Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [vb mod] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have taken something of a miracle to attract the capital investment which might have begun to change this state of affairs . |
| 2 | ‘ He was going to introduce changes to the club which would have made your lives much less comfortable . ’ |
| 3 | The silence was underlined by the drumming of grasshoppers and she noticed that there was no other car which might have brought S. Kettering . |
| 4 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 5 | Within the increased roads programme that I announced today — a road programme which will have increased by 50 per cent . |
| 6 | He would have relished the confusion which must have arisen . |
| 7 | The opposition groups , ranging from social democrats and liberals to Christians , nationalists and anarchists , had been given permission by the Moscow city council and the USSR Council of Ministers to march after the official parade organized by the trade unions , apparently to pre-empt the holding of a larger unofficial demonstration which might have clashed with the official parade . |
| 8 | Burun 's chief wife was small and slim , handsome in the way that unremarkable women sometimes are when they have matured past the need for beauty , and the red-gold of her hair was as yet unmarred by the silver which would have betrayed her age . |
| 9 | This was achieved by a religious ritual which may have stemmed from one in which the original parricides mutilated themselves ( and especially the organ which was responsible for their incestuous desires ) out of remorse and guilt at what they had done and in mourning for the primal father . |
| 10 | Your agent on Belial also murdered Federique Moshe-Rabaan in an attempt to divert Adjudicator Bishop 's suspicions : an attempt which would have succeeded had it not been for my , ’ and he preened himself , ‘ abilities at detection . |
| 11 | I presume that Eliot , perhaps overestimating my powers , had thought that I could somehow write a piece which would have avoided causing offence . |
| 12 | Left to themselves , folk musicians did what they could without the guidance which might have come from experienced musicians . |
| 13 | It is a schism which may have contributed to the stalled development of GaAs as an alternative in digital technology . |
| 14 | He leapt forward and slashed at Yuan 's neck , a circular cut which would have beheaded the Manchu if it had connected . |
| 15 | The alternative was either not to commence running the business or to cease running the business shortly after completion which would have meant in either case that the landlord would foreclose on the lease and the plaintiff 's investment in the business would have been entirely lost . |
| 16 | The growth of tree roots and their penetration and enlargement of incipient rock fractures can contribute significantly to the break-up of rock which may have experienced relatively little weakening through chemical alteration . |
| 17 | Miss Logan halted , initially in surprise , for it appeared that Miss Fergusson had lost her footing on a little stretch of solid rock which should have afforded no peril . |
| 18 | 8.2 To take Lease following disclaimer If at any time during the Term the Tenant ( being an individual ) shall become bankrupt or ( being a company ) shall enter into liquidation and the trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator shall disclaim this Lease the Guarantor shall if the Landlord shall by notice within [ 60 ] days after such disclaimer so require take from the Landlord a Lease of the Premises for the residue of the Contractual Term which would have remained had there been no disclaimer at the Rent then being paid under this Lease and subject to the same covenants and terms as in this Lease ( except that the Guarantor shall not be required to procure that any other person is made a party to the Lease as guarantor ) such new Lease to take effect from the date of such disclaimer and in such case the Guarantor shall pay the costs of such new Lease and execute and deliver to the Landlord a counterpart of it This provision is inserted to avoid the fact that a disclaimer of a lease by a trustee in bankruptcy or a liquidator will give rise to the release of the guarantor from the date of the disclaimer . |
| 19 | There was a small top storey , a room on the flat roof which may have functioned as a sleeping place on hot summer nights : there were similar roof chambers on Egyptian houses too . |
| 20 | Once again Bush endorsed a Republican alternative which would have limited extra coverage to a maximum of 20 weeks , and which included an assortment of tax incentives for businesses and individuals . |
| 21 | Hope looked keenly at the man , held his gaze a moment — a glance which could have ruled a line straight from eye to eye — and then snapped to attention . |
| 22 | Contemporary estimates for the period 1692 – 98 put the number of placemen at between 97 and 136 ( to which would have to be added receivers of unreported Crown pensions or bribes ) , a figure which may have risen to 200 by 1714 . |
| 23 | It was believed that Japan had sought joint action which would have included purchases of yen for deutschmarks by the West German Bundesbank . |
| 24 | Just a fortnight ago , 23-year-old Jemson was on the verge of re-joining Forest in a £1million-plus swap deal which would have taken Kingsley Black to Hillsborough . |
| 25 | THE Liberal Democrats were prepared to do a deal which could have rescued the Government from its humiliating defeat in last week 's Maastricht rebellion . |
| 26 | Thus in ( 140 ) below the lighting of a fire is presented as a condition which would have permitted Pops to be found sooner , but the fire could not be conceived as acting on Pops directly itself and " making him be found " : ( 140 ) A fire would n't have mattered except that it would cause Pops to be found sooner . |
| 27 | Staff at Levendale Under Fives Group , Yarm , became entangled in a row over a separate water supply to their new building which would have meant finding extra cash over and above the £25,000 raised by parents for the new building . |
| 28 | This is necessary as a result of property writedown which would have left it in breach of its £350 million net worth banking covenant . |
| 29 | His trousers and shirt ( an old-fashioned shirt of striped flannel which should have had a collar but did not ) were motleyed with all sorts of paint and a welter of dirt and sweat . |
| 30 | However , his relations with his tenants were never happy , because while Lowther believed his town and harbour should be developed largely at the expense of the inhabitants , with modest financial encouragement from himself , he could never bring himself to make those concessions of self-government which might have persuaded his tenants to co-operate . |