Example sentences of "we [modal v] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changing dates , numbers travelling or holiday type are major changes which we may have to treat as cancellation and subsequent re-booking . |
| 2 | Rule-following is the typical mode of action by which the structure of the content of the rule is reproduced in the actions of the people , though we may have to explain their aims or the acts they intend , in other ways . |
| 3 | She thinks that we may have sent her too many book tokens , ‘ but ca n't check . |
| 4 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 5 | We may have met the murderer , yet it may equally be someone in the Tower or the city about whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We may have to ask you again . ’ |
| 7 | If the answer is ‘ no ’ then it may be that counselling has not yet reached a sufficiently advanced stage in the process , and we may have to return to earlier stages . |
| 8 | Whatever we may have felt , however , we had to be careful not to show too much dislike , because the Repubblichini were gaining strength all the time . |
| 9 | We have n't mentioned eggs to the Central Criminal Police in Helsinki but the Security Police are getting interested and we may have to give them at least some explanation of the raw egg on Kaarna 's body . |
| 10 | We may have to wait until the third one . |
| 11 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 12 | We may have to wait for much more advanced technology before we can do that . |
| 13 | it is perhaps a tribute to the resilience of both that they can come together at all : for the result , we may have to wait a few more cricket seasons . |
| 14 | As we may have to wait even until the summer , tempers may get a little tetchy , as last night 's closing session proved . |
| 15 | Our shop at work has sold out of the Torygraph today , so we may have to wait for the latest standings . |
| 16 | I think we may have to wait until Swindon … and we know when that is do n't we ; - ( |
| 17 | Secondly , if this is not possible , we may have to rely on whatever practical measures we may be able to adopt . |
| 18 | That 's why I would expect to see and we planned to some extent , we may have under-planned an increase in costs . |
| 19 | Is it possible , this is quite a bit of work we 're just about to enter into , which we may have to repeat . |
| 20 | ‘ We have new evidence and we may have to call Steffi , ’ defence lawyer Hans-Ulrich Endres said in Germany yesterday . |
| 21 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
| 22 | ‘ We may have gone too far in stressing the rights of children at the expense of upholding the responsibilities of parents and professionals in supervising them ’ , she said . |
| 23 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 24 | We may have made a mess of most of them , including parliamentary democracy , but the cricket culture we have successfully assimilated and , as Graham Gooch may tell you , perfected . |
| 25 | Disco said ‘ We may have made some mistakes in our business plan when we chose to go for growth . |
| 26 | We may have witnessed the ‘ moment ’ of the ‘ technocop ’ ( BSSRS , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | If our choice of is over-optimistic , we may have to re-instate temporarily inactive nodes . |
| 28 | In such cases , we may have cited ; collector 's name ( see Appendix ) in italic and date , author(s) and date in normal type for literature records e.g. Harrison ( 1941a ) , see appendix for bibliography , the herbarium code name for voucher specimens . |
| 29 | Using this approach we believe we may have discovered the signal . |
| 30 | We may have discovered a statistical effect but do not understand how it operates ; the brute fact that people who have experienced unemployment are more rebellious in spirit does not itself explain why this occurs ( see diagram ) . |