Example sentences of "children [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The irrationality of forcing undernourished women to bear children ought to have been obvious without the additional disincentives which the regime 's economic and social policies created . |
| 2 | ‘ A major clue about how cancer develops in children may have been found ’ |
| 3 | Some parents , who as children may have been afraid of school or bored by it , may only see education as relevant if their children are finding education unthreatening . |
| 4 | The prospect that perhaps hundreds of black and Asian children may have been wrongly consigned to special schools because of a failure properly to understand their needs is one which education authorities have been reluctant to confront . |
| 5 | AN INVESTIGATION into allegations that dozens of black and Asian children may have been wrongly sent to special schools in Strathclyde region has been initiated by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 6 | According to research conducted by Strathclyde educational psychologists , statistical evidence indicated that several dozen Asian and black children may have been unfairly designated as having severe or profound learning difficulties . |
| 7 | The gonk scared the hell out of me , so his effect on the children must have been even greater ; but it was a super weekend , in spite of everything ; hill-walking , climbing , canoeing , and I even managed to drag some of the boys and girls off on a fishing expedition . |
| 8 | Some of the children must have been taken on subsequent to harrowing , tearful , interviews with mothers with babies in arms , or even the children themselves . |
| 9 | Former nurse Joan Young , from Darlington , explains : ‘ Most children must have been told not to pick dandelions when they were younger or else they would wet the bed . |
| 10 | Just quiet , controlled anger that the children should have been so arbitrarily removed to places where they had nothing loved or familiar , and no one to turn to . |
| 11 | I realise your main worry is that she or the children might have been infected with the AIDS virus . |
| 12 | Of course , these children might have been interpreted according to overly lax canons — compare our discussion of chimp gesture above . |
| 13 | Although such behaviour corresponds closely to the descriptions of other feral children , it is impossible to know whether these children might have developed similar patterns of behaviour even if brought up in greater contact with people , and it has been suggested that feral children might have been abandoned by their parents because of their behaviour problems . |
| 14 | In particular , he fails to comment on the fact that eighty-five per cent of the seven-year-olds passed item ( 1 ) — a fact which suggests that even younger children might have been capable of passing this item , especially if it had been presented in an oral rather than a written form . |
| 15 | His daughters , as though obedient to some unspoken command , grouped themselves around him in what in older children could have been a conscious gesture of family solidarity . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's entirely possible women and children could have been killed . ’ |
| 17 | If there had been no question of acquiescence in this case , these children would have been returned to Australia pursuant to the order of Thorpe J. shortly after it was made on 20 December 1991 . |
| 18 | Even conversation like me and you talking here , the children would have been put outside |