Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] have [vb pp] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incorporation of a modified template may have detected this . |
| 2 | The agent might , for example , be at fault if in the circumstances the consent could be taken as sufficient evidence that the agent has power to consent ( i.e. , that there were reasons for holding the consent valid ) and the agent should have realized this . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is not remarkable , after all , that no poet should have described this world to us before it expired , described it in language that would bring home to us what kind of world it actually was and how its inhabitants looked upon it , for it was above all a peasant world and the peasant was inarticulate . |
| 4 | Gurder would have understood this sort of thing . |
| 5 | Thorough market research would have uncovered this . |
| 6 | Skin abscesses due to injecting were reported more often by drug users who seroconverted than by controls but the selection of seroconverters who had probably used infected injecting equipment may have biased this result . |
| 7 | Government policy in the late 1960s and early 1970s in diverting labour and other resources into the public sector may have exacerbated this , but it did not create it . |
| 8 | Observation in other schools suggests that the DCSL would normally be more active earlier in the project and indeed would provide some inservice sessions for staff in the school , although her confidence in the training and expertise of the teacher-librarian may have made this inappropriate here . |
| 9 | Your son-in-law and his boss may have taken this precaution , but can his wife believe his word ? |
| 10 | Crocombe should have taken this as a bad omen , but did not , carrying on to Karachi . |
| 11 | If it was not , then the Committee should have made this plain and opted for a different verbal formula . |
| 12 | No one asked the matron if she thought the boy might have done this to silence Charley rather than avenge his mother . |
| 13 | A drunken man in a squabble could have done this . ’ |
| 14 | Applying the but for test would have produced this result . |
| 15 | The princess will have read this advice in the chapter The Secret , Power And Effects Of Love to help her deal with her failed marriage . |
| 16 | I was looking for a 4 × 4 vehicle and either building could have housed this year 's import quota . |
| 17 | Even though the vendor may have taken this basic protection , the vendor should be aware of the decision of the Chancery Division in Goff v Gauthier 62 P & CR [ 1991 ] 388 . |
| 18 | In the next example , the teacher could have developed this child 's thinking by suggesting that they should find out if the boat would still float when carrying a smaller stone or if a larger boat could carry the stone they had . |
| 19 | The construction of the Stroudwater Canal would have stopped this practice ( which cost them nothing ! ) and forced them to pay tolls on any goods transported . |
| 20 | The crew may have resented this . |
| 21 | ‘ I an sorry that a well-respected body such as the Wolfson Foundation should have taken this step ’ says Major General Leslie Busk , director-general of the British Heart Foundation and chairman of the Association of Medical Research Charities . |
| 22 | Callimachus must have followed this up with his epic poem Galatea , which ( as Rudolf Pfeiffer suggested ) presented the Nereid Galatea as the mother of Galatos , the ancestor of the Galatians ( fr. 378–9 Pfeiffer ) . |
| 23 | Bede 's statement that Chad was sent by Oswiu to the archbishop of Canterbury to be consecrated , only to find that Deusdedit had died ( HE 111 , 28 ) , is unlikely to be correct because Wilfrid had known that Deusdedit was dead when he was earlier seeking consecration as Ealhfrith 's bishop and the probability must be that Oswiu 's court would have known this too . |
| 24 | Keeping her head and shoulders back would have improved this rider 's stickability ! |
| 25 | What sort of character would have sustained this setting for six years , Theodora wondered , as she parked the car in the hedgerow and lifted the wicket gate six inches in order to swing it open . |
| 26 | Television may have encouraged this process but there are other good reasons for it . |
| 27 | Heathcliff must have discovered this from the servants . |
| 28 | The one reservation about the recording is that he was not advised to lean or step back a fraction on climactic high notes , which in consequence are disproportionately emphatic ( e.g. in Minnelied im Mai or the rapturous Frühlingslied ) and almost in danger of blasting : the recording supervisor should have watched this more carefully . |
| 29 | Naturally , my father would have felt this loss keenly ; but to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations — that is , the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country — was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre . |
| 30 | Anyone who has tuned into motor racing on the television will have heard this effect . |