Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instability was greatest at periods of high sedimentation at the onset of deglaciation , when ice sheets reached or may even have extended beyond the shelf break . |
| 2 | A beat that sets out for a destination may have to renavigate on the way or may even have to change destination . |
| 3 | Perhaps Edward indeed was reluctant to embark on that wholesale hanging ; or may merely have assessed that this way he would force the Scots army into a rash and costly attack which he could repulse , and then get Berwick 's surrender . |
| 4 | — With Mr. Gould all this is very different — he has sufficient to live on , whether his subscribers pay or not , & can well afford the innumerable little expenses of printing — but for poor I — I have just nine and twenty times resolved to give up Parrots & all — & should certainly have done so — had not my good genius with vast reluctance just 9 & 20 times set me a going again . ’ |
| 5 | Other unions which had either supported the earlier feasibility study , or might otherwise have been expected to be sympathetic , came up with only feeble amounts . |
| 6 | Wages that you earn or could reasonably have earned during your notice period will be taken into account when assessing compensation . |
| 7 | Awarding the damages , with costs , against London Underground , which accepted liability but contested the amount , Mr Justice Otton said : ‘ Mr Hale is probably one of the most courageous men I have ever had , or shall ever have , the privilege of meeting . |
| 8 | If a form E111 had been obtained from Department of Health and Social Security , prior to departure , then the claimant should not have to pay the bill or would only have to pay a proportion of the bill at the hospital/clinic , where the treatment was received . |
| 9 | It can also be argued that there are many references in the Old Testament to conditions that may well have been syphilis . |
| 10 | Like Julian , perhaps , Teresa also had an illness that may well have had a psychological aspect and which brought her to the brink of death ; her autobiography and spiritual writings show how she brought herself a physical and spiritual healing . |
| 11 | The Ariadne carried an immense and , to the uninitiated , quite bewildering variety of looking and listening instruments that may well have been unmatched by any naval ship afloat . |
| 12 | It is possible that those who are ‘ destined ’ to develop reflux oesophagitis have predisposing oesophageal motor abnormalities that may well have an inherited component . |
| 13 | It is rather Britain that has chosen the Italian road and opted for a one-party state that may soon have more difficulty in government than it imagines . |
| 14 | It is clear that some elderly patients can benefit from surgery that may previously have been denied on the grounds of age alone . |
| 15 | Where Musgrove and John Hopkins , who put it all together , got lucky was that they chronicled a period of success that may never have been equalled , let alone exceeded , by any British golfer . |
| 16 | Now , without constraints , it is possible to develop and explore aspects of ourselves that may never have emerged before . |
| 17 | Having observed his or her own former situation by means of regression , the patent will then during the course of a counselling session have the opportunity to discuss what happened ( something that may never have been done before ) , to express anger at the perpetrator and possibly at others who may have guessed what was going on but perhaps did nothing to prevent it , and to understand that he or she was in no way to blame for what occurred . |
| 18 | Fragments found in the southern sector and in the north-west corner of the Knossos Labyrinth belonged to pairs of sacral horns that may originally have been a metre or more high . |
| 19 | But , paradoxically perhaps , this greater tolerance may result in less fragmentation , more coherence , and less subjection to the forms of anxiety or guilt or compulsive behaviour that may once have been so deeply disturbing or threatening . |
| 20 | If t re is one country that should never have gambled in this game , i is Britain . |
| 21 | That particular question is , of course , one that should never have arisen . |
| 22 | Yet this is a debate that should never have happened . |
| 23 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 25 | I could live comfortably with the knowledge of those nights with Fergus that should never have happened . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's a sham of a marriage that should never have taken place , and you 're doing no one any harm . |
| 27 | There 's another screech of brakes , and a van that should never have escaped out the scrapyard collapses shuddering in the road . |
| 28 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 29 | It was an error that should never have happened . |
| 30 | This is also a very violent film in parts that should rightly have a 15 not 12 rating and parents are strongly advised to bear this in mind . |