Example sentences of "they [vb past] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such spectacular animals have obviously attracted much attention , and one might suppose that the problem of how they lived would have been satisfactorily solved long ago . |
| 2 | In most cases , the environments , climates and conditions they encountered must have been very different from what they had known in Ayrshire . |
| 3 | A rumour ran through their number that the carbon tetrachloride with which they worked would have the same effect as too intimate a connection with the servicemen on whose behalf they were working to supply the equipment . |
| 4 | Well to me when I come home of the Crimean I look at these massive tips you know in Blaenau on your left and the old on the right and that , erm if the old man that first rucked his pick and shovel or whatever trussel and or whatever they started would have known what he was starting then , it was like the Klondike of Wales . |
| 5 | Esther was treated with anti-coagulant drugs , and the doctors monitored her kidneys , which they feared might have been damaged as a complication of the toxaemia . |
| 6 | However , for one in five of the people in residential homes for a year or more , our respondents said that there were relatives who they felt might have visited more often . |
| 7 | For example , they decided to plant a Cornutus controversa rather than the light and elegant variegated form , which they felt would have looked too ‘ gardeny ’ . |
| 8 | Mackenzie had no doubt that the masks and the clothes they wore would have been discarded by now . |
| 9 | An option for those sure of the system they wanted would have been one of the many mail order suppliers like Elonex , Opus , or even a sister company of PC World , like Computers by Post ( see panel : A Brief History ) . |