Example sentences of "these [modal v] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protests like these may have won a first round victory for the hospital , but campaigners say the fight continues . |
| 2 | The few references and scraps of information we have about the very early recruits suggests that these may have included more girls of middle-class origin and certainly some from orphanages and boarding-schools — girls sometimes from middle-class families fallen on hard times . |
| 3 | Please check the flight timings on your tickets carefully as these may have changed since our brochure was published . |
| 4 | These must have lain freely on the surface of the sediment . |
| 5 | In June the Bernheim Jeune Gallery showed seventy-nine of Cézanne 's watercolours and in October the Salon d'Automne featured a restrospective of his work , the largest to date , which included some of the iridescent , highly abstracted late landscapes and some ‘ unfinished ’ paintings — paintings in which patches of bare canvas were retained ; these must have allowed painters further insights into Cézanne 's thought processes and working methods . |
| 6 | These should have specialised sections that would agitate on different issues and among different sections of the population . |
| 7 | So these should have had price increases . |
| 8 | The survey upon which these findings were based did not provide sufficient details of personal characteristics for us to be able to take account of the influences certain of these might have exerted . |
| 9 | Mary Daly 's indictment of male power and brutality similarly allows little space for a consideration of the patterns of women 's lives , or the strengths and capacities that these might have enabled them to develop . |
| 10 | During this time I was able to develop some understanding of the sorts of backgrounds my interviewees came from , what their hopes , fears , values and experiences of life had been like before they joined the movement and how these might have changed since . |
| 11 | There seems no doubt that molecules such as these could have formed in the seas of the earth at the very beginning of its history . |
| 12 | Ideological and philosophical issues receive inadequate attention and yet these could have helped define the common context ( or , perhaps , the contrasting contexts ) in which art and science were pursued . |
| 13 | In subsequent work ( Neal 1981 , 21-34 ) an indication as to other possible aids to design has been given : these could have comprised some of the contents of a pattern book ( or what might , more accurately , be called a " manual " ) . |
| 14 | ‘ These would have blown up the entire gold and diamond market , ’ the bomb squad chief , Nandkumar Chowgule , told reporters after the area had been cleared . |
| 15 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 16 | These would have extended the county boroughs of Cardiff and Newport ; made minor adjustments to the boundaries of Swansea ; demoted Merthyr Tydfil to a non-county borough ; and reduced the number of counties to seven . |
| 17 | Senescence in industrialized human societies has become so apparent because of the removal of most extrinsic causes of death and lowered fertility ; in the circumstances in which the life history evolved , these would have predominated , and few individuals would have lived long enough to show evidence of ageing . |
| 18 | Until yesterday , these would have seen Barnes deployed on one flank with Rocastle 's defensive awareness earning him a ninth cap at Waddle 's expense on the other . |
| 19 | Perceptions such as these would have affected general conduct and attitude . |
| 20 | These would have bound him to support majority decisions , even where these decisions were not accepted by the ILP Group . |
| 21 | Deleted from the guidelines were certain provisions which had appeared in previous drafts but which had been strongly criticized by media executives as amounting to censorship ; these would have prohibited reporters from approaching military officials unannounced , and banned dissemination of pictures showing troops in agony or severe shock . |
| 22 | A recalcitrant refrigerator , an aching back , an eye stinging with pain , a wailing cat , any of these would have sapped a lesser woman 's determination . |
| 23 | These would have evolved in such a way that the displayer would have appeared bigger and more frightening . |
| 24 | These would have claimed much of Miller 's attention , but his expertise would have been in great demand over the cultivation of rare fruits . |
| 25 | Some of these would have included the suggestion that sleeping prone might not be safe for babies . |
| 26 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 27 | It 's thought that a lot of the spending money for these would have come from redundancy payments when people lost their jobs . |
| 28 | These would have contained garden-like areas for growing vegetables , herbs for flavouring , dyes and medicines , fruit trees and space for hives — honey being an important commodity and mentioned as goods rendered from some estates . |
| 29 | Most of these would have qualified even under the Webbs ' strict insistence that only " continuous associations " qualified as trade unions . |
| 30 | Three-quarters of these would have brought Larkin in above Thompson FHE ( Un ) who was elected fifth , with Overend ( VUPP ) as runner-up instead of being elected sixth . |