Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] have [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circumstances may change , and he may no longer want the goods and services that he has ordered , or the seller may appear to be doing a poor job , and the buyer may have lost confidence in him . |
| 2 | Promotions to abbacies and bishoprics were probably often the subject of competition between important families , and canvassing and intrigue may have taken place both locally and at court . |
| 3 | Some prisoners who would not normally have received the death sentence may have fallen victim to political interference in the judicial process . |
| 4 | Drug may have saved coma girl |
| 5 | The change must have taken place long before Ediacaran times for when those rocks were deposited the fundamental invertebrate divisions were already established . |
| 6 | What he perceived was rather the state of the doctor and he inferred from this that a change must have taken place at some time before that moment . |
| 7 | Wall Street was rocked by the news and Disney shares fell 4.3 per cent by the end of trading as rumours spread that the stock may have reached peak price . |
| 8 | The popular image of the absent-minded , long-haired professor may have given way in recent years to the well-suited , urbane telly-don , but college teachers are still often represented as colourful , eccentric and even controversial figures : exotic creatures , trapped in a forlorn struggle between an unfeeling college bureaucracy on the one hand and an unthinking — nay , an invincible — student ignorance on the other . |
| 9 | There had been suggestions that Senna 's car may have lost downforce when running behind the Williams but the video clearly shows that he was n't close enough . |
| 10 | Their need for legitimation may have benefited lawyer D 's other clients . |
| 11 | Firminus , comes of the Auvergne , tried to prevent his name going forward , but Avitus reached the court of king Sigibert , and was consecrated in Metz , although according to the canons the ceremony should have taken place in Clermont . |
| 12 | Furthermore there is no qualifying period during which the applicant must have received maintenance from the deceased . |
| 13 | I think my transsexual obsession must have triggered puberty when I could not reconcile the fact of my being a girl with my intense crushes on other girls . |
| 14 | It is therefore highly improbable if not impossible that recent damage to a roof would have caused rot in underlying timbers . |
| 15 | An official at Retix said , ‘ if these companies had taken the entire product , the industry would have seen transaction processing interoperability a lot earlier . ’ |
| 16 | If these missiles had triggered ESM equipment on all the British ships , unnecessary confusion would have resulted defence chiefs believed . |
| 17 | What we do know from Allen 's recent survey of part time working in general practice is that many women working in general practice would have preferred hospital practice , particularly paediatrics , obstetrics and gynaecology , and general medicine , if they could have trained in these specialties part time . |
| 18 | Presumably the employee would have led evidence as to the latter if the employer 's accounts had indeed contained such information . |
| 19 | Suppose each path is just two steps long , and there are D levels in the hierarchy ; then every rule will have gained credit after ( D+1 ) successful searches . |
| 20 | He told his wife ( and himself ) that he was going to meet Adam in order to break the news gently to him that these awful discoveries had been made at Wyvis Hall and that foul play might have taken place while he , Adam , was actually its owner . |
| 21 | The wrong doer is not entitled to criticise the course honestly taken by the injured person on the advice of his experts , even though it should appear by the light of after-events that another course might have saved loss . |
| 22 | An immediate offensive might have given victory in Scotland and enabled him to march into England , where Thomas Forster and the Earl of Derwentwater were trying to raise the northern shires on behalf of the Jacobites . |
| 23 | The British Election Surveys have shown how age , social class and other attributes are related to voting , and this information can be linked to findings on the attributes of migrants to assess how migration may have affected election results . |
| 24 | Teenage train hero Youngster may have averted rail disaster by Sandy Braid NEWS REPORTER |
| 25 | Or the defendant may be a multinational bank , carrying on business here , but all the dealings in question may have taken place at an overseas branch . |
| 26 | He appealed , submitting that ( 1 ) the judge should have excluded evidence of the oral admissions ; ( 2 ) the judge should not have permitted the Crown 's application to re-elect and amend the indictment . |
| 27 | Secondly , that transfer must have given rise to rights in the individual who makes it . |
| 28 | According to Jackson , the editor must have disclosed Freeman 's name , ‘ for a day or two later appeared a raving letter from Freeman accusing the editor of breach of confidence , abusing Ruskin and all his works and scorning his offer of intimacy ’ . |
| 29 | Surely the Lord Chancellor should have issued guidance to justices on the tariff for sentencing in such cases . |
| 30 | Their proposal would have allowed employee inventors to apply to a tribunal to assess what would constitute a ‘ fair ’ reward for their efforts in the light of all the circumstances attending the creation and subsequent exploitation of the invention . |