Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 2 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 3 | I very much doubt whether Wolfgang will find there all those things which he has imagined and the great advantages which several people may perhaps have described to him . |
| 4 | Kirkman and Hendy , the Earl of Camden 's agents , may merely have responded to the College 's advertisement , but another explanation for their involvement seems possible . |
| 5 | ( His father 's occupation is particularly significant , because the invention of the mechanical clock must presumably have depended on the co-operation of the learned man , probably a monk , who first thought of it and the blacksmith who actually constructed it . ) |
| 6 | Ellis believed that the women 's movement had taken a wrong turn in demanding equality with men in the public sphere and should rather have worked for the elevation of motherhood . |
| 7 | But I would like to mention that conflicting evidence is not always the result of a social worker being inexperienced and taken in easily by appearances when he or she should obviously have checked with an independent source . |
| 8 | ‘ And yet to have been there and heard none of the holy words which we should naturally have listened for from those lips at such a time — how distressing ! ’ |
| 9 | But about a year ago she had begun to remember incidents which she must hitherto have blocked from her mind . |
| 10 | Work on drilling more than 100 anchors should already have started by the time you read this . |
| 11 | Had that guess of 3% proved right , GDP should comfortably have expanded by the same amount . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't see fit to compound this tragedy by adding to the deep distress that the incident must already have caused to you , the deceased 's relatives and others , ’ he said . |
| 13 | This means that a child acquiring language who does not yet know what chair means but will acquire the knowledge must already have represented in his ‘ language of thought ’ a predicate of the kind ‘ is a portable seat for one ’ . |
| 14 | He must already have begun to be aware that his dependency on alcohol was weakening his creative drive . |
| 15 | If so , that Hidden Master must already have known about the hydra . |
| 16 | The very idea of being ‘ off the record ’ was nonsense , since the room was almost certainly wired , but George should still have stuck to protocol and said something polite like Oh yes , of course . |
| 17 | Their place in a group dominated by the Catholics no doubt reflected the regent 's desire for consent from Catholic and protestant alike ; and as yet she saw little reason to fear the Protestants , who must still have seemed to her far less of a threat than the strong Huguenot party in France . |
| 18 | Unlike most doctors , he saw it , not as the final enemy , but as a fascinating enigma , each cadaver , which he would gaze at with the same intent look as he must once have fixed on his living patients , a new piece of evidence which might , if rightly interpreted , bring him closer to its central mystery . |
| 19 | Eva also insisted on Dad improving the service : she got him to consult esoteric library books early in the morning before work and asked him at breakfast , in a voice which must once have enquired of Charlie if he 'd done his technical-drawing homework , ‘ And what did you learn this morning ? ’ |
| 20 | She had remained her strong English self , and in truth she did put up with a good deal for in her terms a scholar 's life must always have stood for a life of privation , which would explain the furious resolve that clenched the lines in her face . |
| 21 | And Daine must always have identified with the Napoleon of crime . |
| 22 | Psychology has recently gained the respectability it should always have had with respect to pain , for two completely irrelevant reasons . |
| 23 | There was no reason why Kenamun should ever have known about his meeting with Surere . |
| 24 | ‘ Despite the variation in language of the various judges , the principle of Donoghue v. Stevenson [ [ 1932 ] A.C. 562 ] as appears from the examination of these authorities imposes tortious liability on a person who performs some careless act which may injure any person whom he should reasonably have had in contemplation as being likely to be injured in consequence of his carelessness and who in fact is injured by his careless act . |
| 25 | Of course since the shielings were here to provide summer grazing for their cattle , the villages must also have echoed to people splashing about in mud and dung , and laments of , ‘ Dad , I hate these smelly big things . |
| 26 | This must also have secured for Oswiu an important diplomatic contact with the Kentish court of King Eorcenberht ( 640–64 ) , son of Eadbald , and re-established the former relationship which had prevailed in the time of Eadwine and Eadbald . |
| 27 | ( m ) The question of reliance It is not enough that the seller knows of the particular purpose of the goods sold , the buyer must also have relied upon the credit-broker or seller 's skill and judgment at the date of the contract . |
| 28 | Mining settlements must also have existed at Dolaucothi and in the vicinity of Pentre in Flintshire , in association with the known reserves of gold and lead respectively , while a site at Carsington has recently been tentatively identified as Lutudarum , the headquarters of a mining company of that name , which operated the lead mines of the Peak District . |
| 29 | Readers can be expected to spot which of these quotations are forgeries , and they must also have doubted in their time whether this writer was as good as the early tributes made out . |
| 30 | The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’ |