Example sentences of "that there [vb mod] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darwin was troubled by the sudden appearance of a wide diversity of fossils in the Cambrian , and tentatively suggested that there might have been a long interval prior to this period when no stratal record was preserved on the continents . |
| 2 | Secondly , he decided the case on the basis that the bank was innocent of any knowledge that there might have been undue influence exercised by the husband upon the wife . |
| 3 | He tried to move inside her , but she gripped him so tightly that there might have been a claw inside her vagina . |
| 4 | A slight discoloration of the lining of the breast pocket of the jacket suggested that there might have been a tailor 's label , but if there had been , it had been removed . |
| 5 | She said carefully , ‘ There is , of course , another way of looking at it , if you can bear , for a moment , to push to one side the thought that there might have been any spiteful intent on my part . ’ |
| 6 | He appeared to allay this concern during the present hearings by admitting to mistakes , specifically not following up on the vague information available to him that there might have been a covert operation and unquestioningly accepting the repeated reassurances of his superior , the then CIA director William J. Casey , that government officials were not involved in illicit activities . |
| 7 | At a news conference on Aug. 11 the mayor of Shenzhen admitted that there might have been some mishandling of the issue of forms , and promised to seek out corrupt officials . |
| 8 | He concluded that he would either have saved £2,000 a year or that £2,000 a year would have gone towards any increase that there might have been in the cost of living or any increase in the standard of living of the family . |
| 9 | And when Kennedy was shot , the ‘ psycho ’ Hoover botched the FBI investigation personally , ignoring evidence that there might have been more than a single gunman involved , sending agents to question the background of the Warren Commission 's staff , punishing his own agents for failing to spot Oswald 's violent nature . |
| 10 | Well obviously we want the incident to be brought to an end and until it 's brought to and end you always have that fear that there might have been another tragedy . |
| 11 | I can say , however , that there would have been a considerable loss of blood , judging by the position of the wound . ’ |
| 12 | And it is likely that there would have been thousands more if more people had known exactly how to raise a complaint with him . |
| 13 | One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production . |
| 14 | Under such conditions , it is assumed that there would have been no ‘ real ’ changes in the child 's language and that any differences in the two test scores would be due to error arising from the limitations of the test itself ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 15 | ( However , Peter Burge , the former Australian batsman who was the ICC 's match referee throughout this series , said afterwards that there would have been time for one over if a wicket had fallen in the same Tufnell over . ) |
| 16 | This passage is interesting as it assumes that there would have been no right of recovery in any of the cases to which the section referred although had the Woolwich principle been applicable there would have been recovery , apart from the section , in some . |
| 17 | But John-William had bought so much land at Far Flatley from Colonel Covington-Pym , a whole bank of his river and several fields beyond that there would have been ample room to build Gemma and Tristan a dear little nest . |
| 18 | It is easy to see that there would have been a continuous trajectory of step-by-step improvement , all the way . |
| 19 | Robertson 's drive over the bar and Klinsmann 's shot , astutely blocked by Walker , ensured that there would have been adolescent opposition to the idea of an early exit while there was so much to appreciate . |
| 20 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 21 | It is worth pointing out — as did Dr Akena Adoko in his book on the Jeffrey Archer trial — that there may have been an additional development in the folkways of the juryroom : the frequent practice of the rich ( the typical plaintiffs ) to pass on their damages to charity , as did Mr Archer , might act as an additional , and self-legitimating , incentive to take awards through the ceiling . |
| 22 | In his zeal to demonstrate that the Conservatives were committed individualists Fforde refuses to accept that there may have been real disagreements within the party . |
| 23 | THE French-owned unit-trust company Dumenil has suspended dealings in its funds , worth £33 million , after the disclosure that there may have been pricing errors in recent valuations . |
| 24 | David Schramm , of the University of Chicago , along with Chris Hill from Fermilab , the particle-physics laboratory just outside Chicago , has recently suggested that there may have been transitions after the microwave background was emitted . |
| 25 | The OFT client survey in 1985 found that organisations commissioning consulting architects were , in general , paying 10–15 per cent below the RIBA recommended scale , indicating that there may have been some small reduction in the fee income of architects after 1982 . |
| 26 | This does not necessarily mean that the genetic information has been lost , but only that there may have been some chemical modification which makes crucial genes inaccessible . |
| 27 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 28 | Thus one starts with an indication that more than one person may be affected by the problem , and that there may have been a crisis or trigger-event leading to a referral for assistance at this point . |
| 29 | On May 19th seven civil servants were fired ( though , in one of many farcical moves , five have now been unfired ) among muttering that there may have been criminality in the office . |
| 30 | The second alternative is that there may have been a continuation of the dryopithecin radiation . |