Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the DOE may have to build new reactors at a cost of 8 billion dollars , and it will be ten years before these are ready . |
| 2 | Thomas Arnold , although the significance and peculiarity of his personal achievement at Rugby may have been exaggerated , typified the attempt to meet the demands of a rising middle class by moving the local grammar schools into the national , or ‘ public ’ , category . |
| 3 | If battle fatigue sets in , Mr Biedenkopf may have reason for optimism . |
| 4 | Indeed , as the price of Valois support Isabella may have offered to renounce her son 's claim to the French crown . |
| 5 | Moodie may have been a priest but in death his body had been laid out like some broken toy to lie on a shelf , the grimacing features half-hidden by a dirty cloth ; the eyes still open , sightless and empty . |
| 6 | The appointment of Diana Brooks may have radical implications for the management structure of Sotheby 's London house . |
| 7 | Oldham 's task at Gateshead may have been eased by the Tynesiders ' dismissal earlier this week of their American guard , Darryl Thomas . |
| 8 | The consequence of what Nicholls may have intended as a politic and eirenical statement was suspension , degradation , and imprisonment . |
| 9 | Pat said , " I gather Bert thinks this comrade the one Jasper was talking to at Melstead may have some useful leads . " |
| 10 | The government 's motive in attacking enclosures was not simply disinterested concern for justice for the poor , although Wolsey may have been anxious about their welfare . |
| 11 | Bram Stoker may have been a genial enough fellow externally , but he knew how to find a place which would match the chill in the soul of his novel . |
| 12 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 13 | Derby start 2-1 down to Cambridge and Villa defend the same score at Wolves , where Taylor may have to trust in another piece of sports sagacity . |
| 14 | Peter Drucker may have overstated his case when he observed that ‘ capital movements rather than trade … have become the driving force of the world economy ’ ( Drucker , 1986 : p. 768 ) , but he has pointed the finger at a central issue in the global environment . |
| 15 | ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time . |
| 16 | Sweet Frances may have been the lass ‘ more bright than May-day morn ’ when the song was written , but she was also tragically short lived . |
| 17 | At Hamilton Terrace Minton may have been relieved , after the turmoil of Bedford Gardens , to find himself sharing with someone who came from a similar background . |
| 18 | Minton may have selected which title he was to illustrate , as Le Grand Meaulnes , formerly translated as The Lost Domain , was a book he recommended to friends . |
| 19 | Outrageously camp and very witty , Paul was an habitué of the Colony Room where he and Minton may have first met . |
| 20 | They believe Mr MacDonald may have been involved in some kind of argument shortly before his death . |
| 21 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 22 | A pot of hubris at the rainbow 's end : Fukuyama may have miscalculated ‘ the end of history ’ by discounting religion , says Eamon Duffy |
| 23 | And Coppell may have to pair his £100,000 capture from non-League Sutton with another rookie , 18-year-old Grant Watts , who came on as a half-time substitute at QPR last Saturday . |
| 24 | Reluctantly , I think Chelsea may have a better season . |
| 25 | Nigel Lawson may have won his prime minister the 1987 election , but it has become ever more clear that he let his boom run on too long and too strong thereafter . |
| 26 | Felix may have died in his seventeenth year or Thomas in his fifth . |
| 27 | Although a CU may have implications for both internal and external economies of scale , the emphasis is normally placed upon the technical aspect of internal economies . |
| 28 | But whatever reservations Moscow may have about the latest changes in Budapest , Mr Gorbachev must be aware that the old party would have been annihilated in next year 's elections . |
| 29 | Moscow may have been concerned in particular about the global and regional repercussions of a prolonged Iran-Iraq war and the opportunities this provided the West . |
| 30 | Whatever Aachen may have been in the past , it has settled down now to being a prosperous commercial town with few pretensions . |