Example sentences of "what they [modal v] have " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Forgive others for what they may have done to you in the past ; and forgive yourself as well — you have probably learned much from your mistakes . |
| 2 | If you tell somebody you can it for as little as sixteen pounds per month , guess what , that what they 'll have . |
| 3 | I do n't know what they 'll have . |
| 4 | Clearly some very large forces have disrupted the outer regions of the Solar System at some stage , or stages , in the past , but we have no idea of when or of what they might have been . |
| 5 | What they might have heard however , had they been passing ten minutes later , even above the noise of the traffic and the raging of the wind , was a roar of someone in pain , a great and agonizing cry . |
| 6 | ‘ If the Beirut police had continued to probe who knows what they might have uncovered ? |
| 7 | Now , however , the French , no matter what they might have thought of American rhetoric , could at least pretend that they took it seriously and that their actions were being taken in defence of ‘ the free world ’ . |
| 8 | We need to consider more carefully what they might have as their objectives . |
| 9 | Was I perhaps too busy noticing things that Dr Starkie was missing ( though what they might have been I ca n't for the moment think ) ? |
| 10 | Three , and Johnson 's knock-out punch — Pennant 's descriptions went as far into detail as Pennant wanted them to , and therefore they should be seen for what they are , not what they might have been : ‘ Here is a man six feet high and you are angry because he is not seven . ’ |
| 11 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 12 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 13 | The sum was to cover compensation for the notional difference between the actual cost of the house , and what they would have paid if the defect had been known beforehand — it was not to cover the cost of the repairs . |
| 14 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 15 | As late as the end of February it looked as though this was what they would have to do , and then one evening Ernest returned from a visit to Ilkley flushed with excitement . |
| 16 | Because of what they would have done to us . ’ |
| 17 | I was sep separate and apart from that , they would have to have a operating room and a dispensary there , you see that 's what they would have to have , I mean , if there gon na have P D S A premises , this is what you 've got to have , cos very often the animal has to be put under and all sorts of things , you know what I mean , it would n't be just an office with say like a physician and a tenants , it would be a case of a , a surgery and things in that nature which would be required by , er quite a number of animals . |
| 18 | ‘ Before , the tariffs did n't reflect our demand patterns , and the savings averaged have been up to 20% over what they would have been . ’ |
| 19 | She did not know what they would have said if it had been Edmund , but it was the title now which amazed them . |
| 20 | If by our standards their lot was a hard one , what they suffered inside was nothing to what they would have had to endure outside from a still brutalised populace . |
| 21 | Cos you know to look at the bottom line of total design fees against what they would have been if we 'd gone in fixed price ? |
| 22 | But even if we accept that there is a significant difference between the ‘ legal ’ and ‘ political ’ processes in the way in which decisions are reached , they would both still come firmly within the definition of power we adopted in part I , that is the ability to get others to do what you want them to , assuming this is different from what they would have done anyway , with the use or threat of sanctions if necessary . |
| 23 | The picture that we now have from Oppenheimer 's work is as follows : The gravitational field of the star changes the paths of light rays in space-time from what they would have been had the star not been present . |
| 24 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 25 | He could only speculate what they would have been like in colour . |
| 26 | Piers asked Alyssia pleasantly , and she again felt as though they were both making an enormous effort to include her in what they would have preferred to be an intimate tête-à-tête . |
| 27 | ‘ Can you imagine what they would have done to anyone who spilled the beans ? ’ |
| 28 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 29 | At least here it 's cared for , admired , which is what they would have wanted . |
| 30 | It is easy to forget that the majority of the people living on earth still lived and died where they had been born , or , more precisely , that their movements were no greater or no different from what they would have been before the Industrial Revolution . |