Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] in a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At a more mature stage , the increase in sales volume should have resulted in a decline in investment intensity , while profit and ROI will increase if the investment is successful .
2 We should have knocked in a couple of goals and killed off the game . ’
3 Associates of the Institute must have served in a solicitor 's office for three years and have passed four examination papers in law and Fellows must be over 25 , have served eight years in a solicitor 's office and have passed a further three examinations from a list of subjects offered by the Institute .
4 They must have assembled in a side street and now they were here , mostly young and apparently in fairly good mood .
5 ‘ You must have put in a lot of hard work . ’
6 A man must have lurked in a car parked between two lamp standards , noting the time of arrival , the minute the curtains had been drawn at her bedroom , the second their shadows met and intertwined behind the window .
7 I 'll have finished in a couple of hours .
8 Hereabouts , Beryl Love 's ashes must have been scattered beneath a rose bush , though he knew better than to think Ernie might have invested in a memorial plaque .
9 Rab said , ‘ He might have worked in a circus . ’
10 ‘ How did ye mean , I might have worked in a circus ? ’
11 A spokeswoman for the US relief agency Care said on Nov. 12 that as many as 40 people might have died in a gunfight between guards and gunmen who ambushed a convoy of trucks heading for Baidoa north-west of Mogadishu laden with grain for starving people , forcing all but one truck to turn back .
12 People say having a baby ruins your life , and talk about what you could have done in a job and that .
13 Some of the patrol who had been in the Feelgood could have radioed in a report before things started blowing up , or maybe even got away .
14 THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday .
15 ‘ After Jaws I could have pissed in a pot and they would have paid me something , ’ he says .
16 Up to 30 victims could have died in a basement community centre directly below where the jumbo jet struck .
17 Well I would n't have thought she 'd have gone in a shop like that anyway cos there 's some more expensive stuff in there .
18 If we 'd have put in a price based on A C scaled fees , we would have overspent by a hundred and fifty five percent .
19 At least , he may have begun in a monastery , but in the event he took orders and was for years a junior pastor somewhere in Worcestershire .
20 Instead they may have formed in a manner similar to many Cordilleran batholiths , from crust that is basaltic ( density 3.0Mgm -3 ) and does not include Precambrian basement-type material .
21 George you may have seen in a wine bar , often in the company of younger lawyers ; or at the theatre , with a blonde ; or on the steps of the Garrick , with or without a blonde .
22 There was also a reduction in the number of elderly bus passenger casualties which may have resulted in a fall in the number of trips being made following the introduction of fares for concessionary travel .
23 A combination of the ideology of the market-place , public hostility to nuclear power and fears of high energy prices adding to the problems of an uncompetitive manufacturing industry may have resulted in a setback for nuclear power in Britain , but fossil fuels would no longer seem such overwhelmingly good value , according to Chris Patten , if their wider environmental costs were allocated and more fully reflected in prices .
24 In an appendix to his book , Atkinson surmises that the Horngarth may have originated in a hedge bounding the abbot 's right of way .
25 What has also developed is a kind of unofficial contest between himself and Warren Beatty which is all about women , i.e. , their famous conquests and their alleged insatiable quests to make it with the world 's most attractive women , or some alluring beauty either may have encountered in a bar or restaurant .
26 It seems to have been assumed , however , that His Majesty would have acquiesced in a suggestion that he should invite the US to train the Vietnamese army and although the suggestion , like Acheson 's message , was not carried through because of political sensitivity the US was becoming involved in the war one way and another .
27 Close support would have resulted in a try , but Alresford converted the penalty when the visitors were again guilty of kicking the ruck .
28 Just the sort of behaviour , in fact , that , had it been the work of the lads from the local council estate , would have resulted in a platoon of plods descending at great speed , batons ready in the best of LAPD fashion .
29 In the first nine regions , including the social variables would have resulted in a change of target allocations which opposed the effect of reducing the weighting of standardised mortality ratio — that is , they act in the same direction as standardised mortality ratio .
30 That important stroke was the result of Olazabal and Stewart narrowly missing birdie putts on the 18th which would have resulted in a play-off .
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