Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their friends ' eyes it would have been unreasonably proprietorial of him not to have released her with a minimum of fuss . |
| 2 | And if this book sparks interest in the reader to make his own contribution towards achieving these goals it will have been especially successful . ’ |
| 3 | This emphasizes the intentional nature of the curriculum , and the various forms and settings it can have . |
| 4 | In other words it would have to be job beneficial , it would have to be of strategic importance and and all those other things we 've been discussing . |
| 5 | For this recession to equal the previous record of 16 months it would have to drag on for another six months . |
| 6 | Estimates suggest that the peasantry as a whole was giving up over one-third of its total rice output for much of the period , but in some areas it may have been much higher . |
| 7 | As the date itself might suggest , it was amongst the worst directions it could have gone . |
| 8 | All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf . |
| 9 | Only last year organizations such as CAMRA helped to get S & N's bid for J. Cameron ( Hartlepool ) referred to the Commission on the grounds that if S & N acquired Cameron 's pubs it would have a monopoly of outlets in the North East . |
| 10 | You 've got er , all the tones it should have but , the overall crispness , sharpness I 'm afraid , is lost . |
| 11 | Francoise Jacquier , waiting in the Caribbean port of Limon for the start of the race , seemed more worried about the effects it would have on her . |
| 12 | And whatever other effects it may have had , Communist rule meant that the country was immune to the MacDonalds culture which has swept away the individuality of so many countries . |
| 13 | A motion to monitor the effects it will have on people that we are responsible for . |
| 14 | He could still not understand what was happening to him , or the far-reaching effects it must have upon his life . |
| 15 | If the upper part had been true as to intervals it would have been in B major , and of course the tonal results would have been chaotic : organ Whether intervals are true or false does not matter to listeners , who can not easily distinguish the difference . |
| 16 | In certain circumstances it might have been preferable for a beneficiary to have a real action , in which case he would press for interpretation as a legacy . |
| 17 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 18 | In these circumstances it would have been astonishing if fundholding had not produced improvements in services for patients . |
| 19 | Roman 's interruption held a note of such ferocious anger that in any other circumstances it would have stopped her in her tracks . |
| 20 | In other circumstances it would have been comic . |
| 21 | But thanks to their 28 victories in the constituencies the Conservatives would have had nine seats ( 28 minus 19 ) too many , whilst from the pool of ten additional seats it would have been impossible to furnish both the nine additional seats due to Labour ( 11 minus two won in constituencies ) and the ten additional seats owing to the Liberals . |
| 22 | Whether or not it is correct , it quite clearly differs from the parents ' explicit account of their perception of how the decision has been reached and the implications it will have for George . |
| 23 | However , the tribunal rejected the employer 's reasoning , holding that if such reason were to be valid after the appeals it would have had even greater validity before . |
| 24 | IBM Corp shares saluted the imminent departure of John Akers with a jump of $3.25 at $52.125 at the opening the day after the company accompanied news that it was cutting its quarterly dividend only 55% with the announcement that within 90 days it would have a new chief executive . |
| 25 | File control box and files and buffers it will have to probably |
| 26 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 27 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 28 | She likes to shock ; from current trends , the Gothic style pleases her ; in earlier years it would have been punk , or beatnik . |
| 29 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 30 | If Japan 's lending had continued to expand at the same pace as in recent years it would have overtaken Britain in 1992 . |