Example sentences of "that [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
| 2 | This means that a patio of ample size will be needed , which could use a combination of pre-cast slabs and new brick paving , or , of you are lucky , some old bricks that may have been in the garden already . |
| 3 | He was booked for a wild foul on Carl Bradshaw , so there was an element of justice when his clearance found Rostron and the Owl-in-exile advanced to equalise with a cross-shot that may have been more cross than shot . |
| 4 | Now the Beaconsfield trio finally release a follow-up on the Creation label — ‘ Philly ’ , which has a few string sounds that may have been influenced by ( or stolen from ) old Philadelphia International disco classics , but which otherwise is a solid gold indie dance tune . |
| 5 | And so the telegram was sent , a come-uppance which deserves quotation as an act that may have saved the world from early extinction by sheer megalomania : ‘ I deeply regret that it becomes my duty as president and Commander-in-Chief of the United States military forces to replace you as Supreme Commander , Allied Powers ; Commander-in-Chief , United Nations Command ; Commander-in-Chief , Far East ; and Commanding General , U. S. Army Far East . |
| 6 | When it closed , a statuesque elderly lady in curly grey hair , several laps of necklaces and a sweeping gown that may have been bombazine ( a word I have often pondered over ) showed clearly by her bold carriage that she was a power behind the Kenny throne . |
| 7 | This old ballad contains lines that may have inspired a blue-grass ditty of the Kentucky mountains , ‘ Roll in My Sweet Baby 's Arms ’ . |
| 8 | However , it seems that when an egg is produced , it carries no memory of any differentiation that may have occurred in the organism that produced it . |
| 9 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 10 | Among the mechanisms that may have evolved to resolve genetic conflicts are sex , Mendelian genetics , the existence of two sexes , the rarity of hermaphroditism and the equality of the sex ratio . |
| 11 | They will examine the way election polling was done and factors that may have influenced the findings , such as the declining proportion of people willing to answer interviewers ' questions . |
| 12 | Whatever the paths that may have been taken , the relatively late arrival on the human stage of the self-preoccupied consciousness of Indian , Chinese , late Greek , Roman , and European civilizations seems certain . |
| 13 | The nautiloids achieved their widest range of adaptations and greatest variety of form in the Ordovician and Silurian periods , with various coiled forms , straight , pipe-like forms , and curious dumpy species with restricted apertures that may have adopted a sluggish ( possible filter-feeding ) mode of life . |
| 14 | Of course , gardens have long been maintained in conjunction with historic houses ; what is new is the desire to rescue and restore gardens that may have been abandoned many years ago , as attractions in their own right . |
| 15 | After primary school , the encouragement of the imagination in children , and the cultivation of specifically creative activities , has often been thought an optional part of the curriculum , a luxury that may have to be dispensed with , left in , if at all , for the less able pupils deemed incapable of serious learning or for that minority determined to reject ‘ scientific ’ understanding . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it seems to me that this is a time when we have a chance to examine the utility of A levels in their present form , a chance that may have been missed by the terms of reference of the Higginson Committee . |
| 17 | If the person handling the matter seems to be relying on information given to him by others , it is worth pressing for full and frank disclosure of what they have said and for sight of any written statements or other relevant documents that may have been prepared . |
| 18 | Some 40 per cent of the rural population have no access to a car so that the problem of claiming a benefit that may have been straightforward in town , is very pressing in the country . |
| 19 | They may be able to lend out material about your area in the early part of the century — shops that may have been pulled down , local roads or markets , pictures of young people in clothes of the period . |
| 20 | Some women find , for instance , they can renew old friendships which did n't fit in with their former lives ; interests that may have been put aside many years ago to accommodate someone else can be taken out of mothballs . |
| 21 | The implications of the new technological revolution go far beyond the silicon chip and its offspring , a message that may have penetrated as far as Kenneth Baker , Britain 's Minister for Information Technology . |
| 22 | For example , sightings of UAPs should be concentrated around active fault zones ; there should be more in hilly terrain ; reservoirs with their attendant stresses on the rock should be focal points for the effect ; and the passage of masses of air , such as cold fronts , should release any strain that may have built up . |
| 23 | One firm that may have bucked that trend is Star Computers , which has raised some £770000 by selling shares on the Stock Exchange . |
| 24 | Water drains from it rapidly carrying away any soluble plant nutrient that may have been added . |
| 25 | It would certainly be easier to mitigate the effects of such a drought if long-range forecasting could be made more effective , and although there is as yet no secure basis for the kind of forecasting required , an analysis of the causes of the latest drought offers some hope of explanations that may have predictive value in future . |
| 26 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
| 27 | One of the reasons behind this seemingly illogical situation in such an over-populated area is that councils are not legally allowed to take into account small sites ( aptly termed ‘ wind-full ’ sites ) that may have become derelict or vacant which actually provide a large amount of free land . |
| 28 | It can be dangerous for one to stay with his gun while the other returns to the task of retrieving the ferrets that may have emerged in the meantime . |
| 29 | At the same time he checks the mouth for any other problems that may have evolved since his previous visit and , because every month is different , he can give valuable advice to the horse owner on the shape of the mouth and type of bit most suitable for the individual horse . |
| 30 | Fanning the eggs with her fins helps to circulate aerated water over the eggs and also waft away anything that may have settled on them . |