Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] have [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unhappily , habits which may have had some virtue in times of scarcity became vices in times of relative abundance . |
| 2 | Smaller library authorities have traditionally faced the problem of lack of staff ‘ mobility ’ , with difficulties in releasing staff from normal service points : the ability of libraries with larger establishments to release groups of staff , making internal training viable and economic , or to be able to afford external courses , has perhaps contributed to a tendency to define training largely in terms of off-the-job courses which may have discouraged some libraries from even attempting to develop a coherent overall training plan . |
| 3 | Nos. 41 and 57 which must have had some defects , were sold to T. W. Ward for scrapping at the same time . |
| 4 | One of them made a stand for repeal of the Corn Laws , which must have taken some guts in this neck of the woods . ’ |
| 5 | This speech was published in Pravda on 24 January under the title of ‘ Lenin 's Political Testament ’ , which must have rung some warning bells for many within the Party since Lenin 's actual political testament had not been published at that time . |
| 6 | It was once thought that the Chardonnay vine was brought to Champagne from Cyprus by knights returning from the Crusades , which might have provided some sort of answer , but this theory has since been discredited . |
| 7 | In Frome , as elsewhere , a large proportion of the population lacked the general state of good health which would have gone some way towards combating these killer diseases . |
| 8 | Nonni should have answered , of course , that they stayed cleaner longer , which would have made some kind of sense to my aunts . |
| 9 | News of the surrender of Paulus and 90,000 soldiers of the 6th Army — which would have provided some relief for their distraught relatives — had to be kept quiet to maintain the legend of total and selfless sacrifice for the nation in the ‘ greatest epic in German history ’ . ’ |