Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although the recession may have hit other parts of the United Kingdom more severely , the search for a job in Northern Ireland today can still be a soul-destroying task , with vacancies often attracting hundreds of applications . |
| 2 | In addition , the current recession may have diverted the union response towards a defensive approach , while undermining the ability of unions to gain substantial increases in their involvement in decision making over new technology areas which managers may defend as their own prerogative . |
| 3 | More evidence that the recession may have bottomed out came with news of the first rise in manufacturing output in 26 months . |
| 4 | ‘ The recession may have made a difference in the sense that people are being more realistic about what they can afford , ’ said the magazine 's associate editor Fenella Willis . |
| 5 | Recession may have arrived late north of the border but economic slowdown and the election has pushed devolution or independence to the top of the business agenda and produced an anguished reaction . |
| 6 | Therefore the DOE may have to build new reactors at a cost of 8 billion dollars , and it will be ten years before these are ready . |
| 7 | Your college or lecturers may have provided you with a selected list . |
| 8 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
| 9 | Lack of support during previous clinical experience may have sapped the confidence of the learner . |
| 10 | The broad philosophy underlying the system is not at fault , although the somewhat inevitable complexity may have led to a failure to grasp implications of changes in time to prevent the odder features of instability . |
| 11 | The evidence actually tends to be ambiguous ( West 1969 ; Jones 1979b ) as indications of timberwork at the lip of the pit may be connected with the superstructure and planking in the base may have fallen from the walls or roof lining . |
| 12 | Strong attitudes may have formed by then and teaching of avoidance skills may be too late to immunise children effectively against the pressures to smoke . |
| 13 | Something , then , must be said of how men of that time regarded war , and how commonly-held attitudes may have encouraged them to take an active part in it . |
| 14 | Although this was rejected in the previous paper as putting an unacceptable limitation on taxpayers and their accountants , the responses suggest that the perceived balance of advantage may have shifted . |
| 15 | For Bill Leavis , 37 — whose home is being repossessed — the rise may have killed what hope he had . |
| 16 | Filling in the details on the marriage certificate may have proved a problem for Benjamin : his mother was now past hope in the workhouse , and his father had died when he himself was less than two years old . |
| 17 | A taxpayer may have emigrated to the Channel Islands . |
| 18 | The Listing will be prepared as specified , with any customised features the user may have selected via Option 4 Amend Configuration Setup which is described later in this manual . |
| 19 | The Listing will then be prepared as specified , with any customised features the user may have selected via Option 4 Amend Configuration Setup which is described later in this section . |
| 20 | When the user selects this option the Listing will be prepared as specified , with any customised features the user may have selected via Option 4 Amend Configuration Setup which is described later in this section . |
| 21 | Nor was the sound level on the main roads increased despite the greater concentration of traffic there ; indeed the smoother driving on these roads may have reduced the sound level of some of them , though this has yet to be verified . |
| 22 | Such clubs may have contributed to the desire for respectability of many seamen . |
| 23 | Indeed , as the price of Valois support Isabella may have offered to renounce her son 's claim to the French crown . |
| 24 | Never the less such places , including remoter rural areas , continued to grow ; decentralization may have slowed but is not yet completely out of steam . |
| 25 | Such products may have to contain specific properties ( attributes ) that match exactly the demand pattern of a specific group of customers . |
| 26 | For example , the assignee may be absolved through the operation of the bankruptcy laws : the classic case where an original lessee may have to pay . |
| 27 | The easel may have fallen but the picture somehow still holds up — just . |
| 28 | The consequence of what Nicholls may have intended as a politic and eirenical statement was suspension , degradation , and imprisonment . |
| 29 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
| 30 | The accused also might not be able to call witnesses who saw the damage-causing driver , because that driver may have terrified the witnesses to prevent them from giving evidence . |