Example sentences of "these [vb mod] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may have been real people , but they were n't real Nazis . |
| 2 | These may have been possible in the days of full staffing and adequate resources . |
| 3 | Although both of these may have been indirect or possibly unintended consequences of the legislative change , homosexuality was still open to interpretation in law as immoral and corrupting . |
| 4 | It is hard to imagine , though , how the non-performing members of the companies memorized the more intricate turns of the refrains in the Florentine manuscript , but then these may have been instrumental improvisations . |
| 5 | Such stories as these must have been common in all religious communities , but the constant recurrence of these themes in Eadmer 's recollections leaves the impression that his thoughts , and those of the monks with whom he had lived since his infancy , were centred almost exclusively on their relics , and on the stories of the gifts , purchases , translations , and miracles associated with them . |
| 6 | Idling speed and electronic ignition controls are clustered just above the motor — these could have been larger |
| 7 | These could have been gross bawdy parodies in the arena to the great delight of the multitude . |
| 8 | He made no excuses or explanations and indeed these would have been unnecessary . |
| 9 | ‘ Under normal tax law , these would have been available to the enlarged group under the same conditions and to the same extent as for any other UK group . ’ |
| 10 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
| 11 | On the Mexican Central Railway , the higher officials , engine-drivers , and conductors were all American at the turn of the century ( on the British-financed lines , many of these would have been British ) ; the brakesmen and station-masters were Mexican ; while all catering was in the hands of Chinese . |
| 12 | These will have been pressure-impregnated , and will be resistant to damp and insect attack . |