Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |
| 2 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 3 | Some of them may also have a anti-radiation coating , or an anti-static lead . |
| 4 | Some of them may also have a anti-radiation coating , or an anti-static lead . |
| 5 | Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo . |
| 6 | There are also two paths , d and e , in figure 13.7 which represent the other unspecified causes ; all variables in a model which have causal paths leading to them must also have arrows reminding us of the proportion unpredicted by the model . |
| 7 | As a consequence the dinosaurs that preyed on them must also have grown bigger . |
| 8 | Enough of them might also have left the county to reduce the population to a point which , by the 1520s , created a need for Breton workmen . |
| 9 | One , or both , of them could easily have opted to give Daine a hot lead push and taken the operation over . |
| 10 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 11 | Until the trial , few of them would probably have read The Face . |
| 12 | Indeed , all three of them would probably have willingly paid to have been part of the occasion which is now firmly entrenched in French sporting history . |
| 13 | In this large body , very few would have known the pre-Conquest church ; and most of them would probably have been children of the new gentry in the neighbourhood of Canterbury , perhaps with parents of mixed Anglo-Norman origin . |
| 14 | This leaves the possibility of a splendid house being found in the east courtyard , where the museum and custodian 's house now stand ; but had any substantial remains survived , traces of them would surely have been found when those buildings were erected . |
| 15 | Most of them would also have borrowed in the open market , maybe from a clearing bank where they had a current account and the manager had allowed them to draw over and above what was in it — an overdraft ( the cheapest way of borrowing ? ) — or perhaps a Personal Loan . |
| 16 | I felt sure lots of them would already have young to rear and by transporting the does elsewhere the young were doomed to die wastefully . |
| 17 | The recall instructions were specifically designed to make it difficult for subjects to use previous knowledge in the task and attempts were made to prevent them from mentally retracing the route , a strategy which several of them would otherwise have adopted . |
| 18 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 19 | And as for yourself , you too should try talking to a friend or relative whom you trust — the chances are that they may already have realised that things are going badly . |
| 20 | Due to the conserved structure and the occurrence of identical insertion sites of mitochondrial introns , it has been speculated that they may already have existed in the progenitor of fungal mitochondria ( 7 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ The police are going to find Rick without any help from me — they may already have found him — and they 're going to want to talk to you as well . |
| 22 | They may yet have a marginal impact on the projected two-hour general strike , planned for next Monday , but by then it may already be too late to matter . |
| 23 | They may yet have a marginal impact on the projected two-hour general strike , planned for next Monday , but by then it may already be too late to matter . |
| 24 | They may yet have to write the debt off . |
| 25 | In an essentially two-party system like the British one , for example , the main opposition party contending for office may not wish to fight too hard to curtail the power of an executive they may soon have control of themselves . |
| 26 | Thanks to Saudi Arabia they may soon have a reactor too . |
| 27 | The English fought on foot at Hastings , and although they certainly used horses for transport , they may normally have fought on foot ; Henry I 's knights at Tinchebrai in 1106 also dismounted , owing to the nature of the battlefield . |
| 28 | At the highest level of society there were the names given to the great tenants-in-chief who held their estates directly of the Conqueror , and it must be remembered that if these magnates were already powerful in their own country they may even have brought locative bynames with them , as was the case of William de Moyon already mentioned . |
| 29 | They may even have been able to change their colours as do chameleons , to help them attract mates or regulate their temperature . |
| 30 | Stress affects the circulatory system : heart rate increases , people are aware of their heart pounding ; blood pressure increases ( some people claim it decreases ) ; they suffer from nose bleeds ; they may even have heart attacks , strokes or other serious circulatory problems . |