Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] have " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 ) .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 They may yet have to write the debt off .
8 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 .
9 Thanks to Saudi Arabia they may soon have a reactor too .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 They may even have been able to change their colours as do chameleons , to help them attract mates or regulate their temperature .
13 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 .
14 In fact they may even have a date for you here .
15 They may even have intensified as the franchise has been extended and the character of politics changed accordingly .
16 Generally middle-aged , they may even have children who are working for the left-wing opposition , but their own closed environment has protected them from any understanding of the reality of their country .
17 They may even have had servants , and I remember seeing photographs of her in a beautiful gown .
18 They may even have been lovers , though they parted company towards the end . ’
19 That this was so , and that its effect was emphasised by the fact that it was largely in these same regions that opportunities for women and children to earn expanded when elsewhere they may even have declined , explains why home demand at least did not collapse despite increasing dependency ratios , very slowly growing income per capita and a deterioration in real wages on the part of , probably , the majority of the working population .
20 They may even have converted to Christianity .
21 If you look to your left coming into the the junction say I presume , I do n't know whether , they may even have moved now .
22 But since 1988 they may well have taken out ‘ Le Mortgage ’ offered by the French company 's British offshoot , UCB Group , to finance their terrain gastronomique .
23 There is interesting speculation about the Rainbow Inn , for the rainbow was one of the signs of the Dyers ' guild , and they may well have gathered here when work was done .
24 They may well have elderly parents who need to be cared for , whether physically or materially , and they may cause a good deal of pressure .
25 After ten years , they may well have reached the zenith of maturity when they know no non-Christian friends at all !
26 These herbs would have been among those grown for medicinal purposes by the monks in days gone by and they may well have been planted by ponds stocked with carp in the grounds of the monastery .
27 It did not help the Irish , either , that they may well have been winding down after the Five Nations Championship whereas New Zealand 's players were hitting top gear with early-season All Black trials .
28 It was a significant moment , because had the more gifted Muscovites taken control then , they may well have swamped Rangers with their precise , but powerful play .
29 By not putting the matter to the test they may well have spared themselves refusal .
30 Moreover , since immature goats are subordinate to older ones , they may well have to give up any patch of food they find to a larger , more dominant animal .
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