Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Existing operations may have outgrown space available in the old location and it may be impossible , owing to planning restrictions or the space actually available , to expand . |
| 2 | Our wintering birds may have travelled south from British breeding grounds , or arrived , cross-Channel , from the Continent . |
| 3 | The Secklow hundred mound in Milton Keynes is the only hundred meeting place which has been excavated , and no study has been carried out which might indicate that in addition to the courts other activities may have taken place , like markets and fairs , the collection of customs and dues , or religious ceremonies . |
| 4 | So many meetings and partings must have taken place beneath his roof , so many dark plots hatched between his hospitable walls . |
| 5 | This is a delicate negotiation and if at a later stage the prospective purchaser who made the highest offer withdraws , the other parties may have lost interest or not wish to participate . |
| 6 | Readers may have received mail shots with the Barclaycard logo suggesting that they stand a good chance of winning a six figure sum of money and a car in a prize draw . |
| 7 | Increased exports of banknotes should have helped printer De La Rue boost halfway figures , up by a third to £41m . |
| 8 | All DMS candidates must have had work experience of a kind which will enable them to benefit from and contribute to the course . |
| 9 | Nor is it possible to imagine the Regent allowing such a hideous series of plates to be made to commemorate his coronation , though , to be fair , even Regency designers might have had trouble making an elegant plate incorporating a photographic portrait of the old reprobate . |
| 10 | Mr Nelson responded to interventions by MPs on both sides who claimed that if the Bank of England had acted sooner fewer depositors would have lost cash . |
| 11 | In the context of the present study , analysis of citing authors would have provided evidence for the existence , size , and institutional affiliations , of social groups of scientists . |
| 12 | An additional 1,000 self-builders would have reclaimed VAT through their business accounts . |
| 13 | His voice was low and controlled , but his hands were clenched at his sides and his glittering eyes would have frozen hell-fire . |
| 14 | Thus the view that stainless steel knives would have replaced carbon steel ones even if individual industrialists had acted differently is justified by appealing to the competition inherent in capitalist production . |
| 15 | These and other strange animals would have given Olduvai a unique ambience , but the basic framework of the present-day savannah environment had already been established . |
| 16 | The report , to be debated by the Kirk 's general assembly in May , says Government economic policies might have reduced inflation , but at a human cost ‘ unacceptable ’ in a civilised society . |
| 17 | Because had we had them any other way , you may have fallen into the dilemma as you 've suggested , that the shop stewards may have become part of the management . |
| 18 | You may have used your pitch range ( which was introduced in 15.3 ) in different ways : your pitch movements may have taken place within quite a narrow range ( narrow pitch range ) or using the full range between high and low ( wide pitch range ) ; if you did not use wide pitch range , you may have used different keys : high key ( using the upper part of your pitch range ) , mid key ( using the middle part of the range ) or low key ( the lower part ) . |
| 19 | 160 , and to us in this court , he imagined that the judges must have assumed jurisdiction by virtue of their inherent power to determine who may and who may not plead at the Bar before them . |
| 20 | Very young children present a problem in that there may be a question as to whether their parents should have exercised supervision over them . |
| 21 | But the plaintiffs , local authorities and anti-nuclear associations must have abandoned hope of success long ago . |
| 22 | To be heading down towards the Equator , towards tiny islands in the sun where pirates and privateers must have taken refuge to lie in wait for those gold-laden Spanish galleons , where a rich mixture of French , Dutch , Spanish and English had left an intriguing treasure-chest of cultures to be explored … |
| 23 | From the start , they had worked together like brothers , with respect and affection , and Coleman 's grief was in no way lightened by a suspicion that the killers might have fingered Asmar through him . |
| 24 | The defendants could have found product liability insurance easily , ( see also on this point Flamar Interocean Ltd v Denmac [ 1990 ] 1 Lloyds Rep 434. ) and the term was universal in the trade ( but had never been negotiated by any trade association ) so that the plaintiff had no opportunity of obtaining product on other terms . |
| 25 | To think that the selfsame parents could have given birth to the two of us , she says . |
| 26 | In most cases the development of these functions would have gone hand in hand with the growth of the settlement and would have been directly related to the increasing dependence of the surrounding hinterland on the goods and services which it could provide . |
| 27 | Good example in ninety two if Harlow council had been a whole er whole council election in nineteen ninety two it 's highly likely the Conservatives would have taken control . |
| 28 | And I suppose er l some of the lasses would have gotten work as |
| 29 | However , in the absence of such a disclaimer the circumstances would have given rise to a duty of care . |
| 30 | Party candidates privately admit that regular meetings could have jeopardised Labour 's chances . |