Example sentences of "that [modal v] have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , far from wanting punishment for young people , between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of Scots supported measures such as ‘ counselling to help offenders with personal problems that may have led them to offend ’ , community service orders and welfare support ‘ as an alternative to sending offenders to court ’ . |
| 2 | Feelings that may have poisoned one 's perceptions and coloured one 's actions since childhood may be found inappropriate to be carried around continually in adult life . |
| 3 | I think where the dilemma emerges is in finding equity for an entity that may have had its balance sheet shot to hell in the recession but may now have a strong future to go forward on . |
| 4 | The plain sheets that should have served it were also there , but torn into strips and padding and squares , and laid on a tray on the ground . |
| 5 | " We 're not , " he said in a rigid voice that should have warned me . |
| 6 | Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn . |
| 7 | Although he always sent her out with new clothes that should have made her embody his idea of elegance , he was resigned to the fact that she would return in a version far removed from his original concept . |
| 8 | Who was he , this man who knew her name , who got up from a collision that should have killed him outright , and still managed to outrun a healthy man ? |
| 9 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 10 | It was the Edinburgh man 's only success from four attempts , and with Nick White failing with four attempts earlier in the game , the Scots squandered opportunities that should have won them the game comfortably . |
| 11 | The shot that should have finished him never came . |
| 12 | A rare , special smell that should have had her licking her lips and counting the hours until lunch . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm — ’ Her voice was quite flat , with no sign of the bitterness that had edged it earlier , or the mad rage that must have possessed her when she had destroyed Jessamy 's clothes . |
| 14 | She clashed her talons on the bars , brought her beak down on them as well in a way that must have pained her , and swung sideways towards Creggan . |
| 15 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 16 | Despite the humour , which was lapped up by an appreciative crowd , it was a sad spectacle and one that must have left her regretting her comments , when asked about her chances at Wimbledon . |
| 17 | With a shoe clutched in each hand he was unable to make a grab for the rougher stones that might have saved him from disaster . |
| 18 | Any awkward silence that might have followed their last exchange was overtaken by the business-like rattle of cups and saucers as Elsie placed the tea things on the table nearest to Mrs Wilson . |
| 19 | It was a time for thanking God that Matthew had turned his back on the badness that might have dragged him down . |
| 20 | There was nothing in the room that might have frightened her ? |
| 21 | Autopsies on the crew showed no trace of a medical condition that might have affected their performance , nor trace of alcohol or drugs . |
| 22 | They were both straining to reach , leaning forward as far as they could , agonisingly aware that the door and its ring handle that might have given them some leverage were out of their reach , when another sound fell on their ears . |
| 23 | Lazy by day , at night it was transformed into a sleek hunting machine , exhibiting a savagery that might have shocked its innocent owners . |
| 24 | Lacking a goal that might have altered its chemistry , it remained a matter of dull physics . |
| 25 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 26 | And he simply could not think of anything that might have made him become a Muslim . |
| 27 | Bird lime and other dirt obliterated the dusky light that might have made its way through this inadequate fanlight . |
| 28 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 29 | The mother first went to the school which was by now shut , but she found the caretaker who said there had been no event that might have kept anyone late at school that day . |
| 30 | It was Arthur Holmes who first suggested that mantle convection currents might be responsible for continental movements , but he lacked any direct geophysical data that might have supported his views . |