Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb mod] have [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may have been cases where the acquisition of the wrappers conferred no direct benefit on the Nestle Co. , but there must have been many cases where it did . |
| 2 | The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right . |
| 3 | Police said there may have been plans to plant the bombs elsewhere in Calcutta to try to reignite Hindu-Moslem riots which hit India in December and January , claiming nearly 2,000 lives . |
| 4 | And yesterday as a big hunt was launched for her attackers , police revealed there may have been women in the gang . |
| 5 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 6 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 7 | There may have been problems of mastery , of control , of appropriate letting go ; or an early refusal to let go as resistance to an over-persistent potty-training parent . |
| 8 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 9 | Thus while those TANU members concerned to achieve effective communication for the purpose of education and development preferred the press to radio , whose full potential they failed to recognize , there may have been others who realized that radio had powers to reach people which TANU had not . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , but there may have been others . ’ |
| 11 | These finds suggest at least two methods of fishing , with line and net , and there may have been others . |
| 12 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 13 | A team creates a supportive atmosphere where people are happy to go at risk , say what they really think , develop one another 's ideas and commit to an agreed course of action even though there may have been differences of opinion . |
| 14 | There may have been queues in the streets when Derrida came to Oxford recently . |
| 15 | But there may have been incidents where we have been involved . |
| 16 | There may have been complications or separation at birth and the mother may have never really felt completely bonded to the child . |
| 17 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 18 | That Mr er did live at the flat erm with his wife , there may have been children but we did n't know for certain and that the previous night two male persons appeared to have been there . |
| 19 | David Schramm , of the University of Chicago , along with Chris Hill from Fermilab , the particle-physics laboratory just outside Chicago , has recently suggested that there may have been transitions after the microwave background was emitted . |
| 20 | But there must have been cases were n't there ? |
| 21 | In that case there must have been genes controlling variation in caddis houses , for selection can not produce adaptations unless there are hereditary differences among which to select . |
| 22 | Of course there must have been prohibitions and limits set , but I do n't remember rebelling against any of them . |
| 23 | There must have been assignations . |
| 24 | There must have been nicknames but er ca n't really , do n't really remember . |
| 25 | On the other hand , there is evidence in the fifteenth century of town building of both domestic and commercial property , which was clearly a speculative attempt to secure a profit , so there must have been advantages to be gained from this . |
| 26 | There must have been concentrations of seal makers at the great temple centres , serving the larger populations of the towns . |
| 27 | Instead , there must have been departures from uniform density . |
| 28 | There must have been servants listening ; without seeing who was responsible , Paul found the front door slammed behind him , and himself in the grey street . |
| 29 | There must have been rumours of the dastardly deed at the hall as early as 1578 , for it was in that year that Sir Henry Knyvett ( another of Darrel 's antagonists ) wrote a letter to Sir John at Longleat , asking him to search out Mr Bonham and to enquire how many children his sister had and what had become of them . |
| 30 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |