Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS of no great consequence to the rest of the world that a small island off the end of the Indian subcontinent should have sunk over the past couple of decades into a condition of violence so endemic that the murder of the president and a leading opposition politician within eight days can be regarded by the locals with something like equanimity ( see page 71 ) . |
| 2 | Do you think David Mellor should have resigned over the sex scandal ? |
| 3 | In a letter to President Eisenhower , Sir Anthony compared Nasser to Mussolini , and it was revealed that he had felt that the Government should have resigned over the issue . |
| 4 | ‘ Bragad 's men hold it , and all in it ; his ‘ Wares must have come over the ramparts in the night . ’ |
| 5 | To have reached this position , he must have somersaulted over the bull 's head . |
| 6 | If he had indeed come up here determined to end his life , then he might have climbed over the guard rail , leaving a scrap of thread behind as he did so . |
| 7 | They could have gone over the top you know , I think , I 'm sure they could , I 'm certain they could . |
| 8 | ‘ Anything could have happened over the last few days . ’ |
| 9 | What if that slave could have triumphed over the tube that confined him ? |
| 10 | The men collect it and know that of the children doing it , you would think that they 'd have noticed over the years , that at the end of each month it says , on the readers ' list it says children and I think that |
| 11 | You may have noticed over the last three slides that several of sites have had a zero er percentage registered and we certainly feel that in a couple of these sites this was probably due to poor note-keeping rather than a percentage . |
| 12 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International , released to coincide with the anniversary and cataloguing a history of discrimination , violence and injustice , stated that " the mass killings of indigenous peoples may have reduced over the past 500 years but they have never stopped " . |
| 13 | Up to 1,500 Indians may have died over the last two years as a result of the gold miners ' presence on their land . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the pressing need for a dynamic pope to exploit the political vacuum left by the unexpected death of the Emperor Henry VI and the advantages of a third Roman pope in a row may have won over the opposition — and there may have been those impressed by his vigorous views on the papacy 's role . |
| 15 | Many systems and many faces may have changed over the last year or two and I do n't imagine you would believe me if I said that none of these changes had saddened me but , in a changing market-place , the basics have n't changed and the most basic precept of all is that there are no healthy banks where there are no health customers to sustain them . |
| 16 | After the door shut behind him , she sat looking at it , wondering what she would have done over the years without him . |
| 17 | Many of the planes would have passed over the hospital and to avoid the risk of an accident , the hospital was asked to cut the number of balloons . |
| 18 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
| 19 | Those seen in the spring will have hibernated over the winter in garden sheds or hollow trees . |
| 20 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 21 | An enormous progress will have occurred over the course of these exercises — a progress which you should be aware of , feel and thoroughly take in . |