Example sentences of "that [adv] [noun] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think a lot of people are put off computing by the thought that it 's very technical and very difficult to get into , and I think in some ways it still is and there 's a sort of group of experts who rather jealously guard their knowledge , so in that sense , yes , they could short cut and remove skills that perhaps people should have . |
| 2 | Hick , could be available still to play for Zimbabwe , but it does not bode well for the development of cricket in Zimbabwe itself , and I would agree with those who hoped that perhaps Zimbabwe could have been readmitted as part of South African cricket in their domestic competitions . |
| 3 | ‘ I believe that only God could have saved her , but for some reason — perhaps her fear or our fear for her — we could not realise His mercy . ’ |
| 4 | One somehow thinks that only Lewis could have stepped , with a few vigorous steps , from a defence of drunken all-male ‘ stag ’ evenings to a vivid illustration of the life and literature of the Middle Ages . |
| 5 | In the bathroom , Donna had segued clumsily from ‘ I could have danced all night ’ to ‘ I 'm getting married in the morning ’ , her attempts at a Cockney accent so ludicrous that normally Alex would have been falling about . |
| 6 | Now the other thing we should remember is that between nineteen seventy eight and nineteen eighty two , certainly in the early nineteen eighties , eighty , eighty one , we were in the midst of a recession and so that should tell us that really people should have less money to spend on holidays . |
| 7 | But for the moment it is enough to recognize that even unanimity can have its problematic aspects ; and , since unanimity is so rarely achieved on a large scale , we need to consider next the next best thing , the principle with which democracy is very often crudely identified : majority decision-taking or majority rule . |
| 8 | But having said that surely Wilkinson could have kept him at the club , for someone who says that players are picked on the performances they produce how can he explain Deane ? |
| 9 | On the contrary , I shall try to illustrate my feeling that here Paley could have gone even further . |
| 10 | For , while her pride was up in arms that plainly Ven would have preferred to take someone else out to dinner — had that ‘ someone else ’ been free — what was really getting to Fabia was nothing but common-or-garden , out-and-out jealousy . |
| 11 | It was hoped that over £100,000 would have been raised through the day 's efforts . |