Example sentences of "and [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's talk and let's just have fun . ’ |
| 2 | Its population at this time can hardly have been less than 50,000 and may easily have been well over 60,000 . |
| 3 | Speed of response can be set over a range of five steps , and may well have to be reset because , particularly in graphics mode , if it is too sensitive , loading up several movement commands into the buffer will require having to wait for them to clear . |
| 4 | Among them was Jonathan ( no relation ) Aitken , who is hostile to the European Community and may well have preferred Mrs Thatcher 's approach to Sir Anthony 's Euro-fanaticism . |
| 5 | Marling already occupied Pitts Mill and may well have been in Freames as well . |
| 6 | At club level , his persistent niggling paid off , but at international level , it often acted as a destabilising influence , and may well have led to the premature departure of Willie Ormond as the national team manager . |
| 7 | This has undoubtedly caused temporary local damage and may well have contributed to the general decline of the shrimp fishery . ’ |
| 8 | Some archosaur fossils showed that one species , the longisquamata ( ‘ long-scales ’ ) , possessed heat-insulating scales that possibly also trapped air-pockets and may well have been the forerunners of feathers . |
| 9 | MCC bosses had hoped to deflect the rebels from insisting on the meeting , which will cost £17,000 and may well have to be held at a huge venue like Westminster Hall , by offering to pass on their views on the Gower affair to the selectors and the TCCB in an unprecedented letter of protest . |
| 10 | This no doubt guaranteed their trustworthiness to their new comrades and may well have persuaded them that if communism was for their brothers then it would do for them too . |
| 11 | Elena Ceauşescu was not without her own ambitions and may well have agreed to the ( temporary ) sidelining of Nicu after he made some mild protests about the state of the food supply in Sibiu . |
| 12 | However , some types , the squat jars , bag beakers , pouch bottles and cone beakers ( Evison 1972 ) are rare on the Continent and may well have been made in England ; the Faversham area is a strong contender for the centre of this production . |
| 13 | Furthermore , it could just be that his union might contain diverse political factions within it which , thanks to years of forced and unenforced apartheid , have come to permeate every fabric of society and may well have forced SARU into an on-going powerplay with SARB . |
| 14 | However , it is plain that the speaker of English , although he performs this general task reliably thousands of times a day , has no idea whatever how he does it , and may well have a healthy scepticism about proffered accounts in terms of linguistic or other rules . |
| 15 | Poseidon 's power was at this early time far greater than that of Velchanos : he received large-scale sacrificial offerings at Pylos , and may well have been a major deity on Minoan Crete too . |
| 16 | Now I know it was likely the alcohol was causing his depression and may well have been the major influence on the poor family relationships involved . |
| 17 | It was a premeditated and very nasty murder , and may well have been planned to throw suspicion on Harley or Jefferson . ’ |
| 18 | Now only some fifteen or twenty years later we would know that both partners in a marriage are likely to have important careers , and may well have decided that neither one of the two should be the ‘ lead operation ’ . |
| 19 | He had been a reluctant ally and may well have resented playing second fiddle to his younger brother . |
| 20 | Whereas the idea is theirs and the producer is working in an advisory capacity , he or she almost certainly has greater technical knowledge and experience than the creative team and may well have to point out sequences which wo n't work and suggest modifications or changes . |
| 21 | In order to do this , he or she has to have considerable experience of the advertising business , and may well have spent some time working for a client company . |
| 22 | Children will be pulled in two directions between their natural parents and may well have tense relationships with their step-parents . |
| 23 | Should they change jobs in later life , they will join a different occupational group and may well have to learn new skills and adopt different mannerisms and styles of dress . |
| 24 | Many of the children will have experienced poverty and insecurity , if not actual neglect , and may well have been known to the health or education authorities as children at special risk before they come into the care of the social services department . |
| 25 | He was elected MP for Malmesbury in 1529 , and again in 1547 , and may well have served in intervening Parliaments for which the names of the members for Malmesbury are unknown . |
| 26 | Volcanic effects have been even more sudden and disastrous , ranging from the explosion of the island of Krakatoa , between Java and Sumatra , in 1883 to the even more catastrophic eruption of Santorini ( or Thira ) in the Aegean about 1470 B.C. This eruption , or series of eruptions , which resulted in the huge collapsed caldera in the sea beside the present island , must have been the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by man and may well have been heard as far away as Britain . |
| 27 | Some of the marginal faults-notably that along the Sutherland coast discussed earlier were clearly operative during Mesozoic times ( in this case late Jurassic ) and may well have been active seismic lines . |
| 28 | These arrangements of Bayezid II's seem to be among the earliest occurrences of , and may well have helped to set the pattern for , a number of joint muderrisliks and muftiliks which appear in the course of the sixteenth century , many of which were at a relatively high level in the hierarchy . |
| 29 | They include such things as stock control , critical path analysis , and organiser programs — and may well have a major role to play in mathematics learning in the future . |
| 30 | He had only known Heather for a few weeks , after all , and may well have been deceived by the impression she had created in Rhodes ' alien environment . |