Example sentences of "this [modal v] have be [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its lateral line should enable it to survive and eat , but even this may have been affected if it is bumping into things . |
| 2 | All have been affected by the Post-glacial rise of sea level , but in the second class this may have been accentuated or nullified by local land movements . |
| 3 | This might have been regarded as making the local manager 's job more straightforward but as one set of pressures was removed others made themselves felt . |
| 4 | Had the boys boarded a train to Carlisle and caused damage there , this might have been regarded as too remote . |
| 5 | This might have been expected since the total amount of reactant gases shown by the equation is four moles whereas only three moles of gaseous product are formed . |
| 6 | Neither abolition nor emancipation therefore produced a satisfactory capitalist solution of ‘ the agrarian problem ’ , and it is doubtful whether this could have been achieved unless the conditions for the development of a capitalist agriculture were already present , as in the areas on the margins of the slave/serf economy such as Texas or ( in Europe ) Bohemia and parts of Hungary . |
| 7 | If , instead , he had replied by a whole sentence — say — ‘ Mr Smith 's away this week , gone up North to see his old mother ’ this would have been understood whereas a proper name ( Edinburgh ) out of the blue and with no helpful context is n't easy ! |