Example sentences of "they [modal v] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes have been more fundamental and some of them may have affected us in ways that we do not immediately recognise . |
| 2 | It is unlikely to be in exactly the same position , even if she could find it , for during the night there is a great deal of jostling among the youngsters and any one of them may have moved about eighteen inches or so . |
| 3 | Either of them may have seen the killer . |
| 4 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 5 | It is probable that they either crashed or were shot down , although Stirling states that there was evidence that at least some of them may have reached their target . |
| 6 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 7 | ’ The concluding words show that a claim to contribution might arise under the Act of 1935 out of tortious conduct committed by two or more persons even though one or both of them may have committed a crime in the course of such conduct . |
| 8 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 9 | Other long-tail types impair flight and show greater sexual dimorphism , but variation in their initial evolutionary cost suggests differences in how female preferences for them may have evolved . |
| 10 | As for the library , the surviving books without a proper building to house them must have made a dismal appearance . |
| 11 | Apart from the household staffs , many of them must have stayed on since it was the houses themselves that were dissolved , not their economic base , the estates . |
| 12 | There were plenty of people in the pub , and some of them must have overheard Dennis 's vicious mockery of our suggested alternatives , a walk on Shotover or Otmoor , for example . |
| 13 | Many of them must have ended up in a British soldier 's mess-tin . |
| 14 | Five year students , they gave a party for them the other evening about fifty of them must have turned up . |
| 15 | The law sees the case as no different in principle from dealing with a murder in a street by prosecuting everyone who lives in that street , on the basis that one of them must have done it . |
| 16 | The story that one of them must have told a Daily Sketch reporter a year later was that sitting in a West End club and finding the cold unbearable they had decided to go somewhere warm . |
| 17 | Mozart and his contemporaries , who ( unlike the English ) had no continuous tradition of listening to baroque music , found it sparse in texture in a way that to them must have seemed musically primitive . |
| 18 | As for the countryside , the main complaint of the wage labourer was of underemployment and at certain seasons of the agricultural calendar many of them must have wished they did not have time on their hands . |
| 19 | Many of them must have died in infancy and childhood , but we have no data on deaths before 1951 . |
| 20 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 21 | Writing on the boys ' club movement in 1904 , W. J. Braithwaite thought that ‘ itis dangerous for the club and the boys that many of them should have tasted too much of freedom ’ . |
| 22 | The British Horse Society is anxious to find out why a third of them should have happened in this year alone . |
| 23 | The police took the immediate neighbours into their confidence out of sheer necessity , hoping one of them might have seen or heard something significant the previous Tuesday ; but none had . |
| 24 | In theory , during this period their potential to adapt technology to source inputs locally ( as had occurred in Biafra during the civil war ) , rather than to import them might have given them a competitive edge over the large manufacturing companies managed and partly owned from overseas . |
| 25 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
| 26 | Each of them might have engaged a separate average adjuster to advise him : had these not agreed , a dispute could have arisen between the parties which they might have submitted to arbitrationa somewhat unusual course in business of this kind . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm almost sure they said Brittany , although some of them might have gone to Bordeaux . |
| 28 | Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora . |
| 29 | Coach Dick Best ruefully remarked : ‘ I guess if they 'd been Gloucester boys half of them might have turned out ’ . |
| 30 | They looked after each other , that was all , as each of them might have cared for a pet and been solicitous for its well-being . |