Example sentences of "[adj] people [modal v] have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you like bosomy blondes with no clothes sense I wanted to answer , but said instead : ‘ Some people might have thought that . ’ |
| 2 | By the end of the period of imperial expansion , in the middle of the twentieth century , it was widely believed that everyone in the world should be a citizen of an independent and sovereign state and should have the same rights as all the other citizens in the state , but in 1500 very few people would have understood such a notion . |
| 3 | Although responders may be biased towards independent , articulate individuals in employment , unemployed people may have had more time to reply , and this is supported by a higher response rate among women , who had a lower employment rate . |
| 4 | This system worked very slowly and made secrecy virtually impossible : it has been calculated that in all some 2,000 people may have had some influence , direct or indirect , on the functioning of this cumbersome machinery . |
| 5 | None of these people will have had any involvement in the decision to refuse your placing request . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , as members of relatively poor peasant families , and so technically landless , most of these people can have owned little or no personal property in their own right . |
| 7 | I would of thought you of all people would have done that you know ! |
| 8 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 9 | Other people could have committed these terrible crimes . |