Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have give " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was internal bleeding that could n't be stopped even with the drip and the injections Sophie must have given . ’ |
| 2 | Colin was on City 's books in the 1960s and the 77th-minute winner must have given him a kick . |
| 3 | The popular image of the absent-minded , long-haired professor may have given way in recent years to the well-suited , urbane telly-don , but college teachers are still often represented as colourful , eccentric and even controversial figures : exotic creatures , trapped in a forlorn struggle between an unfeeling college bureaucracy on the one hand and an unthinking — nay , an invincible — student ignorance on the other . |
| 4 | The International Publishers Association may have given us a pointer in the right direction with the publication this year of its Charter for the Reader . |
| 5 | Now Marie may have to give up her job because Lucy 's gran can not travel to the new school . |
| 6 | Thus , when the police officer comes to make his decision he must do so knowing of the defendant 's preference and any reason the defendant may have given for it . |
| 7 | This 28-day programme should have given you the opportunity to come to terms with your body . |
| 8 | But by expressing his views in this way , Scott must have given his clients a clear indication of the type of building he wanted to build . |
| 9 | So the coalition should have given a reasoned reply , welcoming the offer to withdraw and saying that all the other issues are open for discussion once the withdrawal has taken place and a cease-fire is in operation . |
| 10 | Fenna might have given her both appetite and menstruation in his parting , but neither of them seemed as though they were worth the effort . |
| 11 | The irony was that , by dismissing as irrelevant all talk of the Tyrrell Society , he had closed his eyes to the vital clue Rex Cunningham could have given him : the identity of the man whose photograph Clare Mallender had carried about with her . |
| 12 | Dr Neil could have given her several answers , beginning with the beautiful hands lying in her lap which had visibly never done a stroke of work in their owner 's life , but said instead , ‘ A strange place for a young lady like yourself to look for it . ’ |
| 13 | Presumably , the estate agent would have given him a lift somewhere . |
| 14 | Had he done that — and this is advice every sensible lawyer would have given to him — he might have been able to return to public life without the long and painful period of atonement to which he was exposed . |
| 15 | In Britain similarly parties would have to give careful attention to the locality factor . |
| 16 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 17 | These and other strange animals would have given Olduvai a unique ambience , but the basic framework of the present-day savannah environment had already been established . |
| 18 | Schools will have to give ‘ substantially more time ’ to science to meet the requirements of the national curriculum , the inspectors added . |
| 19 | Peter Alliss might have given up competitive golf in the early 1970s but he still a formidable force out on the course . |
| 20 | An immediate offensive might have given victory in Scotland and enabled him to march into England , where Thomas Forster and the Earl of Derwentwater were trying to raise the northern shires on behalf of the Jacobites . |
| 21 | It must be accepted that at the end of the interview the child may have given no information to support the suspicion of [ sexual ] abuse and the position will remain unclear . |
| 22 | The girl must have given him the elbow , Harriet decided . |
| 23 | If you still feel very strongly that the Council should have given your child a place , you can appeal to the Sheriff against the Appeal Committee 's decision . |
| 24 | Secondly , that transfer must have given rise to rights in the individual who makes it . |
| 25 | Although Mikhailichenko should have given them a 15th-minute lead , Marseille increasingly controlled the game . |
| 26 | To think that the selfsame parents could have given birth to the two of us , she says . |
| 27 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 28 | That was the opportunity that Maastricht could have given us . |
| 29 | They said the original $750 million proposal would have given BA wide entry into the US market but restricted US airlines in the UK . |
| 30 | The three biggest US carriers , American Airlines , United Airlines and Delta Airlines , had hoped that approval of the BA-USAir deal would have been linked to their gaining a bigger foothold in the UK market and argued that the original $750 million proposal would have given BA wide entry into the US market while restricting US airlines from further expansion into the UK . |