Example sentences of "[that] [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that a patio of ample size will be needed , which could use a combination of pre-cast slabs and new brick paving , or , of you are lucky , some old bricks that may have been in the garden already . |
| 2 | He was booked for a wild foul on Carl Bradshaw , so there was an element of justice when his clearance found Rostron and the Owl-in-exile advanced to equalise with a cross-shot that may have been more cross than shot . |
| 3 | Now the Beaconsfield trio finally release a follow-up on the Creation label — ‘ Philly ’ , which has a few string sounds that may have been influenced by ( or stolen from ) old Philadelphia International disco classics , but which otherwise is a solid gold indie dance tune . |
| 4 | When it closed , a statuesque elderly lady in curly grey hair , several laps of necklaces and a sweeping gown that may have been bombazine ( a word I have often pondered over ) showed clearly by her bold carriage that she was a power behind the Kenny throne . |
| 5 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 6 | Whatever the paths that may have been taken , the relatively late arrival on the human stage of the self-preoccupied consciousness of Indian , Chinese , late Greek , Roman , and European civilizations seems certain . |
| 7 | Of course , gardens have long been maintained in conjunction with historic houses ; what is new is the desire to rescue and restore gardens that may have been abandoned many years ago , as attractions in their own right . |
| 8 | Nevertheless it seems to me that this is a time when we have a chance to examine the utility of A levels in their present form , a chance that may have been missed by the terms of reference of the Higginson Committee . |
| 9 | If the person handling the matter seems to be relying on information given to him by others , it is worth pressing for full and frank disclosure of what they have said and for sight of any written statements or other relevant documents that may have been prepared . |
| 10 | Some 40 per cent of the rural population have no access to a car so that the problem of claiming a benefit that may have been straightforward in town , is very pressing in the country . |
| 11 | They may be able to lend out material about your area in the early part of the century — shops that may have been pulled down , local roads or markets , pictures of young people in clothes of the period . |
| 12 | Some women find , for instance , they can renew old friendships which did n't fit in with their former lives ; interests that may have been put aside many years ago to accommodate someone else can be taken out of mothballs . |
| 13 | Water drains from it rapidly carrying away any soluble plant nutrient that may have been added . |
| 14 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
| 15 | If you tilt your pelvis upwards , your abdomen automatically pulls in and your buttocks tighten , helping to straighten the ‘ S ’ shape that may have been allowed to develop over the years . |
| 16 | According to Mr Horner , ‘ commercial decisions are going to have to take into account the environmental costs of cleaning land that may have been contaminated ’ . |
| 17 | Leaving the ERM is going to involve the loss of international comparisons with related worker groups in Europe , but any benefits that may have been retained through an attitudinal change in the labour market will not become clear until they are tested in the course of an economic upturn . |
| 18 | THE plug has finally been pulled on the London Ambulance Service computer that may have been responsible for up to 20 deaths last week . |
| 19 | Very little is known about the layout of fields or of the ploughs that may have been employed on them . |
| 20 | Sensitive questioning will reveal aspects within the family and about the child that may have been ignored previously . |
| 21 | And cases that may have been tampered with by high-ranking legal figures who feared being exposed will be reviewed . |
| 22 | No 27 in the Historical Arms series , Allied and Enemy Aircraft is a reprint of a rare identification manual published by the French government in 1918 that illustrated 60 aircraft of French , English , American , German , Italian and Belgian origin ( in three-view drawings ) that may have been seen over the trenches during World War One . |
| 23 | A clay model from Arkhanes , and dating from the very end of the Minoan civilization , shows the sort of modest shrine that may have been erected in a sacred enclosure : an oval hut with a conical roof , entrance doors and a cult idol inside . |
| 24 | The presence of some arboreal retentions in early australo- pithecines , and their association with palaeoenvironments that may have been more wooded than has formerly been thought , should also give rise to caution in identifying human origins . |
| 25 | There is nothing more I can do to help them , nor can they collect any low-preference votes that may have been given to them by voters whose higher-preference votes have been given to candidates of other parties . |
| 26 | A well-worn path not marked on the map that may have been an old link between Gawthrop and the track called Long Bank that crosses Middleton Fell , leads to the right of the crags into a slight outcrop of rock marked by a lone hawthorn . |
| 27 | Yet Nixon continued to maintain his innocence : on 22 May , he stated that " I took no part in , nor was I aware of any subsequent effort that may have been made to cover up Watergate . " |
| 28 | After the rug has been clipped , it is washed to remove any dirt that may have been collected during the weaving process and to give the pile its particular " finish " . |
| 29 | Despite its bid for attention , it failed to obtain Minton an ARA , a disappointment that may have been enhanced by the fact that this year Rodrigo Moynihan was made a full Academician . |
| 30 | My judgment rests upon the view that the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |