Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [vb mod] have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is doubtful that the Children 's Department could have made the series anyway , as one of Sydney Newman 's other shake-ups had been to wind down this Department , dispersing much of its talent throughout the rest of the Drama Group . |
| 2 | Readers of last month 's issue will have seen the appeal for a special home . |
| 3 | Had Leeds United not removed Stuttgart , Germany 's coach might have experienced the same difficulties as Roxburgh . |
| 4 | ’ Halsey arrives at a similar finding , after rejecting the view that women 's work may have moderated the ‘ class-ridden ’ nature of British society : |
| 5 | But at least the Cain 's mob would have made the lunch where the awards were announced . |
| 6 | In a world where physiognomy was a respected practice , Leapor 's appearance may have given the Chauncys grounds to believe that the kitchen maid really was a person of no significance and that she ought to learn her station . |
| 7 | Any live electrical circuit such as contained in an emitting direction-finder or wire-tap on Quinn 's body would have caused the detector to give out a shrill ‘ whoop ’ . |
| 8 | Besides , ’ he added , descending from these dramatic heights , ‘ Matilda 's husband would have led the army . ’ |
| 9 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 10 | In 841 – 2 , the prominent position of Adalard 's brother Gerald at Lothar 's court may have eased the route to a settlement between Charles and Lothar . |
| 11 | But for the nastiness on the fourth evening , Sohail 's achievement would have crowned the 50th England-Pakistan Test encounter . |
| 12 | Mrs Cresson 's appointment may have helped the Socialists somewhat but can not have done much for the Communists . |
| 13 | The consequence of Urban 's call must have amazed the pope as it astonishes us ; for he unleashed one of the great movements of peoples of the Middle Ages . |
| 14 | I think the man in Edmund Wilson 's novel would have liked the new Hylas . |
| 15 | Stein 's book may have influenced the initial formulation of Marx 's conception of the proletariat in capitalist society ( Avineri , 1972 , pp. 53–5 ) , but whether that is so or not it did undoubtedly express in a very clear and forceful way ideas which were widely held about the dominant political issues in nineteenth-century European societies ; to such an extent that the social movement came to be largely identified , especially in Germany , with the labour movement . |
| 16 | Marcus 's hand might have gripped the handle of his glass a little more tightly , but that was all . |
| 17 | But , despite a growing public awareness , with huge crowds for the round-Britain event at most of the stage finishes , the Manchester city-centre leg which sealed Lillywhite 's win could have brought the curtain down on Britain 's best-known cycle race . |
| 18 | I see no other way by which Saint Winifred 's reliquary can have left the enclave . ’ |
| 19 | I think it likely that some enthusiastic exponent of Paris 's history must have spoken the names Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte in my hearing . |
| 20 | It was always possible that Will Sin 's death might have signalled the end for the band . |
| 21 | Something in Jack 's desperation must have moved the guard , and he turned back to his control room . |
| 22 | The jury 's note should have alerted the judge to problems that might occur . |