Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circumstances may change , and he may no longer want the goods and services that he has ordered , or the seller may appear to be doing a poor job , and the buyer may have lost confidence in him . |
| 2 | Although some kink in the confluence of timing and temperament may have robbed Wallace of his posthumous fame , it may also have robbed the rest of us , through this century of science , of a broader view of the hidden forces of life . |
| 3 | Promotions to abbacies and bishoprics were probably often the subject of competition between important families , and canvassing and intrigue may have taken place both locally and at court . |
| 4 | The noise may have unsettled Kyle , for he bogeyed the 8th . |
| 5 | Some prisoners who would not normally have received the death sentence may have fallen victim to political interference in the judicial process . |
| 6 | Attempts in the past to implement change may have left scars , and the spirit of trust , confidence and cooperation necessary to implement radical change will be difficult to achieve . |
| 7 | Drug may have saved coma girl |
| 8 | Living in close proximity in such a small cottage may have caused difficulties ; one gathers that Coleridge 's domestic arrangements included benevolent toleration of mice , whom he had not the heart to kill . |
| 9 | ‘ The recession must have affected people but you can get assistance from the DSS ( Department of Social Security ) , who are very helpful . ’ |
| 10 | The change must have taken place long before Ediacaran times for when those rocks were deposited the fundamental invertebrate divisions were already established . |
| 11 | What he perceived was rather the state of the doctor and he inferred from this that a change must have taken place at some time before that moment . |
| 12 | Shit should have bought shares should n't I . |
| 13 | These set the minimum amount of capital ( free assets , or the amount by which an insurers ' assets exceed the actuarial calculation of its liabilities ) that an insurer must have to reassure customers and regulators that it can meet its liabilities . |
| 14 | The play must have struck Eliot as fitting in perfectly with intichiuma ceremonies and with the general idea of drama evolving from primitive ritual . |
| 15 | Wall Street was rocked by the news and Disney shares fell 4.3 per cent by the end of trading as rumours spread that the stock may have reached peak price . |
| 16 | It is likely that he will still need the list of solicitors but , by not immediately closing the interview , the adviser may have explored issues which are important , which John may not have thought worth telling the solicitor . |
| 17 | Labour may have stolen England 's emblem , but its policies do n't smell of roses . |
| 18 | The popular image of the absent-minded , long-haired professor may have given way in recent years to the well-suited , urbane telly-don , but college teachers are still often represented as colourful , eccentric and even controversial figures : exotic creatures , trapped in a forlorn struggle between an unfeeling college bureaucracy on the one hand and an unthinking — nay , an invincible — student ignorance on the other . |
| 19 | While patronage may have damaged Duck 's talent , ‘ The Thresher 's Labour ’ demonstrated that the experience of labour itself could be the basis of poetry which appealed beyond the very specific concerns of most contemporary occupational verse . |
| 20 | There had been suggestions that Senna 's car may have lost downforce when running behind the Williams but the video clearly shows that he was n't close enough . |
| 21 | The coroner Nicholas Gardner said the Metro driver 's attempts to regain control of her car may have made matters worse . |
| 22 | The practitioner may have to balance safety against economy , speed against certainty , appearance against strength , effect against side-effect ; and there is no easy answer . |
| 23 | Would we not have heard again a hubbub of outrage , complaints that the Coalition ought to have flattened Baghdad when they 'd had the chance , a chorus of demands that Saddam be taken out now … |
| 24 | Their need for legitimation may have benefited lawyer D 's other clients . |
| 25 | Although the requirement for a double diary entry may have increased errors , our data showed that patients are more likely to make retrospective entries in the evening and are more likely to miss data in the evening than in the morning , but errors in data entry ( inferred from discrepancies between the two forms of entry ) are no more likely in the evening than the morning . |
| 26 | Firminus , comes of the Auvergne , tried to prevent his name going forward , but Avitus reached the court of king Sigibert , and was consecrated in Metz , although according to the canons the ceremony should have taken place in Clermont . |
| 27 | Furthermore there is no qualifying period during which the applicant must have received maintenance from the deceased . |
| 28 | I think my transsexual obsession must have triggered puberty when I could not reconcile the fact of my being a girl with my intense crushes on other girls . |
| 29 | ‘ The club should have issued vouchers without publicising them . |
| 30 | German rate inaction left many high street retailers weaker as a cut might have influenced UK rates . |