Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the problems must therefore have been solved in the past and the experience thus gathered can be reapplied with small variations . |
| 2 | Their relationships and marriage alliances did not conduce to peace , but they commonly gave the warfare of the period the appearance of civil war , even though the rank and file of the soldiers can hardly have felt the bond which united the leaders on both sides . |
| 3 | Each accident was assessed also for its potential large-scale consequences , and it was found that 7% of the accidents could potentially have led to major accidents . |
| 4 | Some of the eurypterids may even have made tentative excursions on to the land . |
| 5 | So one of the boys could well have imagined that the Crumwallises knocked it back enthusiastically in the privacy of their home . |
| 6 | Of course , this particular instance was treated as a Venetian holiday by the press , and no reader of the reports would probably have cared had the whole wedding party ended up in the canal . |
| 7 | Surely neither of the Meadowses could possibly have missed the deep sardonic note in his voice ? |
| 8 | It is ironic both that the new architecture of the masses should eventually have ended the dominance of great houses , and that more ordinary men and women should have become protagonists in the novel , for these were not the developments , either in life or in art , that Disraeli had in mind . |
| 9 | There is still the missing ingredient of ‘ power ’ : the nature of the replicators must somehow have influenced their own likelihood of being replicated . |
| 10 | The existing users of the buildings would also have to be rehoused , although some of the taxmen are already set to move to Nottingham under the Civil Service 's dispersal programme . |
| 11 | Depletion of the rainforests can also have other climatic effects , such as altering air and temperature patterns . |
| 12 | And if the tape recorder had n't been rolling with me playing around on guitar , some of the songs would never have happened ; I would never have remembered them . |