Example sentences of "they [modal v] have lost " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may have lost their feudal rights and their privy purses , but in many of these formerly-gilded princedoms there remains a powerful bond between ex-rulers and ex-ruled . |
| 2 | They may have lost touch with their friends and have to start again to build up a new social circle . |
| 3 | They may have lost their apostles , but they have the Spirit of the Lord himself remaining with them to teach and to inspire . |
| 4 | But , to judge from the unsureness of their gait , they must have lost their sea legs somewhere between Sheffield and Colchester , perhaps after an incident involving a couple of bottles of Drambuie . |
| 5 | Had the Conservatives lost another general election they might have lost credibility as a potential party of government , and this could well have damaged their role as the integrating force of the political right . |
| 6 | Back home , there 's ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ of a Christmas Number One and a nagging feeling they might have lost the plot . |
| 7 | No it 's all of it even the h and the w I think they might have lost some figures off of it at some time . |
| 8 | Probably they would have lost all the same , but another bowler might have made it much closer . |
| 9 | If the process could eventually be made catalytic , though , they would have lost a money-spinner. h |
| 10 | Previously they would have lost benefit solely for the one day on which they earned above the limit . |
| 11 | If this were to happen in the case of the CAB , they would have lost their primary purpose as first tier advisory agencies ; there would be duplication of effort , waste of public money and , in all probability , deterioration in the quality of specialised advice provided . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I think they would have lost our trail in last night 's snowstorm . |
| 13 | The owners in May , 1973 , had entered into a very advantageous agreement to charter the tanker on completion to Shell for three years , and they would have lost this advantage if the yard carried out its threat . |
| 14 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 15 | But if they changed their portfolio balance , they would have lost out on this upturn , ’ said . |
| 16 | If it had been implemented they would have lost not only their control over the peasantry but also virtually all authority in provincial affairs . |
| 17 | They would have lost each other . |
| 18 | Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine . |
| 19 | They will have lost little time if we do decide that they are too specialist . |