Example sentences of "they [modal v] have [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may have lost touch with their friends and have to start again to build up a new social circle . |
| 2 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |
| 3 | Sprague de Camp also says that the sharpness of the Tyrannosaurus ’ teeth hints that they may have eaten meat softened by decomposition . |
| 4 | They may have survived County Louth but Malcolm 's driving is an entirely different matter . |
| 5 | They may have obtained support , in manpower , money and material , from all three ; but they themselves were essentially political in orientation . |
| 6 | Furthermore , they may have to accept work further away from home than they are accustomed to travelling , which may in itself present child care problems . |
| 7 | My young son put them into a barrelling machine to clean them , so they may have changed colour as a result . |
| 8 | Alternatively , they may have found objective setting a dull ritual that did n't make any difference to anything . |
| 9 | But , you know , a lot of those repeats get huge audiences , and th they must have repeated Dad 's Army , and 'Ello , 'Ello about fourteen hundred times , but they still get enormous ratings , those programmes . |
| 10 | ‘ It is difficult to make the transition because the normal prerequisite of a finance director is that they must have had board level experience and as a financial controller reporting to a director it 's very difficult to get that . ’ |
| 11 | They must have had transport . |
| 12 | They must have forgotten Hoover . |
| 13 | They must have put money on his reaching 50 . |
| 14 | They must have got news at Forteviot . ’ |
| 15 | They should have flown north in March , but perhaps they were n't paying attention when the others left , maybe deep in conversation or looking the other way . |
| 16 | If you ask me , they should have incorporated Catharism into their own theology , it would have filled in a lot of holes … ’ |
| 17 | They tended to face north and west when they should have faced south and east , because they were there to be looked at , not to be looked from , and the windows of the mansion faced in the contrary direction . |
| 18 | No doubt it will be said that the British public have said chemist when they should have said pharmacist for so long that it would be impossible to change , but the obvious answer to that is that decimalisation presented little problem . |
| 19 | But they should have used ethylene glycol and not water since the bumpouses were a very very new phenomenon and the little bumpouses melted and formed an impenetrable crust in that area which , from that time forth , served to remind the silly , pea-brained man species that new thinking is needed for new times . |
| 20 | They should have taken account of all representations and consulted adequately . |
| 21 | Maybe they should have had foresight and er this would n't have happened at Bilsthorpe . |
| 22 | The pressure will be on them , as if they do n't beat us they 'll have blown promotion to the Premier League . |
| 23 | Some of the Filbert Street faithful reckon they 'll have clinched promotion by then too . |
| 24 | There 's nothing important in any of these locations , and if the adventurers fancy a bath they 'll have to fetch water for themselves from the well outside ( location 8 ) and heat it somehow . |
| 25 | ‘ They 'll have finished tea by now , wo n't they ? ’ |
| 26 | I 'm growing them for the wedding , they 'll have to get cut because I break them . |
| 27 | Had the Conservatives lost another general election they might have lost credibility as a potential party of government , and this could well have damaged their role as the integrating force of the political right . |
| 28 | At first Bell and her supervisor , Antony Hewish , thought they might have made contact with an alien civilization in the galaxy ! |
| 29 | A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches . |
| 30 | A quiet , unassuming man , Geoffrey Thomas indulged a great fondness for nature and wildlife in the countryside around his house in Kent , and read so voraciously that his wife feared they might have to move house to gain access to a new public library . |