Example sentences of "that [modal v] have [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so the telegram was sent , a come-uppance which deserves quotation as an act that may have saved the world from early extinction by sheer megalomania : ‘ I deeply regret that it becomes my duty as president and Commander-in-Chief of the United States military forces to replace you as Supreme Commander , Allied Powers ; Commander-in-Chief , United Nations Command ; Commander-in-Chief , Far East ; and Commanding General , U. S. Army Far East . |
| 2 | Equally it may depend on the social factors that may have determined the decoration used ; the earlier brooches may be designed to satisfy a society in which there is less variation in social identity than later . |
| 3 | They will examine the way election polling was done and factors that may have influenced the findings , such as the declining proportion of people willing to answer interviewers ' questions . |
| 4 | The Foreign Office drafted and sent a personal reply form Churchill that may have given the Shah way amusement as well as comfort " … while we do not interfere in Persian politics we should be very sorry to see the Shah driven out . |
| 5 | Chartism , although defeated , endowed sections of the working class with a sense of class identity that may have lacked a vision of the totality of class relationships , but was sufficiently powerful to define broad boundaries of interest . |
| 6 | Reasons that should have determined the authority 's directive but failed to do so can not be thought to belong to the justification of the directive . |
| 7 | United passed the ball sweetly between each other to continue to create chances that should have put the game beyond Brentford , and it was no surprise when , in the 63rd minute , they created a fine goal that stretched Brentford to breaking point . |
| 8 | He gave a shriek that should have woken the village ghosts , and bolted down the road , shivering puddles into glittering clouds around him . |
| 9 | In a sequence of thuds , the galley fired into the round ship , her shot exploding into the broad flush planks of the prow ; arching over the tumble-home curve that should have protected the gunners . |
| 10 | His bone-structure showed strength , yet his mouth had a masculine sensuality that should have carried a health warning . |
| 11 | The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket . |
| 12 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |
| 13 | And it says in th , in , as you read through the record , as soon as he saw him he shouted with a shout that must have surprised the passers by , because , he hollered out to him he called out excitedly to him ! |
| 14 | Lord Wyatt , the chairman , was about the only one not interviewed in two inserts that must have delighted the Tote 's public relations people . |
| 15 | Amidst the verbiage and jargon of these investigations were conclusions that must have reflected the fears of many respectable Americans , but what is interesting is that the reports were not entirely negative about the movies as such . |
| 16 | The establishment has taken over and the more wrong it has proved , the more it has stifled the dissent that might have saved the economy . |
| 17 | Romantic poets were keen to vindicate Chatterton , and to cherish his untimely death as that of a sacrificial victim : here was a spilling of young blood that might have watered the purlieus of a church . |
| 18 | Johnson comments , ‘ To make this way , the rock has been hewn to a level with labour that might have broken the perseverance of a Roman legion . ’ |
| 19 | The only budget announcement that might have influenced the mid-Staffordshire result was the doubling of the savings limit for those entitled to claim poll-tax relief . |
| 20 | So far , no one has found a possible candidate for the supernova that might have represented the Star of Bethlehem . |
| 21 | Yet it even made a suggestion to CSM that might have made a dent in its sales graph . |
| 22 | She was a very tall and very fair and dazzlingly beautiful creature whose skin was goose-pimpled under the impact of McIllvanney 's air conditioning which was set to a level that might have made a penguin shiver . |
| 23 | Ilya Ehrenburg knew Modi better than most ; he said , ‘ Of course he could have painted portraits that might have pleased the critics and buyers … |
| 24 | There was no sign of any sort of weapon , either a firearm related to the cartridges , or the kind of heavy instrument that might have caused the injury from which the man had apparently died . |
| 25 | It was a wind that might have swept the fields of mortality for a thousand centuries . |
| 26 | The public schools , the Stock Exchange , and the so-called democracy of parliamentary procedure became objects of his attack in a manner that might have warmed the heart of a good Communist . |
| 27 | In Hanover , Sewell was introduced to Professor Havemann , whose plans to visit England in 1777 and in 1796 unfortunately came to nothing ( the missing link , possibly , in a chain that might have set the Hanover veterinary school , founded in 1788 , rather than Lyons or Alfort as an immediate model for the London Veterinary College ) . |
| 28 | It is a perspective that Freeman in his criticism of Mead totally failed to appreciate , and one that might have reduced the savagery of his attack . |
| 29 | Every surface that might have had a fingerprint was wiped , every trace they could think of expunged . |
| 30 | The visitors bounced back with Mitchell heading wide at the far post and Cormac O'Donnell bursting into the box where Mark Donnelly 's tackle ended the danger in circumstances that might have brought a spot kick . |