Example sentences of "they [modal v] have [vb pp] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his reservations outweigh his praise : ‘ They may have done some good in creating interest in two people who 've made major innovations in twentieth-century music , but they 've also given a negative impression : that the people involved in this music have serious flaws in their personalities . |
| 2 | Even on ‘ Brad ’ — not the most excitable jockey — they may have recorded some memorable figures . |
| 3 | So they may have planted some more damning ‘ evidence ’ somewhere in my flat . |
| 4 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |
| 5 | During or after such courses they may have acquired some additional external diplomas in organ-playing conducting , harmony and counterpoint . |
| 6 | They must have done some good ( Cipolla points out that their principles were the same as those of the great 19th-century sanitary reformers such as Sir Edwin Chadwick ) , and yet there seems to be no way of telling from the surviving evidence whether lives were saved as a result . |
| 7 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
| 8 | Then they will have paid some thirty years |