Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [adv] have [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes in the management team and consequent changes in investment policy which may or may not have yielded benefits at the time of the dividend increase . |
| 2 | And the Bank of England 's ease in selling so many gilt stocks early yesterday is a reminder of just how great the budget deficit remains and how much more public borrowing must follow — taking cash that might otherwise have bought shares . |
| 3 | To deal with this , a group of merchants who wanted to trade in a particular part of the world would ask the monarch for a charter allowing them a monopoly of bringing goods from their chosen region into England , giving them rights to defend themselves against pirates and bandits with their own armed force , and letting them settle legal problems that would otherwise have to wait years until they got back to England . |
| 4 | The cancerous masses developed at a rate that would normally have taken months and years . |
| 5 | The additional space thus provided would not only have allowed the reproduction of documents of a useful length , but would also have avoided anomalies such as the absence of any statements by the Third Marquis of Salisbury , Stanley Baldwin , Walter Elliot , Noel Skelton , the ‘ Mannheim Group ’ , and other leading Conservative politicians and publicists of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |