Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] have [vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the operation was deferred until July , Eliot spent a period in hospital on account of an attack of his chest complaint , which may have owed its onset on this occasion to the emotional blow that he had received . |
| 2 | In Asia , such ‘ cultigens ’ include the coconut , which may have had its origin on the Great Barrier Reef , and the mango , the talipot palm , Corypha umbraculifera , its leaves used as writing paper , and the betel nut with narcotic fruits . |
| 3 | But because the law as an ass , overs were arbitrarily taken from their batsmen and games which should have gone their way were lost . |
| 4 | The Report concluded : ‘ Moreover in recent years there was a substantial increase in Argentina 's military strengths in all three of its armed services , which must have increased its confidence in its ability to occupy the Islands and retain them . ’ |
| 5 | I found among my mother 's papers when she died a letter from my grandfather which must have wrung her heart for years after his death : ‘ … ca n't you spare a moment to write to your poor old Dad … ‘ |
| 6 | The book is highly priced despite Bass 's sponsorship ( cash which must have made its way into the pockets of publisher and author ) . |
| 7 | For his final years in office , Warwick was known to be out of favour with the king , something which must have reduced his authority within the duchy . |
| 8 | For his final years in office , Warwick was known to be out of favour with the king , something which must have reduced his authority within the duchy . |
| 9 | While the village unit remained small there was less chance of a decision 's being imposed by the community 's more influential members , and in any case the imposition of status and ranking tended to reduce the passive acceptance of inferiority which might have attended its acquisition through achievement or wealth . |
| 10 | The miracle , which might have saved her life and converted the heathen , was not granted . |
| 11 | It is a Romantic version of modernism which is viewed as genuinely progressive and critical , rather than merely the means by which capitalism destroyed any tradition which might have opposed its hegemony . |
| 12 | True , she had been a baby at the time of the war , but her family had moved out to the countryside and their locality had never been troubled by bombing or anything else which might have caused her phobia . |
| 13 | Other times she would go down to the galley to prepare a meal , which might have taken her mind off the water but rarely did . |
| 14 | Although he never published the systematic economic treatise which might have established his reputation , Barton 's closely argued pamphlets were influential . |
| 15 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour . |
| 16 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour and asked that Dodman be sent for psychiatric help . |
| 17 | Myra told me that , until the previous year , she would have thought that nothing whatsoever had occurred in her childhood which could have caused her revulsion to physical contact . |
| 18 | An unusual building of the 1960s , radical alterations which would have destroyed its character |
| 19 | When choosing dowel at any place other than a kite store which would have selected its stock , rotate the spar between thumb and forefinger of one hand while resting the dowel in the other hand and check that the spar is straight . |
| 20 | All I can say is that there was a young couple putting on a display in an Abbeyhill park recently which would have made my auld granny 's hair curl ! |
| 21 | The OPEC talks ran into early resistance from Saudi Arabia , which demanded that all OPEC members should accept a pro rata production cut which would be calculated in relation to their current actual output — a move which would have left its share of OPEC output undiminished . |
| 22 | It looked a classic case for the Independent Living Fund ( before new claims were abolished by the government in December 1992 ) to pay for a package of care and support which would have helped her cope . |
| 23 | Burun 's chief wife was small and slim , handsome in the way that unremarkable women sometimes are when they have matured past the need for beauty , and the red-gold of her hair was as yet unmarred by the silver which would have betrayed her age . |
| 24 | He 'd taken the drug a square of paper like this , which would have distorted his perception and could have accentuated suicidal feelings . |
| 25 | " We may regret that the Commissioners did not pursue a more spirited foreign policy and visit the United States of America , where , beyond a doubt , they would have seen results which would have qualified their condemnation of the combined system . |
| 26 | There was another aspect of all this which will have heightened his sense of duty and commitment : in Judaism there is a law of redemption which must be applied to the first-born of any family . |
| 27 | Even if historians are specifically interested in form , it is likely to be the history of forms , or the development of styles which will have attracted their attention . |