Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMERICA 'S recession may have a silver lining . |
| 2 | Recession may have arrived late north of the border but economic slowdown and the election has pushed devolution or independence to the top of the business agenda and produced an anguished reaction . |
| 3 | The FT-SE 100 Index continued to sail into unchartered waters and a further £3bn flooded into the market on hopes that the recession may have finally blown itself out . |
| 4 | More evidence that the recession may have bottomed out came with news of the first rise in manufacturing output in 26 months . |
| 5 | Although the recession may have hit other parts of the United Kingdom more severely , the search for a job in Northern Ireland today can still be a soul-destroying task , with vacancies often attracting hundreds of applications . |
| 6 | In addition , the current recession may have diverted the union response towards a defensive approach , while undermining the ability of unions to gain substantial increases in their involvement in decision making over new technology areas which managers may defend as their own prerogative . |
| 7 | ‘ The recession may have made a difference in the sense that people are being more realistic about what they can afford , ’ said the magazine 's associate editor Fenella Willis . |
| 8 | I worked out , later , that a ceptor from orbit may have been how my enemy had found the opening in the first place . |
| 9 | difficulties that the primary sufferer may have in concentration id in accuracy of memory . |
| 10 | The sufferer may have significant mood swings , tending always towards depression resulting from the damaged sense of hope and other damaged senses . |
| 11 | The fixed belief that the sufferer may have problems and that these may be a cause of drinking or drug use , but certainly not a consequence of it , is the central psycho-pathology of the disease . |
| 12 | However , the hard part of Operation Restore Hope may have only just begun . |
| 13 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
| 14 | But in view of passages in Revelation like 7:3 which speak of ‘ sealing the servants of God in their fore-heads ’ , and Romans 4:11 which speaks of circumcision as ‘ the sign and seal of being in the right with God through faith ’ , it is not impossible that baptism may have been in the apostle 's mind when he spoke of this sealing with the Spirit . |
| 15 | The Black Prince may have been an unforeseen bonus . |
| 16 | But they are concerned about the psychological effect the experience may have on the girls . |
| 17 | Lack of support during previous clinical experience may have sapped the confidence of the learner . |
| 18 | A spokesman said : ‘ The damage may have been caused by the surf dragging them over the rocks . |
| 19 | If they did not act in order that the plaintiff should suffer damage they are not liable , however selfish their attitude and however inevitable the plaintiff 's damage may have been . |
| 20 | The broad philosophy underlying the system is not at fault , although the somewhat inevitable complexity may have led to a failure to grasp implications of changes in time to prevent the odder features of instability . |
| 21 | The evidence actually tends to be ambiguous ( West 1969 ; Jones 1979b ) as indications of timberwork at the lip of the pit may be connected with the superstructure and planking in the base may have fallen from the walls or roof lining . |
| 22 | Although this was rejected in the previous paper as putting an unacceptable limitation on taxpayers and their accountants , the responses suggest that the perceived balance of advantage may have shifted . |
| 23 | For Bill Leavis , 37 — whose home is being repossessed — the rise may have killed what hope he had . |
| 24 | The rise may have been achieved by shops slashing their prices to attract customers , said Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the CBI 's distributive trades panel . |
| 25 | The division may have been the only way that Chlothild was able to ensure that part of Clovis 's realm passed to her offspring . |
| 26 | Filling in the details on the marriage certificate may have proved a problem for Benjamin : his mother was now past hope in the workhouse , and his father had died when he himself was less than two years old . |
| 27 | Korda may have been touted as a gifted player , but he was hardly a household name . |
| 28 | They also believe that their poor accomodation may have been a factor in loosing the baby . |
| 29 | The plaintiff 's remuneration may have been based partly or even wholly on commission on orders obtained , or in the case of more senior employees upon the turnover of the business or some part of the business . |
| 30 | A taxpayer may have emigrated to the Channel Islands . |