Example sentences of "they [modal v] have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously he was worried lest they may have sustained some damage by coming into contact with my nasty hard ribs . |
| 2 | But his reservations outweigh his praise : ‘ They may have done some good in creating interest in two people who 've made major innovations in twentieth-century music , but they 've also given a negative impression : that the people involved in this music have serious flaws in their personalities . |
| 3 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 4 | They may have seen some dangers in Methodism which were not in fact there . |
| 5 | Anyone who thinks they may have become liable to tax since they registered should tell their bank or building society to cancel the registration as soon as possible . |
| 6 | The ability to learn such social skills may come slowly , but can in most cases be taught so that the child learns to behave in a socially acceptable fashion even though they may have limited academic ability . |
| 7 | They may have received some college training , participated in in-service training provided by government agencies or employers , or received no specific training for their jobs . |
| 8 | They may have exchanged one stressful situation for another . |
| 9 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |
| 10 | That they may have obtained some of their supplies of ivory from that quarter is suggested by finds of this material at the intermediate entrepot of Bahrain . |
| 11 | Even on ‘ Brad ’ — not the most excitable jockey — they may have recorded some memorable figures . |
| 12 | Gerber , South Africa 's record try-scorer with 19 , has touched down four times in as many internationals and his centre partnership with Pieter Muller poses a more difficult challenge to Carling and Jeremy Guscott than they may have envisaged three months ago . |
| 13 | So they may have planted some more damning ‘ evidence ’ somewhere in my flat . |
| 14 | One possible theory about why some people are much more affected than others is that they may have had traumatic experiences of falling as a baby or a young child , and that this has further re-inforced their instinctive behaviour . |
| 15 | Their spouses may not have been able to save much during their lives ; they may have had low-paid jobs . |
| 16 | by no means all the composers were Protestants ; Senfl , Arnold von Bruck , Mahu , and Hellinck were not , although they may have had secret leanings to Protestantism ; but Rhaw also published Latin church music , while Catholics all over Europe enjoyed vernacular Calvinist psalms . |
| 17 | They may have had some basis in reality because bones of a large primate 3.5 metres tall and weighing 800 pounds , found in caves in southern China , date back to over 300,000 years ago at the time Homo Erectus was still alive . |
| 18 | These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use . |
| 19 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |
| 20 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 21 | They may have had some children . |
| 22 | All of a sudden our theories looked as though they may have had some foundation . |
| 23 | They may have proved naive on the field of play but , says JOHN ROBBIE , the two emphatic defeats did the Springboks less harm than the myopic selection of the old guard to manage the coming tour to Europe . |
| 24 | Users in this group were not known to be taking any drug other than cannabis ( though , like any drug user , they may have taken other drugs without official knowledge of this ) . |
| 25 | Treasury should be followed , but they may have taken that view precisely because , so far as B was concerned , it was a case of questions being put to a person who had been charged . |
| 26 | However much they may have disliked such labels they were unavoidable as the dramatic jump in their lifestyle was to have an equally powerful , and highly visible , effect on the company . |
| 27 | The presence of the therapist can encourage partners to express their anxieties , needs , and wishes to each other , whereas previously they may have found this extremely difficult or even impossible . |
| 28 | For example , people may be understandably reluctant to commit their personal financial details to paper , or discuss the real reasons why they may have left one of their previous jobs . |
| 29 | They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience . |
| 30 | During or after such courses they may have acquired some additional external diplomas in organ-playing conducting , harmony and counterpoint . |