Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is curious and yet inevitable that you , of all people , should have dared write a piece in the NewSS claiming to shed crocodile tears for the alleged disunity among , or between , the opportunistically ‘ revived ’ banners of the ARA and the ANL . |
| 2 | In many respects the Red Wedge Tour must have helped alleviate some of the frustration and downright weirdness that was bubbling away in Smithdom . |
| 3 | F 5 ; not surprisingly since he probably grew up in Persian-held Ionia , which as with Herodotus , Ephorus and Herakleides must have helped determine his literary bent . ) |
| 4 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 5 | Proposals on the minimum wage and protection of workers ' rights ( through endorsement of the EC 's Social Chapter for example ) if implemented might have helped prevent exploitation of the " peripheral " workforce although the market advantage of the knowledge workers would continue . |
| 6 | The OAU stated publicly what has been the worry among many developing countries : it welcomed rapprochement between East and West but warned that funds which might have helped alleviate poverty in Africa may be diverted to central Europe . |
| 7 | Now police believe a National register of DNA samples might have helped catch the man , but they admit there are problems . |
| 8 | Now police believe a National register of DNA samples might have helped catch the man , but they admit there are problems . |
| 9 | ‘ Somebody might have let slip something , they would n't have let loose every detail . ’ |
| 10 | He did n't need to fulfil a specific commission and could have made do with what he already had , but he wanted something better . |
| 11 | He spoke out on the last day of Labour 's Scottish conference in Inverness , which ended with the party in better spirits than organisers could have dared hope even a week ago . |
| 12 | It is surprising how little the poet 's father shared in these games and sports , which could have helped form a natural bridge of intimacy with his six sons as they began to go their several ways . |
| 13 | It could have helped clarify a number of issues at an early stage and possibly saved people a lot of money and anguish . ’ |
| 14 | Ideological and philosophical issues receive inadequate attention and yet these could have helped define the common context ( or , perhaps , the contrasting contexts ) in which art and science were pursued . |
| 15 | Dorothy One had died for something she believed in ( though Margaret was not quite sure what it was ) , but she 'd have helped keep Dorothy Two if she 'd lived . |
| 16 | That may , in some respects , be healthy but it also has to be said that those reticences marked a division between private and public spheres which may have made compromise possible . |
| 17 | An accomplished 165 may have helped set up Northamptonshire 's comprehensive thwacking of Glamorgan , but the vice-captain 's overall form had not been all he would have wished , a reflection , perhaps , of a disenchanted soul . |
| 18 | The FCC 's cleverly contrived technical contest may have helped accelerate the move to digital broadcasting , but that may not be of much help to the terrestrial TV broadcasters it had hoped to escort into the digital age , nor give much of an edge to American equipment makers . |
| 19 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 20 | This may have helped draw on the Enemy 's hasty stroke , thinks Gandalf at III , 88 . |
| 21 | The political culture may have helped generate problems of political structure , but Britain 's problems , I will argue , are not essentially political : they are economic and social . |
| 22 | The Whitney retrospective may have helped sell three good Basquiats at Sotheby 's , though two difficult , insubstantial pieces failed at Christie 's . |
| 23 | In addition to his military household , rewarded with " annual gifts " of clothes and equipment , Charles had to field armies for the sort of warfare that did not appeal much to Frankish nobles — namely , defensive or non-expansionist war ; and here the availability of cash stipends may have helped recruit professional warriors ( including Vikings ) . |
| 24 | But the SMMT was heartened by good attendances at the Birmingham Motor Show last month and this renewed interest in the industry may have helped boost the October sales . |
| 25 | It may have helped reduce eighteenth-century mortality ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 26 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 27 | She used to sit behind her desk looking very prim and proper , and er I do n't , I do n't quite honestly think we would 've dared say anything to her at all . |
| 28 | There was no way we would have dared attempt these routes had they sported their current designations then . |
| 29 | This unexpected find would have helped pay for the dead work of the shaft sinking . |