Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb mod] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | One carries a rope and he frets about its purpose , whether it 's required , where they could possibly have used it . |
| 2 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 3 | They may be parents or they may only have letters after their name , but what they have in common is this : they know that intellectual perfection and the criteria for measuring it are chimeras . |
| 4 | They might form an array of some higher dimension , or they might not have any array-like structure at all . |
| 5 | They were people who had reason to be suspicious , or they would not have paid so highly for Hayman 's services . |
| 6 | They were not the cream or they would not have found their way to this worthless place . |
| 7 | None of the Khans believed that Artai was so incapable of controlling the violence of his temperament , Alexei thought , or they would not have elected him . |
| 8 | ‘ His jailers were certain he intended to have me killed , or they would not have treated me thus . ’ |
| 9 | Boys , young lads , not happy boys or they would not have sat so loosely to life that they could come the way of their murderer . |
| 10 | ‘ Someone must be with them or they would n't have got up there , ’ said Maud reasonably . |
| 11 | " Silly question , of course you must be or they would n't have let you out . " |
| 12 | Well erm David said that he did n't think the strike would have gone on or they would n't have the heart to go on without the women ? |
| 13 | Presumably the French had believed her , or they would hardly have let her go . |
| 14 | It had to be , he had to do something or they would never have er got In other ways in was a lenient school because as the years went by it was , a register was called , a teacher er opened a book and we called numbers . |
| 15 | I do n't suppose No they would n't have any warning about this going to happen or they would never have taking a lot of bairns down among it . |
| 16 | Desire , yes , of course , or they would never have ended up like this , but also a reluctant fascination and a curiously protective tendency that she found both touching and revealing . |
| 17 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 18 | The internal hierarchies of the print system were of course broadly coherent with more general social hierarchies , or they could not have been so effective . |
| 19 | ’ Anyone form Vadinamia , ’ Mala pointed out , or they could n't have locked on to us . |
| 20 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 21 | Left : Most wide waterway craft were built with a more spacious cabin and many boatmen lived on board although they may also have kept a house on shore . |
| 22 | The empiricists , although they may not have taken up Descartes ' idea that the mind is an immaterial substance , followed him in treating the contents of mind as objects private and internal to the individual and different from physical objects . |
| 23 | Although they may not have used the above terminology , their written statements confirm the evidence in their work . |
| 24 | Parents will frequently already be aware that the child is experiencing difficulties with various aspects of language , although they may not have considered the implications of these problems in any great detail . |
| 25 | The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction . |
| 26 | Well the men although they may not have realized they were thirteen must have been pretty stupid not to realize they were perhaps below consent age . |
| 27 | Charlie was not at all worried : he was the happiest , sunniest child , and my parents ’ favourite I think , although they would not have admitted to having favourites . |
| 28 | He pointed out that although they would automatically have carried out such precautions , water would always be found in the deeper parts of the mine . |
| 29 | And she knew , although they would never have dreamt of telling her , perhaps did n't even admit it to themselves , that they were afraid of her . |
| 30 | In both cases , the girls would have been brought up in a genteel atmosphere , although they might originally have come from very poor families . |