Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , you must have heard about or seen the horsemen hiding in the trees . |
| 2 | He could think of no man , or woman , in the village that he could have gone to and talked with , and been reassured on the question of his guilt . |
| 3 | But then between the fronds he saw a face , the most beautiful face he could have dreamed of or imagined , a still white face , with long gold lashes on pale cheeks , and a perfect pale mouth . |
| 4 | It is unlikely you can accomplish what generations of warreners may have looked at and scratched their heads over before moving on . |
| 5 | In order to establish the appropriate conditioned responses ( or expectancies ) during the first stage of training , the subjects would have to attend to and discriminate those features that distinguish A from C and those that distinguish B from C. Any plausible mechanism capable of allowing a subject to do this would also endow the subject with an enhanced ability to discriminate between A and B because it would involve the animal in coming to respond to the distinctive features of each of the three stimuli . |
| 6 | It was interesting that at the controversial Chequers seminar on Germany six British and American experts voiced overwhelmingly favourable opinions about Germany and the Germans ( ‘ If Chancellor Kohl had sat in , he would have agreed with or accepted as fair comments 90 per cent of what was said ’ , commented one of them ) . |
| 7 | It is the nurse who will have to decide on whether to evacuate or who to move , how and where . |