Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun pl] [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highlight is the week-old calves — they 're encouraged to let the calves lick their fingers , and shown how the farmer reproduces their mother 's teats , because the milk the calves would otherwise have ends up in the supermarket . |
| 2 | On an index-linked annuity the rates may typically have fallen from 9 per cent to 8 per cent . |
| 3 | The Church in Abyssinia had been rescued from extinction with the help of the Portuguese : without their intervention the Abyssinians might well have been absorbed into the adjacent Muslim world . |
| 4 | Had we taken their advice the nurses would never have received what has proved for them their biggest breakthrough since the war . |
| 5 | After a period of use the heads may well have picked up sufficient debris from the disk surface to prevent a reliable reading of the magnetic information on the disk . |
| 6 | So if you think back now at times when you 've done a training session and you thought I ca n't understand why that did n't work , you know I worked really hard this may actually reveal something to you you did work really hard at it and you put it together just the way that you would like to receive it , but it 's not it just the way the delegates would actually have liked to have seen it done . |
| 7 | In his time the Jews must often have felt their culture and civilization was in danger of being swallowed up by Roman domination . |
| 8 | In fact the calls could also have been made by the Seychelles bulbul , a brown thrush-like bird with an orange-red beak which we saw feeding high up in the palms in several places . |