Example sentences of "which [modal v] have [vb pp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometime after her American tour in 1910 her Russian protector , Victor Dandré , appears to have become involved in some financial scandal in St Petersburg which may have influenced Pavlova 's decision in 1912 to buy Ivy House in Golders Green , London . |
| 2 | Again at the end of his career Attaingnant , and after him his widow , published similar Livres de danceries ( 1550–5 ) compiled by Claude Gervaise which may have suggested Francesco Bendusi 's Opera Nova de Balli a quatro ( Venice , 1553 ) . |
| 3 | Here 's a great advert for first division football ; a break from the half way line , which should have brought Martin Ling a goal . |
| 4 | But there is a third and underlying reason which must have motivated de Valera and the religious and political intellectuals in this religious pursuit of an allegedly secular and public morality which mirrored Roman catholic teaching . |
| 5 | The request was refused on the grounds that the Masai needed the land — a response which must have confirmed Anderson 's dim view of the administration . |
| 6 | It seemed not to be a good idea , at this stage of the group 's life , to comment on these similarities , which might have made Mr E even more conspicuously different from his colleagues , especially since , as well as asking insight-generating questions , they had told him how they had handled things better , which had moved Mr E to reject their suggestions as unworkable with somebody like Dave . |
| 7 | The silence was underlined by the drumming of grasshoppers and she noticed that there was no other car which might have brought S. Kettering . |
| 8 | She decided to be tactful rather than derisive , which might have roused Tim again . |
| 9 | Richard Branson 's airline blamed the breakdown on BA for trying to impose a ‘ gagging clause ’ in an agreement which would have seen BA pay £9 million in compensation to Virgin . |
| 10 | In the aftermath of the violent suppression of anti-communist demonstrators in June 1990 , the European Communities ( EC ) suspended plans for an economic co-operation agreement which would have given Romania trade benefits and access to EC markets . |
| 11 | No new charter was issued ; James set out to create a Dominion of New England which would have united Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New Hampshire , and the New Jerseys with his own colony of New York . |
| 12 | She was torn between the urge to dance around saying ‘ Nah , nah — he did n't come , ’ and an inclination to draw Sam 's head upon her shoulder and stroke her hair soothingly : it was impossible to know which would have maddened Sam more . |
| 13 | Later in the year , fund-raisers at the college are also hoping to buy two emergency bakeries from the Ministry of Defence which would have fed Britain after a nuclear attack . |
| 14 | Although the US was anxious ( or at least willing ) to approve the Bay of Along agreement which would have reincorporated Cochinchina with the other two parts of Vietnam and paved the way for the return of Bao Dai as the Emperor of a legally united Vietnam , the French government was hesitating to submit the agreement to the Assembly because Indo-China , as the US Ambassador in France described it , was a stick of dynamite or , to change the metaphor , the French government was like an overloaded ship incapable of accommodating one more passenger without capsizing : ‘ Indo-China is that passenger ’ . |
| 15 | As a result , Mr Hood said , forensic evidence which would have proved Beattie innocent was suppressed . |
| 16 | Having caught the left rough off the tee , she was shaping to hit the kind of second shot over trees and lakes which would have had Laura Davies drooling . |
| 17 | After a public haranguing from Atkinson at Highfield Road , the manager adopted a ploy which would have had Ferguson spluttering into his orange juice . |
| 18 | Just a fortnight ago , 23-year-old Jemson was on the verge of re-joining Forest in a £1million-plus swap deal which would have taken Kingsley Black to Hillsborough . |
| 19 | The government announced on Oct. 2 that it was to postpone until the end of 1991 the enactment of a controversial bill which would have allowed Japan to send up to 2,000 troops abroad as part of its contribution to UN peacekeeping forces in Cambodia and elsewhere . |
| 20 | TML objected to Morton 's " abrasive " personal management style , and refused in mid-February to sign a document which would have allowed Eurotunnel to start drawing down some £400 million of additional funding for the project . |
| 21 | The worst option , leaked in a rather conspiratorial manner prior to publication , and which would have left Wales with two short stubs of main line , was immediately rejected by the Government , as if to say that to the public that now there was nothing more to worry about . |
| 22 | Thus in ( 140 ) below the lighting of a fire is presented as a condition which would have permitted Pops to be found sooner , but the fire could not be conceived as acting on Pops directly itself and " making him be found " : ( 140 ) A fire would n't have mattered except that it would cause Pops to be found sooner . |
| 23 | The failure finally to secure 18 pubs from Bass , which would have boosted Hoskin 's estate to 29 , must have dented market confidence , a confidence that needs to be regained if they are not to be swallowed by one of the many new thrusting pub retailers actively seeking new acquisitions . |
| 24 | But to a passing journalist he would free-associate in a way which would have held Freud entranced . |
| 25 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |