Example sentences of "[conj] it [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mail had a regular page for women which would not be out of place in an English daily , where it may well have originated : |
| 2 | Choose a spot where it will not have direct sunlight falling on it and where it will not be overheated by a radiator or other room-heater . |
| 3 | The dress was tight in the right places , and shiny where it should n't have been . |
| 4 | Though what I did notice was a motor bicycle parked where it should n't have been — outside Wheeler 's . |
| 5 | But no , he was n't killed for that , or it would n't have been still on him . |
| 6 | The lack of reversal when splitting data by accident estimates may have been caused by a number of films with very little peripheral information in them , or it may simply have been an effect of the high correlation between risk and accident estimates . |
| 7 | Or it may simply have been that he was hiding : that his confused sexuality could at any time have brought him down . |
| 8 | It might be ready for opening , or it might just have dissolved away itself . |
| 9 | But stretch it very tight like a drum , or it will not have the effect of keeping out the cold . |
| 10 | The photograph was taken on a favourable day or it could not have been taken at all . |
| 11 | A better song at the learning stage does not , for instance , allow it to defend a territory or court females more effectively — although it may well have such a consequence later , after the song has been learnt ( p. 127 ) . |
| 12 | On balance , the evidence does not support this tactical scenario , although it may well have occurred to de Gaulle . |
| 13 | Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend . |
| 14 | In the event , the CEP evidence was eventually given by the individuals responsible under the banner of the then Cornwall-based campaigner George Pritchard , although it would undoubtedly have helped its status to be seen as part of the local councils ' case . |
| 15 | The French replied that the devastation and terrorism that continued was not all the fault of ‘ dissident ’ nationalist Vietnamese or bandits and although it might not have the status of an ‘ official ’ armed struggle the results were indistinguishable . |
| 16 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 17 | Truman was reminded that it was an agreed military estimate that if Indo-China falls , ‘ very likely all of South-East Asia may come under communist domination ’ and , although it might not have seemed a very credible danger , it was pointed out that the Philippines were less than 800 miles from Indo-China . |
| 18 | In this way , although it could not have considered the fact , it was very like the man who waited in the shadows of its home territory . |
| 19 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 20 | If an Aplysia receives an alarming stimulus such as an electric shock on the tail , it then responds more readily to other stimuli ( such as prods to the siphon ) that it would otherwise have been less responsive to . |
| 21 | I shuddered , the very thought of anyone being so foolish baffled me , the steps were so rotten that it would n't have taken any weight to have snapped them and sent anyone plunging down causing a bad injury . |
| 22 | My offspring is gaining one unit , that it would n't have had otherwise . |
| 23 | ‘ — that it would n't have counted anyway because he would not have been able to use the words with a true heart . ’ |
| 24 | Erm the effect was that that er on on on on the assessment we did at the time , that it would n't have affected flows on the A sixty one in the centre of Harrogate . |
| 25 | But I thought you were so experienced that it would n't have affected you as it did me . ’ |
| 26 | My feeling is that it would n't have when there 's a been a change perhaps there could be no from the |
| 27 | they , they had to improve the productivity from the land and im well not productivity , just efficiency generally , and that how that it would n't have made economic sense for them to have gone straight for socialism . |
| 28 | Er had had such a record , I mean if he 'd smashed just er a lampshade or something like that it would n't have been so bad , but to actually get rid of a third of all the crockery in one fell sloop was er well it was fairly excessive . |
| 29 | The translator could have used the feminine form of the verb , but s/he possibly felt that it would also have been marked or that it might have unnecessarily excluded potential male users . |
| 30 | Pascoe said : ‘ I do understand that it would also have been blackmail but in the circumstances I was n't adopting a very high moral position . |