Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] have [vb pp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not let tax issues drive the deal -eg British & Commonwealth loan notes may have deferred CGT but they were ultimately a disaster for vendors who took them . |
| 2 | Yanto 's words must have cut Joe a little . |
| 3 | These words might have had Philip Grey of Warwick University Bookshop strung up for high treason a decade or so ago , but such are the realities of recession that far from stringing him up , CUBs gave him a whole session in which to address the question of Who Needs Books ? |
| 4 | Possible peers would have included Mr Bragg , Sir ‘ Dickie ’ Attenborough , and television 's Sir Denis Forman . |
| 5 | The clearing of arrears would have allowed Vietnam renewed access to the loans necessary to revive its economy . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ In the past , Gwynedd communities may have perceived HIV and Aids to be a problem for others , for large urban populations or overseas communities . |
| 7 | Much as his parents might have wanted Charles to have a normal upbringing , it was impossible . |
| 8 | It had occurred to him that simply to refuse to discuss his movements would have led Erica inevitably to his real job . |
| 9 | Like any political arriviste , he could not be sure whom he should trust among his colleagues , but the faction-fights of the previous thirty years must have taught Ceauşescu that in the Romanian Communist Party ideological affinity or even past services counted for little . |
| 10 | One suspects that the ‘ old ’ Banks might have put Prentice in the arms of a real aunt , rather than a politely honoured friend of the family , and there are fewer than usual Gothic touches . |
| 11 | When she concluded by asking if Madame Vassoir still had the letter from Beatrix and if its contents could have provoked Samantha 's abduction , her hostess poured them both a glass of sherry before replying . |
| 12 | He learned this lesson this year in giving Kelly his chance pre-season and then sticking with him , even though many observers would have brought Kerslake or Sterland ( any news on him ? ) back . |
| 13 | Some people still do not accept Einstein s Relativity ; many others refuse to accept that Relativity may not be the final explanation ( even though such an acquiescence to received ideas would have horrified Einstein himself ) . |
| 14 | It was a hot and lively capital of this popular Balearic isle of Majorca and pre-Fernando days would have found Ruth down there , twelve floors down there , getting among the hustle and bustle , soaking up the atmosphere and tasting the very essence of the island with enthusiasm . |
| 15 | He looked distraught , his tie was pulled down and his collar open , his hair was ruffled , but even if he had been neatly dressed and groomed , the bright staring eyes and hectic cheeks would have warned Pascoe that something was amiss . |
| 16 | Despite his immense forces ( though Bede or his sources may have exaggerated Cadwallon 's numerical superiority for dramatic effect ) , it was Cadwallon who proved the more vulnerable , far from home and by now an isolated member of the alliance which had conspired to defeat Eadwine . |
| 17 | In the great tradition of British travel writers , he has already sailed the Atlantic in a leather boat trying to prove that Irish monks could have reached America 1,000 years before Columbus . |
| 18 | The foregoing arguments should have underlined CPRW 's fundamental opposition to the application . |
| 19 | Her approaches were unsuccessful since suspicion of her contacts with Jacobite circles might have endangered Georg Ludwig 's position as king of England ; and her children when grown up had political considerations of their own which prevented them from responding positively . |
| 20 | Access to clean needles might have saved Lena . |
| 21 | The inclusion of such relatively unimportant details would have given Wellesley a more human frame during the most formative period of his life in India . |
| 22 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 23 | Few contemporaries would have expected Balfour 's retirement to lead to a Unionist recovery . |
| 24 | ‘ My superiors would have dismissed Graham 's allegations about my past as the ramblings of a broken man . |
| 25 | ACTION by US scientists may have saved Academician Andrei Sakharov 's life when he was exiled to Gorky in 1980 — according to an anonymous letter recently circulated in Moscow . |
| 26 | Judges in contempt cases can be judges in their own cause ; it is doubtful whether juries would have convicted Granada television for refusing to name its " mole " within British Steel , or solicitor Harriet Harman for giving a journalist access to documents read out in open court , or " The Independent " for publishing excerpts from " Spycatcher " at a time when the Government was trying to stop the British public from reading a book on open sale in other countries . |
| 27 | The Edwardian Gaiety girls would have recognized Norah . |
| 28 | Says Jim Whiston , ‘ This time next year we 'll have double the number of accreditations and by 1990 the vast majority of businesses in C&P , ICI Films and ICI Advanced Materials will have attained BS standards or those laid down by manufacturers . ’ |
| 29 | The sounds of shouting and gunshots might have alarmed Ianthe had she not realised that they were coming from the television programme in the basement . |
| 30 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |