Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The reason why trade has risen , one reason is because , erm , transport costs have declined in real terms and secondly w , why can you think of anything else that may have increased trade in manufac manufactured goods ?
2 650–60 may have left Conall Crandomna , Domnall Brecc 's brother , joint king of Dál Riata , anxious to preserve good relations with Oswiu , who was , after all , his brother 's protégé .
3 That must 've hit Walsall Wood as a mining village .
4 I do n't believe So that must have died generation .
5 Erm , but er it 's , it 's quite wrong that pensioners and er , the poorest should have to take cuts again erm when there 's people on such high salaries .
6 Of course , and I hesitate to broach the matter , the English may have arranged Alexander III 's death but to what advantage ?
7 There is no reason to believe that the incomers brought any large amount of capital with them , although some may have had help at the start from their families .
8 The firmness of the houses has not changed ; a few may have become offices , or been sub-divided into what must surely be splendid apartments , but the depth of the society persists .
9 This may have strengthened Gloucester 's hand in the region , but it is not in itself an adequate explanation of his arrival there .
10 This may have strengthened Gloucester 's hand in the region , but it is not in itself an adequate explanation of his arrival there .
11 The pottery figures show the smiths wearing the conical cap ( pilleus ) , also worn by Dolichenus , and this may have given Richmond the idea that the Corbridge figures were of this eastern god .
12 While this may have formed part of the rationale for the application of natural justice , the major reason for the development of the doctrine was the protection of property rights and interests akin thereto .
13 Oswald and ( probably ) his brother , Oswiu , were the sons of Aethelfrith by Acha , sister of Eadwine ( HE III , 6 ) , and this may have facilitated acceptance of Oswald as king among the Deirans and the restoration of an overkingship , but the deaths of many of the Deiran royal family will have left a political vacuum at the heart of the Deiran kingdom which can not have been immediately filled by Aethelfrith 's sons .
14 The survey was linked to a distance learning package accredited for postgraduate allowance , and this may have encouraged practitioners with varying degrees of expertise in asthma management to participate .
15 This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years .
16 He had always thought he had no illusions about the artificiality of people 's reactions to him , but some must have taken root unaware .
17 There was every reason , apart from the unexpectedness of the news , why this should have given Eliot the greatest distress .
18 This must have started life as a cottage — the front room which had been turned into the shop was only about ten feet by eight feet .
19 All this must have taken shape before there were any houses on the scene .
20 However , the right of establishment does not imply only physical location in the country of establishment , but also that this must have taken place with a view to pursuing an economic activity .
21 This must have left Carshalton depôt with insufficient vehicles to cover emergencies and on 9 September , following damage by flooding , several of the remaining trolleybuses were put out of action .
22 I 'm not joking , this must have had collars and right mm , !
23 This must have encouraged shoppers to restrict their high street visits to as few individual trips as possible .
24 From the title , some might have expected Lilley to give an indication of his hopes for revival in the near future .
25 For example , a student chosen might have had to overcome some specific learning difficulty to gain success in modules ; another might have achieved success despite little previous exposure to formal further education .
26 This might have made sense when all Council decisions that mattered were passed on the basis of unanimity .
27 His parent did not force him to attend and he now feels this might have brought scorn from other members of the community .
28 This might have included cave dwelling , although there is no way of knowing .
29 I wanted a wet/dry type of trickle filter for use with the vat mainly because I did not want water retained in the filter for any length of time — this could have caused weight problems .
30 Jasper had several times mentioned Muriel , and this could have given Alice a clue , if her dislike of Muriel did not always rise promptly in her , preventing her from hearing what she might have done .
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