Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] have [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may yet have to write the debt off . |
| 2 | After ten years , they may well have reached the zenith of maturity when they know no non-Christian friends at all ! |
| 3 | But for those who could receive a smattering of instruction at home , or who had spent a short while at day schools in their infancy , they may well have nourished a plant that might otherwise have ceased to grow , or even withered . |
| 4 | Left : Most wide waterway craft were built with a more spacious cabin and many boatmen lived on board although they may also have kept a house on shore . |
| 5 | They may however have achieved a realization of theoretical proposals : but we can not be certain about that until further research has been undertaken into the workings of the Household . |
| 6 | They may simply have reflected the population from which they were drawn . |
| 7 | Their mother had warned them to beg for forgiveness when their turn came to pray to their great-grandfather 's spirit before the altar , and it seemed certain to Lan 's ten-year-old mind that if she and her brothers had angered their father so deeply they must also have offended the spirits of their illustrious ancestors too . |
| 8 | All I can say is , I think they must never have spent a night in The Bar if they think that , or never a good night . |
| 9 | They should then have told the representatives , all of whom were present the day before , what they intended to do . |
| 10 | The case they should never have tried The Blue Arrow trial , the second longest in English criminal history , has been widely condemned as a travesty . |
| 11 | But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf . |
| 12 | The growers are unhappy they 'll soon have to travel a lot further than the Vale of Evesham to get help . |
| 13 | They might also have mentioned the hatters who seem to have been organised by 1700 and who had by 1777 a " congress " which made by-laws , extracted fines and sought to limit the number of apprentices masters could take . |
| 14 | They might also have started a family . |
| 15 | They might even have reached the legal officer , Mr. Tony Child . |
| 16 | Again , the trade guilds probably had enough storage space in their own guild-halls for the coffin and cloaks , they might even have had a private stock of candles . |
| 17 | They thoroughly deserved a draw last night and , if luck had been on their side , they might even have won the game . |
| 18 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 19 | Many people do not like working in an atmosphere of petty theft , and while they may not actually inform on their colleagues , they might well have taken the first opportunity to leave . |
| 20 | Ultimately , therefore , even if the big publishers had properly understood how software would be used in classrooms , they might well have found the size of the industry too small to be worth their attention and resources . |
| 21 | His nose and cheekbones protruded as never before , and he was paler than Helen , so pale that no one could possibly call him a darkie or black bastard , though they might legitimately have used the word bastard . |
| 22 | Between them they could probably have established the reason for the failure quite easily . |
| 23 | Manchester City4 , Leeds0 THE WHEELS came off Leeds United 's hitherto solid championship challenge at Maine Road in a match which , paradoxically , they could easily have collected the point they needed to return to the top of the table . |
| 24 | Instead Garvey looked a jaded team and although they pressed hard for long periods , they could well have suffered a heavy defeat after a host of elementary mistakes gave Bann opportunities which should have been punished . |
| 25 | This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause . |
| 26 | It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction . |
| 27 | They could always have had the church watched and perhaps picked up Zoser when he came out . |
| 28 | If anyone is in any doubt that financial questions play an important part in the new arrangements of care in the home and private residential care — or ‘ care in the community ’ as the government would have it — they could usefully have watched the BBC TV Panorama programme ‘ Dumping Granny ’ on 26 April . |
| 29 | But they could never have imagined the extent to which their fame would spread , so much so that today , at certain times of the year , visitors to the spa almost double Baden 's population . |
| 30 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |