Example sentences of "[conj] this [modal v] have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see that this would have given you a problem finding a rhyme for ‘ by ’ , but you should have tried a bit harder . |
| 2 | One may presume that the standard of living of both these groups was above the national average , and that this could have given them better resistance to disease than their poorer neighbours . |
| 3 | However , the galaxies would also have had some small sideways velocities , and this might have made it possible for there to have been an earlier contracting phase of the universe , in which the galaxies might have come very close together but somehow managed to avoid hitting each other . |
| 4 | And this might have got them far enough and therefore they so the movement is , is not gon na go on from there , it 's stopped because the peasants have achieved everything they wanted to achieve . |
| 5 | Large figure-of-eight shields were depicted on the walls of the East Wing of the Labyrinth , possibly to indicate that the building was under divine protection ; the dappled hides of which the shields were made presumably came from the bull , the sacred beast , and this may have given them additional prophylactic value . |
| 6 | The indications are , therefore , that Offa was engaged fairly intensively against the Welsh across the first twenty-five or so years of his reign and this may have prevented him from pursuing Mercian interests in eastern and south-eastern England too vigorously before the mid-780s . |
| 7 | They were therefore keen to demonstrate the board 's usefulness tot hose they represented and this may have made them reluctant to accept a model of training which did not produce immediate and tangible results . |
| 8 | She had not told Tony either , because she knew he 'd want her to have an abortion , and she would have refused , and this would have split them up . |