Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , many philosophers today would probably go along more with Hare 's original position and say that although Kant may well have answered the third sort of question ( page 98 ) well , he has not adequately answered the second ( still less , it would generally be thought , the first ) . |
| 2 | At least one writer has speculated that Carver may recently have lost a son ( by circular argument , in that selfsame Stirling plague ) , but the truth is we simply do n't know what , if any , personal reference is composed into the music . |
| 3 | Brampton may still have killed my son , and Vechey 's death be totally unconnected with this . ’ |
| 4 | It is exactly this point which D. J. Enright makes in the observation that ‘ Plato may once have thought more highly of speech than of writing , but I doubt he does now ! ’ |
| 5 | In other words , Offa may never have wished this to be anything other than a wholly Mercian ceremony . |
| 6 | Although Offa may once have aspired to be ‘ king of the English ’ , Cenwulf did not , and it is arguable , for all his control of southern England apart from Wessex , that Mercian power declined in his reign . |
| 7 | With Great Britain coach Mal Reilly again likely to pick Gary Connolly and Alan Hunte for his side , St Helens may also have to switch their fixture with Sheffield Eagles at Knowsley Road with Jonathan Griffiths and Anthony Sullivan in the Welsh squad . |
| 8 | C. P. Snow may not have delineated the cultural divide until 1959 ; but commentators still return to Victorian England for the most potent illustrations of desiccated , materialistic science set against the life of the imagination . |
| 9 | The more immediate problem , however , was which of the two Boards ( trade or education ) should have overall authority for the juvenile side of the exchanges and Churchill may well have sensed that a controversy was brewing . |
| 10 | So , that morning presented a wonderful opportunity — and just a little compensation perhaps for the huge disappointment Kemp must undoubtedly have experienced over the theft of the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 11 | There was no reason why Kenamun should ever have known about his meeting with Surere . |
| 12 | ‘ I wanted to say , you see , that I know you thought Frannie should n't have gone , and that it 's ruined your holiday plans , and , on behalf of us all , I 'm sorry . |
| 13 | St Patrick must greatly have simplified Irish thought , a turn for the better , when he introduced Christianity . |
| 14 | Conversely Mortimer should not have invoked the earls to revolt against the king . |
| 15 | Clearly Whiteson is suspicious that Duran may not have shed 30lb to get down to the middleweight limit for Leonard by wholly natural methods . |
| 16 | The comparative stability of the oligopolistic structure in the United States may well have bred a complacency which Japanese and German capitalists , faced with rebuilding their position on world markets almost from scratch , could never afford . |
| 17 | Thus , prices on Simex may not have had a measurable effect on the index . |
| 18 | Freud may not have foreseen that it would be a difficult task for parents to consciously recognize infantile sexuality without being seduced into the role of a participant . |
| 19 | With luck , Mr Gorbachev may also have left it too late to make a fourth big mistake : returning his country to dictatorship . |
| 20 | That continuity , however , demanded some focus and in 1483 Edward may well have felt that the most effective focus would be provided by his son . |
| 21 | That continuity , however , demanded some focus and in 1483 Edward may well have felt that the most effective focus would be provided by his son . |
| 22 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 23 | Among the western Saxons Ine may not have acquired royal power until the following year ; he abdicated in 726 and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List gives him a reign of thirty-seven years which implies an accession in 689 , not 688 . |
| 24 | Gregory may well have known of these claims , and have thought of them as pagan . |
| 25 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 26 | Though Ismail Belig 's evidence is not perhaps the most reliable , the facts which he gives about the holders of the kadilik of Bursa in the period , facts which are at least consistent , if not necessarily accurate , indicate that Molla Yegan may indeed have left office a few years earlier than 844 : according to Ismail Belig , Yusuf Bali succeeded Molla Yegan in the kadilik in 842/1438–9 , himself being succeeded at the Sultan medrese by Molla Yegan 's son , Sah Mehmed ( or Mehmed Sah ) , who later also succeeded him as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |
| 27 | She knew , as Travis must surely have known , that in a little while she would begin to feel really cold . |
| 28 | I do n't know whether it was mental or pyschological , but Watford should not have caused the problems they did . |
| 29 | Both acts are morally wrong — Edward should not have abused his divine right and curried favour by dishing out peerages . |
| 30 | Sister Becky might once have shown promise , but she turned out too left-wing . |