Example sentences of "and [vb mod] have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for Britain , WEU was perhaps satisfactory : it allowed for the possibility of British association with the leaders of integration , if necessary , and may have permitted some form of British influence upon the latter . |
| 2 | It is interesting to learn that nuclear scientists are now seeking the particles necessary to anti-matter and may have found some of them . |
| 3 | He probably left for Wales in November 1469 and may have spent most of the next few months there . |
| 4 | He probably left for Wales in November 1469 and may have spent most of the next few months there . |
| 5 | or parents , and may have had this information included in lessons at school , relatively few do anything about it . |
| 6 | They were in the throes of obtaining a contract to build 87 hawker Furies , the first military order placed outside the close knit ring of SBAC constructors , and must have felt this was where their immediate future lay . |
| 7 | Dr Lee has recently pointed out that although the resources which went into the exporting industries could have been channelled elsewhere , the return would almost certainly have been less : " An eighteenth-century economy without resource to trade would have been smaller , less diversified and must have generated less growth even than the modest rate of increase actually achieved . " |
| 8 | I was pretty mad and must have sounded that way . |
| 9 | This was strong language , and must have swayed many who would have liked to uphold the religious tradition of burying the body whole to await resurrection . |
| 10 | The man smiled at the girl and must have passed some friendly remark , for she looked at him agreeably before returning to her inspection of the petticoats . |
| 11 | They took five wickets each , and must have convinced all concerned that — as the Pakistanis have shown — attacking bowling runs rings round the boring containment of seamers . |
| 12 | Despite her handicaps Helen was an attractive , intelligent woman , and must have had many suitors . |
| 13 | Scotland was an unhappy country in the late seventeenth century , partly for reasons beyond the control of politicians or merchants ; the climate grew steadily harsher , for these were the worst years of the ‘ little ice age ’ that ran from 1500 to 1850 and must have had some general effect of encouraging emigration from Europe . |
| 14 | Over the next few years the Assistant Librarian , Miss Liddell , probably got fed up with the sight of me as I used to get through several books each week and must have read most of the stock . |
| 15 | Being submissive is the co point where what happens when you 're submissive you keep it inside you do n't feel you 're worthy enough or you have n't got you have n't got the self esteem to rate yourself as being able to have what it is that you want , so you keep it inside and you do n't say anything and then you walk away should 've said this and should 've said that and all it does is eat away at you and it does that to you physically as well I mean scientific tests are already showing now that physically these sort of things you do if often be submissive enough what that does it pretty much helps helps you to eat your body up from the inside and causes physical problems which pretty much do that anyway . |
| 16 | It is worth mentioning , however , that one of the emerging conclusions of the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry ( though it is still early days ) is that CPRW could and should have done more to alert the Welsh Office to departures from planning policy and should have created more of a public stink over such abuses . |
| 17 | They could ; and should have won this match and the players have to look to themselves . |
| 18 | The Yorkes lived next door to the Shergolds and might have gleaned some scraps of information that he could wheedle out of Harriet . |
| 19 | already and , and could 've filled some of that in . |
| 20 | I wished that I was less inhibited by my upbringing and could have done some extraordinary thing to confirm her diagnosis — danced on the table or stated that I would n't ally myself with a man with a face like a toothpaste advertisement . |
| 21 | We got one goal and could have had another . ’ |
| 22 | We got one goal and could have had another . ’ |
| 23 | It started about 500 feet above the ground and could have continued all the way up to the stratosphere , for all any one of us , peering hopefully upwards , could tell . |
| 24 | Fighting back tears , his 50-year-old widow Sam said : ‘ He gave his life to British Airways and could have expected some support from them . |
| 25 | The thing is that I could n't cancel the draft — it cost £6.50 to get it , and would have cost another £12.00 to get it annulled . |
| 26 | ‘ At this moment , yes , but he 'd been promoted to registrar and would have assumed that title in a fortnight 's time . ’ |
| 27 | Owen did n't quite understand this and would have asked more but the two men ducked into the next house . |
| 28 | I still wanted to add some more catfish and would have liked some of the Driftwood Cats , Tatia , or Auchenipterichthys , but could not find any , so I purchased four Whiptails , Rhineloricaria sp , and placed them in . |
| 29 | Nigel was proud of his reviews and would have liked another woman to show them to . |
| 30 | OO am and would have saved several people much time and hassle . |