Example sentences of "[subord] they [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of the meteorites were found on rocky terrain where they may have fallen directly or been deposited by melted ice . |
| 2 | Looms are most frequently indicated by loom-weights , annular in form , for weighing down the warp threads on upright looms ; they are occasionally found in rows in the base of sunken buildings where they may have fallen or been taken off the loom , or originally stacked in a column . |
| 3 | Social workers need to weigh up its importance alongside other issues where they may have a greater contribution . |
| 4 | 7.4 Employees and their managers must complete this form and send it to the Employees Relations Officer at Department Headquarters , , not only in circumstances in which the employee has been physically hurt but also where they may have been abused or threatened in any way or subjected to racial or sexual harassment . |
| 5 | Where they 'll have the usual bad weather so that they can go on complaining . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , even the most basic repairs had been neglected for many years before that , so that structural problems developed where they might have been avoided . |
| 7 | Such routes should increase in density towards the town centre , where they might have weather-protection canopies and be served by what Ramsay has called ‘ pedestrian service points ’ . |
| 8 | Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines . |
| 9 | Any idea where they might have gone ? ’ |
| 10 | In the 18th century , examples were always set where they would have the greatest effect on the most travellers . |
| 11 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 12 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd where they would have had access to MS-DOS . |
| 13 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd , where they would have had access to MS-DOS , although Phoenix was one of the pioneers of the concept of the clean room , where no-one that has any inside knowledge of the code being emulated is allowed to come into contact with the developers of the emulation . |
| 14 | She had seen their craft land only minutes earlier and had placed herself deliberately here where they would have to pass her . |
| 15 | They were shown to a little table , where they would have to sit side by side . |
| 16 | It had a bright plastic deep-fried atmosphere and menu but the alternative as Maxim had pointed out was a long slow dinner at some hotel where they would have made themselves conspicuous by not , repeat not , ordering a couple of bottles of wine . |
| 17 | They tried in vain to get the men transferred to a German Prisoner of War camp , where they would have been well treated . |
| 18 | She took him to her room where they could have privacy . |
| 19 | Many hundred meeting places were at ancient sites in the landscape like barrows or stones , where they could have taken place for millennia , while others were at places which had other functions as well , such as centres of royal or ecclesiastical estates which coincided with hundredal arrangements . |
| 20 | Where they could have taken genes from an old disease-resistant variety and inserted them into a disease-vulnerable , high-yielding new variety , the old genes can no longer be found . |
| 21 | Not content with this , it is the German government which is demanding that further political power be transferred to the Community level , especially the European Parliament , where they will have the strongest presence , in virtue of the fact that Germany is now 50% more populous than any other European country . |
| 22 | The Taiwanese will be billeted at the Porirua Peace College from August 20th to September 6th where they will have intensive training sessions all day and watch videos of the All Blacks all night . |
| 23 | I think that , all temptations to the contrary aside , the best place for the Emperor and the standard bearer is right in the middle of your line where they will have the greatest effect on the largest number of troops . |
| 24 | In ideal circumstances a son or daughter may be able to provide a granny flat or at least a bedsitting-room which the older person can call their own and where they can have some personal furniture and possessions as well as privacy . |
| 25 | Except they 'll have had a four course meal to eat . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's that Midwestern winter as does it ; I was there in February once I nearly turned up my toes then except they 'd have snapped off … still it 's nice to have a banker dying early . ’ |
| 27 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 28 | Once a child has been placed , workers will need to be guided by the new parents and the child about the how and the when of contact and , of course , once adoption or custodianship orders are made , social workers no longer have the right to give directions , although they may have an important role , when asked , in providing a conciliation service between custodians or adopters and natural parents , if there are disagreements about contact . |
| 29 | Many humans have taken ‘ objects ’ , that is , in this case , people , of the same sex , and although they may have some experience of heterosexual intercourse , they may prefer and may frequently perform homosexual acts . |
| 30 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |