Earth 's early atmosphere to form organic molecules — although , to be sure , it would also have tended to break those molecules apart once they had formed ! |
| 18 | Lubin comments that ‘ Shyness probably made concrete political action impossible , for this would have required direct action with other people . |
| 19 | This would have left visuo-spatial functions intact in the right whereas in women language could have become established in both hemispheres , crowding most specialised visuo-spatial ability . |
| 20 | Most women gain most of their knowledge of the criminal justice process from the media since few will have attended actual court cases or learnt from friends of what actually happens in the criminal justice system . |
| 21 | All trained staff in the clinical field have a responsibility to teach , although few will have had formal preparation for this . |
| 22 | Perceptions such as these would have affected general conduct and attitude . |
| 23 | These would have contained garden-like areas for growing vegetables , herbs for flavouring , dyes and medicines , fruit trees and space for hives — honey being an important commodity and mentioned as goods rendered from some estates . |
| 24 | It will still not preclude farmers from designing development plans but these will have to take full account of conservation requirements and implications under other Articles of the proposed Regulation . |
| 25 | All would have provided suitable topics . |
| 26 | Many will have committed sexual offences that other prisoners find abhorrent ; some will have been informers who helped the police in the hope of obtaining a shorter sentence and still others may have built up debts inside prison that they can not repay . |
| 27 | Each would have specified permitted levels of chemical and other pollutants and target levels of oxygen . |
| 28 | The in-house cinema ( ‘ where they used to watch porn movies , ’ speculate the new occupiers ) , complete with massive Soviet projectors , is now used for film shows that would have caused apoplectic fits among the old inhabitants . |
| 29 | Of course that would have to mean Open Software Foundation founders Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and IBM Corp taking part . |
| 30 | Of course that would have to mean Open Software Foundation founders Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and IBM Corp taking part . |