Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the higher populations of Amerindians in the past , such groups must have had a major effect on the structure of the forest . |
| 2 | Had Forbes lived longer , he might have founded at Edinburgh a school of naturalists as he hoped , and which was impossible at that date in London ; and he might have written a major work . |
| 3 | It 's tricky , as someone who skis and mountaineers , to whine about the encroachment of ski developments in Scotland , especially when the developers of Aonach Mor spilt so much ink about how they were ‘ conservation friendly ’ , they could have made a major motion picture out of their press releases . |
| 4 | The Council may have played a major role in planning the transfer of the Visigoths to Aquitaine . |
| 5 | After discreet soundings , they prudently abandoned the idea , which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence . |
| 6 | A general right of accession would have created a major inroad into the continuing bilateralism of even multilateral treaties . |
| 7 | It was a fuss about nothing , and I greatly doubt whether anyone other than Randolph Churchill would have made a major issue of it . |
| 8 | I suggest that the discrepancy between the climate modelling results which indicate seasonal temperature extremes , and the increasing body of geological information documenting a temperate climate , may be explained by the fact that the palaeogeography used in the models does not take into account the existence of these lakes and rivers , which would have had a major influence on the regional climate . |