Example sentences of "she [modal v] not have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may not have any speech , but she has no problems in making her feelings clear : she wails at the memory . |
| 2 | If he had told Mrs Wilson this and even if she had believed him , she may not have wished to help him . |
| 3 | At the moment it is theoretically possible for a qualified nurse with 20 years ' break in service to be put in charge of an acute ward , and to take responsibility for the management and allocation of staff , even though she may not have any recent or relevant experience . |
| 4 | But does it matter as when you think that she may not have made a will , because then everything will go to her er next of kin as one says , intestacy rules . |
| 5 | She may not have had any opportunity to understand their capacity to nourish her emotional life . |
| 6 | But although she may not have been popular at work she was not evil . |
| 7 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 8 | Disadvantages : She may not have had much experience looking after young children ; she may let you down at the last minute if something else crops up — like a boyfriend . |
| 9 | Treitel ( 8th ed. ) , p. 87 says of Ward v. Byham : ‘ One basis of the decision is that the mother had provided consideration by showing that she had made the child happy , etc. : in this way she can be said to have conferred a factual benefit on the father , even though she may not have suffered any detriment . ’ |
| 10 | She may not have had time . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ In addition to the agreed sum of her own portion , all my jewellery , all the silver and plate , and any items of furnishing she wishes to remove from Merchiston Lodge , which property itself she may not have . ’ |
| 12 | She may not have consciously intended all of it , but huge fraud it was , because she purported to give a picture which in , in her own words was , er forever true , that 's a direct quote , er forever true , of Samoa , which we know , er , was not at all true . |
| 13 | Yeah , she may not have sent it through |
| 14 | Four months later her killer is still at large and detectives are looking at the possibility that she may not have been his first victim |
| 15 | If the salesperson is unsuccessful at this stage , then he or she may not have the opportunity of selling to the firm again until the next model change ( and even then it is difficult trying to dislodge established suppliers ) . |
| 16 | But she must not have a wooden leg or a cast in her eye , since these are things most of us hope to escape . |
| 17 | She should not have gone to that party . |
| 18 | It was Grizel Huntley 's own view that her brother had not been fooled at all but had been charmed and diverted by a dashing girl thirty years his junior , and had seen no reason at all why she should not have a share of his considerable estate when that left a very decent down-setting for his niece as well . |
| 19 | She should not have done so . |
| 20 | She should still have been able to get a seat , but she should not have a carriage practically to herself . |
| 21 | Carrie had to say a tearful farewell to 41-year-old Rourke , who she married in the summer , when doctors ruled she should not have any visitors for 28 days . |
| 22 | Carre had to say a tearful farewell to 41-year-old Rourke , who she married in the summer , when doctors ruled she should not have any visitors for 28 days . |
| 23 | Unrepentant Lloyds said last night the error was all Helena 's — she should not have gone overdrawn in the first place . |
| 24 | She should not have married Sebastian . |
| 25 | Perhaps she should not have been so aggressive . |
| 26 | She said nothing she should not have done under interrogation . |
| 27 | The bird brought her food , dropping it into her mouth so that she should not have to stop for the nourishment she needed in order to have enough strength to carry on . |
| 28 | He was quite outrageous and she knew she should not have so much as smiled , but she found herself laughing with him . |
| 29 | ‘ Make of it what you want , Clerk , she should not have been sent to Godstowe ! ’ |
| 30 | That John should have kissed her like that — in the way she had quite often seen boys kiss girls on their way home- and that she should not have minded , apart from the slight awkwardness of the people surging around them , would have seemed incredible to her a few months ago . |