Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , if the wrong person has been assigned to approve a package and the user who should have done so does not agree to the approval , the following steps must be taken : |
| 2 | ‘ He 's the kind who used to have children transported to Australia for stealing a loaf of bread . ’ |
| 3 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 4 | First , they wanted to see if he could pass himself off as Swedish , or if there was anybody working for the enemy who might have an inkling of his presence or identity . |
| 5 | While it is undoubtedly true that there are advantageous settlements negotiated at the door of the Court , the actual cost to the defender in settling at that stage is significant insofar as in the majority of cases it is the defender who will have to meet the whole cost of preparation for the Proof by both parties , including attendance of witnesses , Counsel 's fees and so forth . |
| 6 | By 1525 in the latter shire a quarter of the personal estate in a sample of forty villages was owned by 4 per cent of the rural population , excluding the squires — clearly there were some members of the peasantry who must have had sufficient wealth to dominate their fellows ( 81 , pp.26–7 ; 83 , pp.17 , 142 ) . |
| 7 | Theoretically she could also have told Fiona on the telephone who could have told Nolan or Lewis , but it was n't the sort of item one would naturally bother to pass on . |
| 8 | Clare had planned so often the details of her own wedding , so often pictured herself , radiant in a long , white dress with train , leaning on her father 's arm , advancing with a slow , fragile step down the aisle towards Mark , handsome and smiling in morning dress , while the organ pealed and the candles and flowers blazed , and the guests beamed and whispered in the crowded pews — that she felt a surge of pity for the girl who would have nothing to remember but this sordid little ceremony . |
| 9 | Molly had gone round the party trying to pick up information , listening for hints dropped during casual conversations and there , talking to her own children and eating nougat , was the girl who might have told her almost everything . |
| 10 | ( No Robina Mary , Robina Elizabeth for the girl who should have been a boy . ) |
| 11 | The police would like to hear from anyone at the dance who may have seen the incident . |
| 12 | However , the devoted and caring father was not the type who would have deliberately harmed his child even in a fit of temper . |
| 13 | No one has ever spoken of the child who must have been born to Dierdriu , and who had given birth to himself and Grainne . |
| 14 | ‘ And we are still looking for the child who should have been in the premises , but was n't . |
| 15 | In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time . |
| 16 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 17 | Now VAT men have earned an unfortunate reputation for not exactly being the sort who might have graduated from the Lucy Clayton school for charm and social deportment . |
| 18 | So much torrential rain fell overnight and throughout the day of the finals that the organisers decided to dispense with scrums and let the team who would have had the scrum take a free-kick instead . |
| 19 | So he walked back into the piazza , while the church bells rang out with a dud sound , for the priest never had learnt how to stop the bell cutting its own resonance on the return of the clapper , and the musicians of the town who could have taught him were all adversaries of the church , like Davide 's father . |
| 20 | This task will be easier if the plaintiff has been convicted of an offence under the Motor Vehicles ( Wearing of Seat Belts ) Regulations 1982 or the 1991 Regulations making the wearing of seat belts in rear seats by adults compulsory because that conviction will throw the onus on to the plaintiff who will have to show it was erroneous or irrelevant to discharge it . |
| 21 | Since the will is usually the only evidence the testator has left of his intentions , where doubts and ambivalences occur they must be resolved without recourse to the person who would have been best qualified to explain them . |
| 22 | In this first type of exclamation , the impression then is that the person who would have been evoked as the subject if the verb were in a finite form is represented as somehow before the infinitive event . |
| 23 | Section 1(1) provides that if death is caused by any wrongful act , neglect or default which is such as would ( if death had not ensued ) have entitled the person injured to maintain an action and recover damages , the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued is liable to an action for damages , notwithstanding the death of the person injured . |
| 24 | The human suffering which results from an accident can be severe and can result in some form of life-long disablement or disfigurement for the victim , not forgetting the stress and guilt which is borne by the person who may have had some responsibility for the accident occurring . |
| 25 | This assumes that a depositor is the person who will have made the deposit in question . |
| 26 | Their position was well summed up by the Carers National Association , which has stated that the current rules could have ’ disastrous consequences ’ for the family and friends of the claimant who may have moved into the home to take on the caring responsibilities . |
| 27 | Anybody who might have been er at the Tesco store on Saturday any time during the day who might have seen the pony or even people who walk their dogs because the field 's used quite extensively for dog walkers . |
| 28 | It is particularly worthy of note that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer who would have responsibility for these matters if a Labour Government were elected , was a prominent member of the Government at that time . |
| 29 | The carp-fisher , with his array of matched stepped-up rods and bait-runner reels , electronic bleepers and burpers , needle and bobbin indicators — not to mention baits that require a degree in organic chemistry to fully understand — is no different to the Koi-keeper who must have the latest colour-enhancing food , all dancing filters and show-quality fish . |
| 30 | The Marshal would have liked to turn this problem over to the Captain who could have applied some brains to it . |