Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] have [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if he started talking Buddhism at them , they may well have taken fright . ’ |
| 2 | They may also have to devote energy searching for services to which the child has a right . |
| 3 | He believed they may also have exploded blast bombs . |
| 4 | Usually , these men 's urine flow will be abnormally slow , even in the absence of prostatic enlargement , and they may always have had difficulty urinating in a public place , according to Graham Watson , who runs a prostatitis clinic at the London Institute of Urology . |
| 5 | They should never have taken part in something so unnatural . |
| 6 | They might well have had experience at second hand of Russian trade goods , and thus have resolved to pay tribute to obtain these benefits . |
| 7 | The Roman refining techniques were such that they could easily have produced silver containing only traces of copper ( under 1 per cent ) . |
| 8 | The hedges suggested that , in May , they could well have obstructed vision . |
| 9 | Professor Mathias correctly sees the high demand of the war years for cereals as keeping agricultural wages up with prices , but they started from such a low level that in years of scarcity like 1795 and 1801 they could hardly have sustained life . |
| 10 | West Dorset District Council , for instance , was refusing to house people evicted from winter-lets unless they qualified for housing prior to entering such accommodation , even though in this case they would presumably have sought council accommodation in the first place ( Larkin 1979 ) . |
| 11 | Had she not taken her weight off them they would simply have given way . |
| 12 | ‘ . Of course , had the wind been very gusty before , they would already have stopped flying , or they would have taken extra precautions to make sure that there were enough people to prevent an incident . |
| 13 | Already there were six in one bed , three at the top and three at the bottom , and they would soon have to make room for Matt , the boy born before she took in Corrie . |
| 14 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 15 | There is no reason to expect that they will necessarily have developed cancer of the bladder : the same gene seems to be associated with tumours of the lung , gut , and other tissues ( Nature vol 300 , p 539 ) . |
| 16 | They will then have to get money from the dole or the Benefits Agency , which will cost taxpayers a great deal more on top of the £25 billion that the state is already paying out for the unemployed . |
| 17 | They will now have to license Unix from Novell in order to compete against them . |