Example sentences of "they [vb mod] have [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 2 | Rosemary said yesterday : ‘ They were all adults in that car and any one of them could have stopped that train of events with one word . |
| 3 | ‘ None of them would have provided any kind of challenge to your tightly guarded female bastion . ’ |
| 4 | The director of the museum , Mr H. Bakker , visibly relieved to have all the originals safely returned to their shelves , told The Art Newspaper that each one of them would have provided enough money to buy a comfortable family home . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 6 | Obviously he was worried lest they may have sustained some damage by coming into contact with my nasty hard ribs . |
| 7 | The ability to learn such social skills may come slowly , but can in most cases be taught so that the child learns to behave in a socially acceptable fashion even though they may have limited academic ability . |
| 8 | They may have received some college training , participated in in-service training provided by government agencies or employers , or received no specific training for their jobs . |
| 9 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |
| 10 | All of a sudden our theories looked as though they may have had some foundation . |
| 11 | These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use . |
| 12 | They may have had some basis in reality because bones of a large primate 3.5 metres tall and weighing 800 pounds , found in caves in southern China , date back to over 300,000 years ago at the time Homo Erectus was still alive . |
| 13 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 14 | Treasury should be followed , but they may have taken that view precisely because , so far as B was concerned , it was a case of questions being put to a person who had been charged . |
| 15 | To achieve this they may have to adopt conservative technology — that is , technology that has only a fraction of the communications power of optical fibres — and to pander to the needs of a mass audience . |
| 16 | They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience . |
| 17 | Alternatively , they may have experienced some risk , but only the lower levels which characterize the flat lower part of the relationship shown in Figure 3.3 . |
| 18 | Even among perhaps a hundred girls in their year , they must have known each other quite well . |
| 19 | In the case of the innocent parties they must have known each other for at least two years . |
| 20 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 21 | With their numerical superiority , they should have shown more enterprise . |
| 22 | They should have had greater confidence in their power to heal . |
| 23 | As Mr Kinsley put it , they should have had another plank : ‘ A united Ireland through consent ’ should have been followed by ‘ cheaper air fares through the abolition of gravity ’ . |
| 24 | Why is it that they should have had more faith ? |
| 25 | All this resulted in an angry Geoff Travis ( founding supremo of Rough Trade ) saying : ‘ If anyone wants The Smiths they 'll have to give Rough Trade three million and me personally another three million . ’ |
| 26 | They 'll have to go that side . |
| 27 | That 's something that erm a great many of the multinationals will er try to get round very er and the other , other thing they 'll have to pay fair price which reflects the cost of production and the quality of the product , plus a margin for investment and development . |
| 28 | They 'll have to pay another mortgage as well . |
| 29 | They might have to wait some time … . |
| 30 | His letter to Mrs Thrale contained more detail , expressed with greater pungency , and it confirms the ‘ Dark Continent ’ feel of his experience : ‘ The Inhabitants , a very coarse tribe , ignorant of any language but earse [ sic ] , gathered so fast about us , that if we had not had Highlanders with us , they might have caused more alarm than pleasure . ’ |