Example sentences of "this [modal v] have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 2 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 3 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 4 | They lived the lives of the folk among whom they worked ; and this may have helped many of them to make real contact with their parishioners . |
| 5 | It was argued that this should have maximised any lateral eye movement asymmetry . |
| 6 | This might have implied some degree of interconnection and co-ordination between the various sectors , but unfortunately this is not the situation . |
| 7 | By changing the adjective discreet into an adverb , this would have lost some of the force of the original , which attributes the behavioural quality of discretion metonymically to the door , an inanimate object which can not , in literal actuality , possess it . |
| 8 | This would have brought more people out into the corridors and foyers . |
| 9 | This would have avoided all discussion of the succession . |
| 10 | This would have benefited some of the smaller parties in East Germany , such as the PDS and the German Social Union ( DSU — the small East German equivalent of the Bavarian Christian Social Union — CSU ) , since they would not have had to surmount the 5 per cent hurdle required under the West German system to gain representation . |
| 11 | This would have preempted any Russian protest . |
| 12 | To have eaten at a time like this would have seemed all wrong . |
| 13 | This would have left many people with worthless claims against insolvent companies . |
| 14 | Even this would have demanded more water than could be afforded . |