Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may only have seen the property once , and for all sorts of emotive reasons , may have fallen in love with the place . |
| 2 | ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy . |
| 3 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 4 | But Mr Lawson and the Bank may only have bought a week for sterling . |
| 5 | The editor might also have noted the colloquial sense of roaming around which the verb shatatsya carries , for this may perhaps have encouraged the switch from Shaposhnikov to Shatov as the novel began to define itself . |
| 6 | It is ironic both that the new architecture of the masses should eventually have ended the dominance of great houses , and that more ordinary men and women should have become protagonists in the novel , for these were not the developments , either in life or in art , that Disraeli had in mind . |
| 7 | As the car 's lights disappeared round the corner , it occurred to Charles that he should perhaps have asked the man to wait . |
| 8 | ‘ We should perhaps have asked the Trees the best path to take , ’ said Floy , presently . |
| 9 | Robert Penfold 's advocacy of pulsed controllers for model railways in the April issue should perhaps have contained a motor health warning ! |
| 10 | Arguably if you need more power later on you should only have to replace the chip , not the whole machine . |
| 11 | We should all have received a report from Roger about one or two accidents that have occurred on sites . |
| 12 | Most of them are concerned with admissibility of evidence , which is not in issue here ; and none , aside from those already mentioned , arose where in the face of clear and general language it was contended that Parliament must nevertheless have intended the words of the statute to have only a limited effect . |
| 13 | Mineral extraction and quarrying were the only other enterprises producing for more than immediate local demand , though practical considerations must generally have limited the distances stone could be transported . |
| 14 | Afterwards she thought that , of course she must already have formulated the plan somewhere at the back of her mind ; but at the time it burst upon her with all the excitement of a vision . |
| 15 | Imperial Guards must already have encountered the rebel Planetary Defence Force — or the other way about . |
| 16 | Conversely Mortimer should not have invoked the earls to revolt against the king . |
| 17 | Many people in the black community , people that I had thought of as friends , said to me that I should not have worn the flag that night . |
| 18 | It should not have become a synonym for adoption . |
| 19 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 20 | Well , both of them should have been wearing their life jackets before they were over water , and X should not have stowed the dinghy in the locker area when he could have kept it closer to hand on one of the spare rear seats . |
| 21 | You should not have to return the watch to the manufacturers . |
| 22 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 23 | The use of concomitant pyloroplasty ( no longer recommended ) and retention of a relatively small-bore sound in the oesophagus during fundoplication may have been contributing factors in some postoperative conditions such as dysphagia and gastritis , but should not have influenced the antireflux efficacy of fundoplication . |
| 24 | I will go on to argue that the finding as to ‘ maleness ’ , though regrettable , should not have precluded a finding that there was a marriage . |
| 25 | ‘ The wind was fresh at the time but should not have given the trawler any problems , ’ Mr Ellis said . |
| 26 | No one can remove that personal responsibility from you , and if you do not discharge it ( through fear of a powerful chairman , or personal ambition , or even seeking an easy life ) , you should not have accepted the job in the first place . |
| 27 | I do n't know whether it was mental or pyschological , but Watford should not have caused the problems they did . |
| 28 | They should not have disputed the decision as they did , and any suggestion that this was an early ingredient in the Pakistanis ' exasperation deserves little sympathy . |
| 29 | So far as possible , in the collection of all field data , the reader should be able to check the validity of reporting and should not have to trust the reporter too much . |
| 30 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |