Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful for this opportunity to clarify any uncertainty that may have resulted from this case , the specific circumstances which lay behind it and the way in which it had to be decided . |
| 2 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 3 | Desmond Morris later drew attention to several signals that resemble activities produced by the autonomic nervous system such as auditory signals ( shouts ) that may have evolved from rapid automatic breathing , and even the scent-marking by urine at territory boundaries in mammals . |
| 4 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 5 | He had a lean face and dark eyes that might have come from either his Gaelic or Jewish ancestry . |
| 6 | Just consider the additional impact that might have come from more popular scheduled kick-off times ( floodlit games all round ? ) when , again in ABC1 men ratings , New Zealand v Italy ‘ scored ’ 11 per cent , Wales v Argentine 16 per cent , France v Canada 11 per cent , New Zealand v Canada 13 per cent and Australia v New Zealand 16 per cent . |
| 7 | After a few minutes , his breathing quickened and he started making noises that might have come from a monkey-house at feeding time . |
| 8 | He took rehearsals in an ancient overcoat that might have come from Gogol 's dustbin . |
| 9 | Curiously husky , his voice beguiled her ears as powerfully as his hands were seducing her body , caressing her naked skin beneath her simple top , tantalising the sensitised surface , warm and demanding , seeking the clasp of her flesh-coloured bra , dismantling it with a sure touch that might have come from practice but could equally well have been attributed to simple deduction , except that nothing was simple about this man who had already knowingly conquered her body … åd , unknowingly , her heart as well . |
| 10 | He called for ‘ democracy through good behaviour ’ , a maxim that could have come from the mouth of Chairman Mao . |
| 11 | It was not a whistle that could have come from human lips , but a chilling scalpel shriek he had heard only once before in the Fifth Dominion , when , some two hundred years past , his then possessor , the Maestro Sartori , had conjured from the In Ovo a familiar which had made such a whistle . |
| 12 | Gravel on the shoes that could have come from the Cathedral . |
| 13 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 14 | Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow . |
| 15 | enough to have a oak coffin that would have come from somewhere else everybody got the same . |
| 16 | Furthermore , they 're they can ca n't get any information on deaths that would have occurred from injuries after the war . |
| 17 | The diversity and volume of silver bearing his mark is far greater than can have emerged from a single workshop and it has been generally acknowledged , after a century dominated by the concept of the maker 's mark , that De Lamerie , in common with many other goldsmiths registering marks at Goldsmiths ' Hall , not only fulfilled orders with other goldsmiths ' wares but also subcontracted orders to a range of London workshops , although striking the finished wares with his own punch . |
| 18 | Then one of her aides came along and must have thought from the name Adams that I was a nationalist . |
| 19 | The dark cream also sets off the bright red roses well — had I chosen a white satin , card or fabric in a similar shade it would have been too bright and could have detracted from the frame . |
| 20 | Although he was obviously placed carefully on to the sofa , the freshly pomaded hair is awry and could have benefited from a comb prior to being photographed . |
| 21 | Had it been accepted , the District would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 22 | Will he rediscover some electronic equivalent of the metaphor of the arch , and realize that computers could not have sprung spontaneously into existence but must have originated from some earlier process of cumulative selection ? |
| 23 | In this connection , he claims that an increase in the number of myelomas ( tumour of the bone marrow ) in the area during the 1970s would not have been expected as a result of iodine-131 contamination , but could have arisen from ingestion of polonium-210 , an alpha emitter . |