Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the DOE may have to build new reactors at a cost of 8 billion dollars , and it will be ten years before these are ready . |
| 2 | Indeed , as the price of Valois support Isabella may have offered to renounce her son 's claim to the French crown . |
| 3 | The consequence of what Nicholls may have intended as a politic and eirenical statement was suspension , degradation , and imprisonment . |
| 4 | Derby start 2-1 down to Cambridge and Villa defend the same score at Wolves , where Taylor may have to trust in another piece of sports sagacity . |
| 5 | Peter Drucker may have overstated his case when he observed that ‘ capital movements rather than trade … have become the driving force of the world economy ’ ( Drucker , 1986 : p. 768 ) , but he has pointed the finger at a central issue in the global environment . |
| 6 | Minton may have selected which title he was to illustrate , as Le Grand Meaulnes , formerly translated as The Lost Domain , was a book he recommended to friends . |
| 7 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 8 | A pot of hubris at the rainbow 's end : Fukuyama may have miscalculated ‘ the end of history ’ by discounting religion , says Eamon Duffy |
| 9 | And Coppell may have to pair his £100,000 capture from non-League Sutton with another rookie , 18-year-old Grant Watts , who came on as a half-time substitute at QPR last Saturday . |
| 10 | Nigel Lawson may have won his prime minister the 1987 election , but it has become ever more clear that he let his boom run on too long and too strong thereafter . |
| 11 | Felix may have died in his seventeenth year or Thomas in his fifth . |
| 12 | Brampton may have fought for Edward IV during the political upheavals of 1469–71 . |
| 13 | Tiny Rowland may have become a bore with his obsession over DTI 's failure to publish the report on the House of Fraser — but on this occasion he is on the side of the Gods . |
| 14 | Well , Peckham may have recommended him , but it fell to the new Freeman himself to pay his own 46s. 8d . |
| 15 | Jim may have known the assailant or he may have entered the house either quietly or under a pretence |
| 16 | For all we in the 20th. century know , Plato may have dreamed all the conversations with Socrates . |
| 17 | Doctors fear Mrs Conlan may have taken her daughter away because she thinks further treatment is futile . |
| 18 | International : Najibullah may have fled Kabul |
| 19 | Firbank spent the first ten years of his life at his family 's new home , The Coopers , Chislehurst — a village whose connections with the exiled Empress Eugénie may have influenced his enduring fascination with both royalty and Catholicism . |
| 20 | Marlon may have got involved in a noble cause , but it got a lot of people 's backs up in the business . |
| 21 | Roger may have played a significant part in raising funds for the enterprise . |
| 22 | Here , with my seal-profile friend Fairfax , in the sight of the Mountain of God , I see that Victoria may have had a point . |
| 23 | Stirling may have laid down the principles , but it was Lewes who had trained the men to put them into practice . |
| 24 | Even so , Warner may have made a ‘ profit ’ out of the film after all , by charging itself a huge distribution fee . |
| 25 | Dame Janet Baker may have announced her retirement from public performance , but she still plans to make one or two recordings . |
| 26 | Look Tony and Bernard may have found out what their job is the hard way , but Barbara certainly know . |
| 27 | Whatever Churchill may have said , most of Labour 's leaders were less ambitious , demanding only the addition of steeply progressive taxation to the existing apparatus of wartime control of industry . |
| 28 | Writing this in 1757 , at the beginning of the Seven Years War , Malachi Postlethwayt may have failed to prophesy the exact sequence of war and peace , but he perceived clearly enough the interactions between war , debt and taxation which largely determined the public policy of Hanoverian England . |
| 29 | RISC is the right word — DEC may have got everything right first time , but as a third party with a choice , you 'd have to be pretty desperate to bet the shop on it . |
| 30 | All Germany may have worshipped him — but not the von Brombergs . |