Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instability was greatest at periods of high sedimentation at the onset of deglaciation , when ice sheets reached or may even have extended beyond the shelf break . |
| 2 | A beat that sets out for a destination may have to renavigate on the way or may even have to change destination . |
| 3 | These may or may not have significance ; what needs to be certain is that descriptions are accurate , for if they are wrong , deductions from them will be valueless . |
| 4 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 5 | There may or may not have been divisions of opinion in the ranks of the progressive Alliance , but the Conservatives were all too evidently engaged in fratricidal strife . |
| 6 | The problem of fascist sympathies among the ranks of MI5 at the outset of the war is entirely ignored , as is the removal in 1940 of its founder and director , Sir Vernon Kell , which may or may not have been connected with that issue . |
| 7 | The reply may or may not have been arrogant , but , more significantly , it carried within itself the fatality to come . |
| 8 | The lack of a licence in Barlow Clowes ' early years may or may not have made a difference to the way investors ' funds were handled during that time . |
| 9 | Jim Morrison died in Paris on July 7 , 1971 , of what may or may not have been an overdose . |
| 10 | So , although a wild horse would continually roam in search of food , a domestic horse may not , or may not have the opportunity to do so . |
| 11 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 12 | Angela Brickell 's death may or may not have been , but the attack on Harry was vastly thought out . ’ |
| 13 | Wanton and murderess she may or may not have been . |
| 14 | The police took what may or may not have been three different names and addresses and cautioned the men . |
| 15 | Many pieces of information given to the reader are subsequently contradicted , many of the events recounted are then said not to have happened , there are conversations which may or may not have taken place and characters are themselves then someone else , or themselves and someone else . |
| 16 | In others , however , fee-payers ( who may or may not have been among ‘ the gifted and the intellectual ’ ) existed alongside those who had won places in the eleven-plus competition . |
| 17 | Socrates may or may not have a gene or two alive in the world today , as G. C. Williams has remarked , but who cares ? |
| 18 | One unique feature of man , which may or may not have evolved memically ; is his capacity for conscious foresight . |
| 19 | This may or may not have been true , though knowing Henry II , it may well have been . |
| 20 | We need therefore to consider policies which integrate older workers into society , either in terms of maintaining them in the workplace or facilitating options which develop new social roles which may or may not have a work element . |
| 21 | Therefore when he refers to the sphere of circulation here he does not have in mind market relations , but rather a system of planned production and exchange , which may or may not have included some form of monetary accounting . |
| 22 | That may or may not have been . |
| 23 | She may or may not have had a longstanding paranoid personality ; that 's hard for relatives to cope with , but not necessarily pathological . ’ |
| 24 | This decision may or may not have been correct , but it was understandable . |
| 25 | It makes no difference that the parent may not have wished to go ( during the war ) or may not have had a choice ( death ) . |
| 26 | Benjamin James Titford may or may not have made his fair share of mistakes as a young teacher ; but when the chance came of running his own show in a conducive environment , he took it with alacrity . |
| 27 | My actions may or may not have been right and , as I said in court , I wish with hindsight that I had thought more about the late take-up . |
| 28 | This may or may not have been true , but we were the most critical and non-conformist . |
| 29 | AFTER THEY HAD WRITTEN ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ , a plugger called Guy Holmes — who may or may not have heard the song working out at the Putney gym , the Dance Attic , which Fred managed and Richard worked at — got interested . |
| 30 | These include tigers and other dangerous creatures that may or may not have material form at any given time , ghosts , as well as ‘ spirits ’ — the waterfall mara ’ that causes tuberculosis ; the tree mara ’ that kills a person 's ‘ soul ’ by breaking its neck , bringing sickness and death in a single day ; the hilltop mara ’ that twists and shrivels limbs , and so on . |