Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have lose " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circumstances may change , and he may no longer want the goods and services that he has ordered , or the seller may appear to be doing a poor job , and the buyer may have lost confidence in him . |
| 2 | However , the central problem remains — cities may have lost segments of their populations , but they have been left with ever-more dependent communities . |
| 3 | A man who had superglue squirted in his face by muggers may have lost the sight of one eye . |
| 4 | Such houses may have lost their furniture and collections , but they retain remarkable plasterwork and woodwork , fine halls , staircases and saloons , marble chimneypieces and mahogany doors . |
| 5 | The adventures of Gorden Kaye , Carmen Silvera and Co must have lost something in their translation for French TV and the entire 'Allo 'Allo saga was screened in 40 days on the subscription channel Canal Plus , noted for its screening of naughty films . |
| 6 | ‘ We think these blackbirds must have lost their brood and taken on the bluetit chicks as substitutes . ’ |
| 7 | The Department of Trade and Industry may have lost millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace , a National Audit Office report is thought to have concluded . |
| 8 | The Department of Trade and Industry may have lost millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace , according to a National Audit Office report . |
| 9 | ALLEGATIONS that the Department of Trade and Industry may have lost the taxpayer millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace are to be made by the National Audit Office , Parliament 's financial watchdog . |
| 10 | There had been suggestions that Senna 's car may have lost downforce when running behind the Williams but the video clearly shows that he was n't close enough . |
| 11 | ARCO may have lost some of its glamour , but with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia performing an important task in educating a local market in international art , it is difficult to believe that the leading galleries will not return in a future year . |
| 12 | This is a delicate negotiation and if at a later stage the prospective purchaser who made the highest offer withdraws , the other parties may have lost interest or not wish to participate . |
| 13 | It is thought that the complex could have lost 1000 m by erosion and that only the basal sections of the mineralisation are preserved ( Harris and others , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | Mr Nelson responded to interventions by MPs on both sides who claimed that if the Bank of England had acted sooner fewer depositors would have lost cash . |
| 15 | Soon Berlin will become overpopulated by images , like New York and Paris , and its images will have lost their powers , save those of reflecting and recalling one another . " |
| 16 | When it is recognised that England may have lost about one-third of her population in these critical years , the lull in military activity becomes understandable . |
| 17 | Wrestling may have lost its Saturday tea time slot on the telly , but the fans still love it and they pack in to watch when there 's a show in town ; and some show it was too this week . |
| 18 | That some very large companies should have lost a great deal of money on their little experiment shows only how unwise their decision to pursue the technology was . |
| 19 | The miners might have lost a political battle , but they had not lost a war . |
| 20 | If that kind of thing had happened very often , Athens would have lost the war much sooner than she did . |
| 21 | And as it turned out , private investors in Concorde would have lost a lot of money and minded terribly . |
| 22 | ‘ Boro may have lost a couple of home games , but we always seem to be the whipping boys who allow teams to regain their form . ’ |
| 23 | Son batted at least as well as Miandad and Mujtaba , and lasted longer than Malcolm or Ramiz , but it has to be admitted that with a fifth day available , his team would have lost as surely as England did . |
| 24 | Even in the case of a regular wage-earner or salaried employee , there might be complications ; for example , the plaintiff might claim that he would have been promoted to a more remunerative post ( in which case the court must assess his prospects of promotion and award damages accordingly ) or the defendant may claim that the plaintiff 's employer had suffered severe business setbacks that necessitated redundancies and that the plaintiff would have lost his employment ( in which case the court must consider all the circumstances and award as damages what it estimates to have been the plaintiff 's net loss ) . |
| 25 | The Government points out that , for example , although this group would have lost entitlement to supplementary assistance , 1.2 million of them would have gained entitlement to standard housing benefit . |
| 26 | If Mr Hussein had the wit to get out of Kuwait before the Americans and their allies can push him out , the war would have lost its overriding purpose — and the coalition might at last have lost its cohesiveness . |
| 27 | said I was not to say sixteen not sixty ’ and in so doing will have lost the game . |
| 28 | Wimbledon must have lost about 30 balls cannoned over the stand roof . |
| 29 | Though it is plausible that Mercury and the Moon could have lost large quantities of volatiles to space it seems unlikely that this explains the extreme extent of their depletions . |
| 30 | ‘ Break the will , if you would not damn the child ’ — and damnation was a very present and real risk , in an age when most families would have lost at least one infant and often several . |