Example sentences of "his [noun] [modal v] have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he or his successor will have to wait a little longer for the revenue benefits which should flow from the more buoyant climate for project investment he has tried to create . |
| 2 | It is tempting to speculate that were it not for the onset of the protracted illness in February 1858 Which led to his death in September 1859 , his influence might have produced a very different outcome to the competition . |
| 3 | His assistant should have directed a scene after lunch but the director returned to find things at a stand-still . |
| 4 | Police believe a man walking his dog may have foiled a bank raid . |
| 5 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 6 | So in the long run I think his objectivity may have helped a little bit . |
| 7 | Morris is a decent , amiable guy , one of the best on the circuit , and he bit his tongue when many others in his position would have made a public scene of it . |
| 8 | Geoffrey Coombs wrote the letter after discovering that his school may have to lose a teacher if planned cuts to the education budget go ahead . |
| 9 | There was talk of the doctor saying his patient might have suffered a heart attack —' Nonsense ’ said Wilson — and then that her lungs were seized up —' They always have been , ’ fumed Wilson . |
| 10 | His trip should have taken a month . |
| 11 | Maybe his mother would have organized a dinner party , invited the girl next door to make up the numbers . |
| 12 | Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium . |
| 13 | I know that his party would have preferred a separate Bill for Scotland , introduced by the Scottish Office , but it understands that because of a shortage of time the only way to achieve its objective is for one Bill to cover England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 14 | The existence , somewhere within the Empire or on its periphery , of a lineal descent from Jesus or his family would have represented a threat to the coalescing Church hierarchy — the propagators of specifically Pauline Christianity . |
| 15 | His language would have made a Chief Petty Officer blush … |