Example sentences of "they [modal v] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously he was worried lest they may have sustained some damage by coming into contact with my nasty hard ribs . |
| 2 | All we can know is that no matter how much or how little they may have endured physically , the emotional damage is probably still with them . |
| 3 | AIDS is an everyday topic in the papers and on television ; there is every chance that your children have become interested , even at a young age , but they may have misunderstood things and have some strange ideas . |
| 4 | Metaponto , bordered by golden sandy beaches , is such an ancient town where , according to legend , they may have built the famed and historic Trojan Horse . |
| 5 | Since his privateering interests encouraged him to favour the continuance of war , they may have balanced the pension from Spain in forming his attitude to the peace negotiations . |
| 6 | They may have to ask the Hong Kong Union for financial assistance in order to summon a replacement from home . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , they may have met through me , yes . |
| 8 | It is possible that they may have shot down Plt.Off . |
| 9 | However , even they may have to submit to ‘ national interests ’ on occasion , as was evident in the case of Bradenham . |
| 10 | Well I have to tell the minister that the firms are advertising for detection services all the time , K P M G Peter Marwick advertising this , they will er investigate financial frauds and rectify and recover from them that requires specialised accounting skills , K P M G forensic accounting offers experience in the techniques of fraudsters and the procedures er they may have followed . |
| 11 | But his reservations outweigh his praise : ‘ They may have done some good in creating interest in two people who 've made major innovations in twentieth-century music , but they 've also given a negative impression : that the people involved in this music have serious flaws in their personalities . |
| 12 | His subsequent actions in office , however little they may have done to encourage serious Catholic commitment to the Ulster state , were enough to confirm the conservative Protestant suspicion that O'Neill was another Lundy , prepared to follow the original by opening the gates of unionist Ulster 's walls to the disloyal Catholics and the Irish Republic . |
| 13 | Forgive others for what they may have done to you in the past ; and forgive yourself as well — you have probably learned much from your mistakes . |
| 14 | ‘ They may have done , but we 'll save 'em a journey if they have n't , ’ said Farmer Olinton , ‘ and I do n't think there 's much doubt that it 'll be a wasted journey now if they do come . ’ |
| 15 | As generations followed the pattern of the maze , the earth energies may have illumined their forms in just the way that they may have done with the cup-and-ring marks and the pilgrims ' tracks . |
| 16 | Since most of England south of the Trent was now in a state of cultivation , there was little opportunity for drovers to strike across country and create new lines of movement , though on the moorlands north of the Trent they may have done so . |
| 17 | They may have done so , but they did not make it clear that they had . |
| 18 | But we could n't have any could n't have any had they come on Friday , they may have done . |
| 19 | Further analysis of their data and of additional data for the period from 1970 to 1975 showed that , though the vote for the two main parties had declined in the 1960s , major party identification had not : in other words , electors — whatever they may have done in the polling booths — continued to express a sense of affiliation with one of the two main parties . |
| 20 | They may have done . |
| 21 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ Had we got an early goal and put them under a bit of pressure they may have reacted differently . |
| 23 | When people get it , they may have to go into hospital or a special home , to rest , or perhaps to stay . |
| 24 | ‘ Now my parents realise they may have to go to help with identification . |
| 25 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that many companies find that the loyalty given to them by disabled people more than makes up for any days that they may have to take off work to undergo treatment ? |
| 26 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 27 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 28 | AI also sought clarifications from the Jordanian authorities as to their reason for expelling Muhammad al-Fasi , and any assurances they may have sought or obtained from the Saudi Arabian Government that his human rights would not be violated . |
| 29 | At such moments participants find their ‘ public ’ voice and do not need the kind of protection they may have relied on earlier . |
| 30 | They may have lost their feudal rights and their privy purses , but in many of these formerly-gilded princedoms there remains a powerful bond between ex-rulers and ex-ruled . |