Example sentences of "[n mass] who [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | And no doubt other dangerous folk who might have been known to me . |
| 2 | ‘ People who would have spat in our faces three years before were now clapping our backs . |
| 3 | The people who would have suffered most from Mr Moore 's penal approach are the 1.6 million children in one parent families . |
| 4 | However , notwithstanding his extensive programme , no courses longer than the Terminal type were arranged , possibly because student groups were not formed in the villages of people who would have accepted responsibility to stimulate , organise and sustain local demand . |
| 5 | By the mid-1980s there were very few people who would have pretended to understand all the ramifications of Grant Related Expenditure Assessments , rate-capping or capital controls . |
| 6 | ‘ We have a very large number of people who 've been on our books for between a year and 18 months and they are quality staff , people who would have been snapped up within 10 days , three years ago . ’ |
| 7 | Its critics claim that any assessment based on arbitrary demographic characteristics rules out a substantial number of people who would have been accepted on the basis of their individual performance , and is therefore unfair to them . |
| 8 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 9 | It required fewer people who could pass the port in the right way , and more people who would have the drive , energy , initiative and sheer guts actually to make money for the shareholders and themselves in a recessionary environment . |
| 10 | ONE by one , the people who would have governed a post-apartheid South Africa have been selected for murder . |
| 11 | He described his co-workers as ‘ the people who would have been poets in the sixties and they 're looking at computers as their medium of expression rather than language ’ ( Jobs , 1984 : 18 ) . |
| 12 | Those are the people who would have benefited or taken in to account should the Queen have died without a will . |
| 13 | In other words , the same people who would have emigrated on their own will be assisted by government programmes . |
| 14 | Absolutely — and it is the Secretary of State 's Department that is guilty of taking benefits away from millions of people who would have benefited if the Labour Government 's policies had been maintained over the past 12 years by this tawdry , rotten Tory Government . |
| 15 | It is understood that the target groups for an extension of compulsion could be 18-24- year-olds and single people who would have benefits withdrawn if they refused a range of options of schemes offered to those out of work . |
| 16 | I was meaning to ask about the would you you would n't have any idea the number of people who would have been in your your early days here ? |
| 17 | We , the people who 'll have the next generation of children , we want a better world than the one we 've got from all of you ! |
| 18 | What with the Santa Cruz Operation 's new president Lars Turndal being the new kid on the block and a stranger to most of the people who 'll have to deal with him , we thought we 'd give a little of his background . |
| 19 | Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , ’ Sven Hjerson went on , ‘ it is in fact , I am thinking , that all those people who might have given that not very well balanced car the one push needed have also possible reasons for wishing the death of Lord Woodleigh . |
| 21 | It will mean that a very substantial number of people who might have left Hong Kong will stay . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , I can think of one or two people who might have wanted to harm her , as you suggest . |
| 23 | Meanwhile many intelligent deaf people who might have gone into education , but now finding these opportunities non-existent because of the Education Act of 1893 which had implemented the Royal Commission for the Education of the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb 's recommendations , were now turning to missioner positions in deaf societies and institutes for a living . |
| 24 | In the 1990s there were many more at hand to help them escape , people who might have been more profitably employed than in these negative exercises if there had been fewer who needed their services . |
| 25 | The reports we commissioned on group discussions and depth interviews with people who might have been particularly vulnerable to the risk of serious credit problems ( Appendix II ) , and on the experience of clients of the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( Appendix III ) , were designed to throw some light on such problems . |
| 26 | They offended some of the more straight-laced among the constructors — people who might have been more inclined to help the Fittipaldis if they kept better company — and generally put a question mark over the Fittipaldi team : how it was surviving , with whose backing , by what means . |
| 27 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 28 | I would be happy to hear from any priest who feels he would like to volunteer for five years or from suitably qualified people who might have some skill to offer . |
| 29 | Michael Banks had been a man who inspired love , but even so Charles could produce quite a list of people who might have had a grudge against him . |
| 30 | One of the saddest aspects of this issue is the heavy strains and burdens placed on elderly people who might have expected their last years to be more enjoyable . |