Example sentences of "it [modal v] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He felt that if he went there it may have generated extra publicity through TV and radio interviews which might do some good in tracing the girls , ’ said Simon . |
| 2 | It may have damaged rubber seals on the equipment , rendering them unsafe . |
| 3 | The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding . |
| 4 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 5 | For Charles it may have meant political survival , for perhaps he really would have been tonsured had he been defeated . |
| 6 | More importantly , it may have cooled Eastern Canada by 10-15C , triggering off the massive movement of Ice across the Earth . |
| 7 | The actual reasons for the popularity ( albeit relatively short-lived ) of the high-rise phase are many : it was architecturally fashionable ; it may have suited municipal prestige ; it answered immediate problems of increasing density as the big cities ran out of building land within their own boundaries ; and it met the spurious argument about saving agricultural land ( mounted by the farming lobby and the Conservative-dominated shire counties ) . |
| 8 | It must have reached thermodynamic equilibrium over the years , and represents the most stable state for this composition . |
| 9 | It must have made front-page news . |
| 10 | It must have taken supernatural greed |
| 11 | It must have had substantial embankments leading to it , for the nearby ground level is that of the line . |
| 12 | In January Pressler , sponsor of a 1985 law under which the USA had suspended economic and military aid to Pakistan in October 1990 on the grounds that it might have developed nuclear weapons [ see p. 37764 ] , had claimed in January 1992 that Pakistan could manufacture two nuclear weapons [ see p. 38726 ] , anticipating a controversial admission by Pakistan 's Foreign Affairs Secretary , Shahryar Khan , who suggested that Pakistan had the expertise to assemble one nuclear device [ see pp. 38762-63 ] . |
| 13 | To another it might have seemed utter confusion , but Chen had been born here . |
| 14 | They were already well within the shield zone and , had the barge been hostile , it could have inflicted untold damage . |
| 15 | It could have had disastrous consequences … an unwanted … ’ |
| 16 | It could have provided new nursery schools years ago as it has done elsewhere in the county . |
| 17 | It would have made good drama to pit Bernard 's projection of mass production against Laura 's fears that this would threaten to destroy the ethnic and cottage industry appeal upon which the business was based . |
| 18 | I do n't know though , it would have made great television . |
| 19 | It would have freed numerous troops from guard and patrol work . |
| 20 | It would have obliged local authorities to draw up a register of contaminated sites in their area , and supervise their clean-up . |
| 21 | It would have to spend large amounts of public money to save face . |
| 22 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 23 | A spokesman for Fife Health Board said it would have to take legal advice before any question of an appeal was considered . |
| 24 | If Labour had cut arms spending , and thrown defence workers out of a job without making plans for their redeployment , it would have suffered electoral defeat , says Gerald Kaufman . |
| 25 | The most significant objection , however , was that it would have precluded private prosecutions , the importance of which was amply illustrated several years ago by the Glasgow rape case . |
| 26 | But it would have damaged local democracy . |
| 27 | ‘ We did not want to call off the current tour because it would have created immense resentment back home among the players . |
| 28 | It would have forced new drivers to carry ‘ P ’ plates , denoting a ‘ probationary ’ driver , and restricting them to driving only low-performance cars . |
| 29 | The GPO in Leeds rang to say it would have to make special arrangements to cope with the volume , and delivered bulging sacks direct to the production team . |
| 30 | It would have meant utter devastation . ’ |