Example sentences of "[that] we [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 've been some fears expressed that we might have an occupation force in Panama , ’ said Senate minority leader Mr Bob Dole . |
| 2 | All of us had been promoted out of any efficiency that we might have had . |
| 3 | So undeserving of it was Jacob , that we might have accused God then of arbitrary favour , worse , of siding with the oppressor instead of the oppressed , as once he seemed to side with Sarah and Abraham against Hagar and Ishmael . |
| 4 | It occurred to me that we might have been equally misinformed about other things the Germans did . |
| 5 | ‘ We believe that we might have had it this year were it not for the election . ’ |
| 6 | Ca n't we at least suppose that we might have the same experience on the Sun ? ’ |
| 7 | Ca n't we at least suppose that we might have the same experience on the Sun ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Are you thinking about the fact that we might have been murdered ourselves last night ? ’ |
| 9 | This seems close to what Williams says , in the above quotation , that rights are to be understood as ‘ assuring expectations ’ of which animals are incapable ( which is not to deny that we might have such expectations concerning the treatment of animals ) : |
| 10 | It is therefore allowed , although e was an effect , that we might have got sc along with some extraordinary event or condition , and not got e . |
| 11 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 12 | I think it 's a sad indictment of our so called democratic system when they are afraid of having an elected head of state , that they are afraid that we might have a dictator ! |
| 13 | The indignation within the Motability community at this venomous attack was more gratifying than any form of recognition that we might have obtained . |
| 14 | By this I mean that we might have a complete , consistent , and unified theory of the physical interactions that would describe all possible observations . |
| 15 | The UK government has suggested that universities should be separated and funded on the basis of their research capability , so that we might have ‘ research ’ universities and ‘ teaching ’ universities . |
| 16 | We seek to rid ourselves of the awful thought that we might have some responsibility for what has happened . |
| 17 | You might put it this way : We are human beings , not because we have souls but because we are able to conceive of the possibility that we might have souls . |
| 18 | ‘ It sounds , ’ Husband said , ‘ as if our soldier friend has probably destroyed anything that we might have to show for months of expensive — |
| 19 | Erm , now you could n't do that with that and that sounds intuitively like the kind of expression that we might have , just because I ca n't think of one does n't mean that |
| 20 | Does the following sound an impossible target for the first five years of our society , that we might have a BCR day ( week ? ) on another railway , hiring one of its locomotives and some of its stock , but running good old BCR style mixed trains including at least one goods truck owned and restored by us and painted in BCR livery ? |
| 21 | This research was stimulated by a recognition that we might have a rare opportunity , through being granted privileged access to assault victims in a busy hospital accident and emergency department , to study serious assaults which may or may not have been reported to the police and , therefore , the definition of which as crimes is still open to question . |
| 22 | His purpose is that we might have the gifts of the spirit and develop the fruit of the spirit . |
| 23 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 24 | I mean it has been referred to that we might have to do them again , I sincerely hope we do n't have to go through this process again . |
| 25 | Within each block , the four treatments are allocated to plots at random so that we might have : For this layout , the treatment comparisons within a block are less subject to unwanted external variation ( both suspected and unknown ) . |
| 26 | Promotions of labour-saving gadgets encourage us to save time on household chores , so that we 'll have more time for leisure and recreation . |
| 27 | Well if you can get that we 'll have a look at that and I want you to try some of these equations in it . |
| 28 | I 'm going to tell Sebastian before I leave that we 'll have to cool things . |
| 29 | by no means perfect and there are some loopholes in it that we 'll have a look at in a moment . |
| 30 | But it 's the group that have decided that we 'll have eighty five items . |