Example sentences of "it [modal v] have [vb pp] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The death of Isis may have been an aberration , or it may have had nothing to do with the others . |
| 2 | Whether ground was distinguished from sky in any other way than by being outlined against it the evidence so far cited does not tell us , but probably some trees and flowers were shown on it , and it may have had something in the nature of shading . |
| 3 | It may have had something to do with the bomb scares in London , when parts were shut off and traffic diverted . ’ |
| 4 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 5 | It must have made one feel somehow disregarded , almost apart when , thinking to have a small lending library , one sees all the books gradually disappear . |
| 6 | But it must have meant something to someone . |
| 7 | But it stuck in his mind that getting to England was something perilous and rare like rounding the Horn , it must have had something to do with his allowing himself to get so wholly cut off from Constanza later on . |
| 8 | A spokesman said : ‘ If the parrot could talk it might have said something unpleasant about having its wings clipped . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It might have saved lots of time if they did , but there you are . |
| 10 | It might have had something to do with her illness , the eating disorder bulimia . |
| 11 | It might have had something to do with the murder because she seemed to think Ken Harris would be interested . ’ |
| 12 | It might have had something to do with tennis . |
| 13 | It is difficult to tell how much of Dustin 's discomfiture during the making of the film seeped through into his portrayal , but it might have added something uneasy to the character of Benjamin . |
| 14 | It could have done anything . ’ |
| 15 | It would have done nothing for her already damaged ego if he had barged his way into her bedroom , only to find himself having to wade through a torrent of tears . |
| 16 | She turned weakness into strength , for if she had tried to dismiss those accusations it would have made everything else she said suspect . |
| 17 | Yeah and , and if you could , I mean the thing is , if you 're , if er , if we did n't have each other to go off with erm it would have made everything for us a lot different , I mean okay we 're lucky we 're in a situation where we do know a lot of people who are , who are like- minded |
| 18 | Why , it would have made everyone else so sad . |
| 19 | They all spent time reassuring Fiona until the worst of the worry unwound from her body and I watched the movement of her silver-blond hair in the soft lights and made no attempt to throw doubts because it would have achieved nothing good . |
| 20 | He wanted to get away somewhere and think in peace , but experience had taught him that it would have achieved nothing because he was incapable of sustained logical thought . |
| 21 | It would have taken something of a miracle to attract the capital investment which might have begun to change this state of affairs . |
| 22 | It would have meant nothing to that pervert to let her stay … he had wielded the knife , the cruel swine … telling her he regretted there was nothing for her when all the time he was still hiring people … examining her through that monocle as though he was God … |
| 23 | It would have solved nothing . |
| 24 | I used a textured cream fabric as a backing , to add a little interest , although if it had been too heavy it would have distracted one 's eye from the heart pattern itself . |
| 25 | Not that it would have proved anything if there had been . |
| 26 | The men who now promoted it would have found something new to replace it . |
| 27 | If the Community can take constructive and urgent action , as my right hon. Friend the Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) said , to bring the Uruguay round of the GATT negotiations to a successful conclusion , it will have done something of value for its members and the global economy generally . |