Example sentences of "it [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may 've been found already . ’ |
| 2 | It all happened so quickly — sometimes I think it may have been too quickly . |
| 3 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |
| 4 | Any suggestions for improvements in communications or any critical findings it may have contained were negated by institutional neglect and the ‘ silence ’ which Arendt ( 1958 ) argues is a primary tool of authority operated to effect ! |
| 5 | It may have occurred to some readers already . |
| 6 | It may have been heralded as a strategic disaster , but the Manchester-Sheffield electric route via Woodhead tunnel slipped quietly into oblivion , due ceremony avoided because of the public puzzlement that a heavy freight route should be axed only twenty-five years after complete modernisation . |
| 7 | One hopes that reading it may have good effects , of the kind described by Wordsworth in the 1800 Preface , or more succinctly summed up by Lewis in the conclusion to An Experiment in Criticism , where he says that literature heals the wound without undermining the privilege of individuality . |
| 8 | What Yeroen hoped to gain by his play-acting is not clear , though it may have helped to defuse further aggression . |
| 9 | Having been bitten by PW it may have made Deloitte shy of Touche . |
| 10 | IN A LONG apologia for having had the temerity to undertake a psycho-biography of Mrs Thatcher , Leo Abse denies that his book is a personal attack on her , but agrees that it may have some admonitory function in warning people not to acquiesce too readily in the disposition of someone who would appear , on his argument , to be gravely unbalanced . |
| 11 | With its 14,000 workers , Dagenham may still be the company 's biggest centre of employment in the UK , it may have produced more than 10 million vehicles in the last 60 years and its name may be inseparable from Ford of Britain . |
| 12 | Theories have been put forward that it had anything from 6 to 24 sides , and even that it may have been circular . |
| 13 | Nevertheless it tasted excellent , or it may have been the dry French cider from my waterbottle that improved the taste . |
| 14 | Although the rustic idyll was no doubt the result of wishful thinking , it may have approximated to the real situation in some localities . |
| 15 | But , below the surface , it may have been defeating her , just the same . |
| 16 | She finds it hard to explain why , but ponders that it may have something to do with the religious faith she grew up with . |
| 17 | It may have been ignored since 1981 and left to make do with just two small engines ( and thus no way of cashing in on the ever-increasing popularity of the hot supermini in Britain ) but all that 's changed now . |
| 18 | It may have been largely thanks to Lewis that Williams became something of a cult figure , idolized by pious lady dons , aspirant mystics and others . |
| 19 | If a species is allowed to become extinct , however insignificant it may have appeared to be , that is one potential medication lost to mankind for ever . |
| 20 | It may have rippling effects and result in more general kindness throughout society . |
| 21 | It may have been that the editor did n't know how to cut a scene , or that the financiers called in a hack to re-edit the picture . |
| 22 | Where Whisky Galore ( 1948 , Tight Little Island in US ) depicts a Scottish community determined to outwit officialdom and salvage the whisky from a shipwrecked boat , The Man in the White Suit ( 1951 ) treads into that tricky area for British filmmakers , industrial relations , to suggest that when workers and management come together , it may have more to do with their own selfish interests than those of the broader community . |
| 23 | I 'm not sure whether 40 years later , the same mechanism made the word ‘ capitalism ’ popular among the people ; the Leipzig demonstrations suggest that in Saxony , at least , it may have done . |
| 24 | It may have been revolting but the effect was wonderful . |
| 25 | But like many other paternalistic firms , it may have to become a little meaner to stop its past from handicapping its future . |
| 26 | HE HAD another chance ; it may have been his last . |
| 27 | IF THE Hongkong and Shanghai Bank goes ahead with a takeover of Midland Bank , it may have to replace the pair of bronze lions that grace the entrance to its headquarters with a more appropriate symbol — such as a couple of ducks . |
| 28 | Even where a trustee has misappropriated trust property the fund may still preserve its identity , and , so long as it can be identified , the rights of the beneficiaries will attach to the fund into whatever form it may have been converted by him . |
| 29 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 30 | It may have been the job of the think-tank to think the unthinkable , but such discussion needed to be on the basis of informed examination . |