Example sentences of "these [vb mod] have [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 People such as these may have been enslaved as a result of capture in war or through failure to meet legal obligations ; the scale of the practice is unclear ( Davies 1982 , p. 66 ; Sawyer 1978 , p. 173 ) .
2 It may be that the temples , through their bureaucracy , were able to set quotas on production in the rural villages ; these may have been specified taxes , or tribute , or they may have been expressed as required offerings .
3 Continuing our top-down approach to discourse , it is logical that having identified the sender and receiver , the discourse type and the parts within it , we should turn our attention to organization within parts of the discourse — however these may have been identified and defined .
4 The two cases that have been mentioned occurred about ten years afterwards , and these may have been removed against their will .
5 The very first of these may have been held in Burrell 's Hall off the High Street , but two years later , Glasgow 's first Concert Hall was cobbled together .
6 These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use .
7 banks of suitable investigations ( these may have been produced in relation to other examinations or tests ;
8 Among these , there is much for which it is likely that performances could never have been contemplated by whatever scratch ensembles could furtively be gathered at clandestine celebrations held in recusant households ; these must have been composed simply as an act of faith .
9 Furniture and furnishings in Parma show a strong French influence , too , being Parmesan adaptations of the Empire style ; and the local dialect has numerous words which are purely French ( although these must have been imported at an earlier time , perhaps under the Bourbons in the eighteenth century ) — armoir for armadio ( a wardrobe ) , vin for vino , boucho for tappo ( a cork ) , artichaut for carciofo ( an artichoke ) , and so on .
10 Underneath this she wore black cotton trousers — ideally these should have been made of silk , but she felt sure no one would notice .
11 Collected elsewhere , these might have been written off as terrestrial contamination .
12 These might have been held to be missing links in a chain of which the links were very small in some places , and large ( so far ) in others ; but this idea conflicted with the notion that God would have created the best of all possible worlds , which should therefore not change over time since all change must be for the worse .
13 Many of these could have been prevented if the right measures were available and used correctly . ’
14 These could have been described in other language , just as in Burgess 's Class 1 version of Joyce 's Portrait [ 11 ] .
15 On 11 November these could have been sold for 35p each , a profit before transactions cost of 40 per cent .
16 In many places the film opened to boycotts and demonstrations but several distributors suggested that these could have been avoided by the use of a more innocent title along the lines of It Happened in Mexico .
17 Following the Romans ' introduction of the geared watermill into England , many such mills were established — the Domesday Book lists 5,624 mills , although a good proportion of these would have been worked by horses or oxen rather than water .
18 These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes .
19 ( Not all of these will have been killed .
20 These will have been issued with a fixed redemption value and we must assume that the holder calculated that this would give him a return equal or similar to alternative returns currently available .
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