Example sentences of "that there [modal v] have been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well obviously we want the incident to be brought to an end and until it 's brought to and end you always have that fear that there might have been another tragedy . |
| 2 | She said carefully , ‘ There is , of course , another way of looking at it , if you can bear , for a moment , to push to one side the thought that there might have been any spiteful intent on my part . ’ |
| 3 | At a news conference on Aug. 11 the mayor of Shenzhen admitted that there might have been some mishandling of the issue of forms , and promised to seek out corrupt officials . |
| 4 | One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production . |
| 5 | The OFT client survey in 1985 found that organisations commissioning consulting architects were , in general , paying 10–15 per cent below the RIBA recommended scale , indicating that there may have been some small reduction in the fee income of architects after 1982 . |
| 6 | This does not necessarily mean that the genetic information has been lost , but only that there may have been some chemical modification which makes crucial genes inaccessible . |
| 7 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 8 | Although the possibility remains that there may have been some undetectable degree of portosystemic shunting , our patient did not have clinically evident portal hypertension . |
| 9 | However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them . |
| 10 | With regard to the relics , I was prepared at least to consider the possibility that there could have been some sort of automatic response in the nerves and muscle fibres triggered by the lightning . |
| 11 | That 's not to say there was n't child abuse now , I I have my own thoughts and in my own feelings feel that there could have been some child abuse especially ch sexual abuse . |
| 12 | It has not been a characteristic of the Department of Education and Science in the past few years — The Minister seems not to accept that , but if he talked to teachers about one or two recent arbitrary changes in education provision , he might well hear the view that there could have been more consultation . |
| 13 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 14 | Robert Warshow was to argue quite rightly that there must have been much vicarious pleasure in the enjoyment of these films for audiences could watch gangsters break the law , use violence , take risks , and die but were free themselves to leave the theatre safely . |
| 15 | I can also acknowledge that there must have been many women like her , all over Glasgow ; that there were then in the early 1900s when she was marrying and becoming a mother ; that there were later . |
| 16 | But we know that there must have been some irregularities , because otherwise the matter in the universe would still be perfectly uniformly distributed at the present epoch , instead of being clumped together in stars and galaxies . |
| 17 | However , in some of the cases that he mentioned it appears that there must have been some error , or they would have been dealt with more promptly . |
| 18 | You do realize though that there must have been some people who were saddened by the fact you did n't continue your pop career ? |
| 19 | Frankly , I do not believe that there should have been all this talk about a little bit of majority voting on foreign policy . |
| 20 | The fact that Scottish-sourced network TV accounted for just 1.5 per cent of the national output and 0.8 per cent of the radio programming suggested to the task force it seems , that there should have been more money available for commissioning north of the border . |