Example sentences of "may [adv] have had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , other market members ( and their customers ) may not have had a proper opportunity to participate in the trade . |
| 2 | Thus , prices on Simex may not have had a measurable effect on the index . |
| 3 | She may or may not have had a longstanding paranoid personality ; that 's hard for relatives to cope with , but not necessarily pathological . ’ |
| 4 | There is no reason to think that people in the past may not have had a profound understanding of God , an understanding which will illuminate one 's own . |
| 5 | The increase in this woodland may well have had a beneficial effect on the Woodcock and has provided the increasing breeding Redpoll population with an abundance of habitat . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , he may well have had a guilty conscience : he certainly tried to use his influence to poison Mozart 's career , out of sheer jealousy at the younger man 's superior talents ; but he does not seem to have been directly involved in his death . |
| 7 | The flock are unlikely to have been as completely innocent as the latter suggests , and their guilt may well have had a secular aspect , for it might be doubted whether Cnut would have become involved with spiritual shortcomings . |
| 8 | Like Julian , perhaps , Teresa also had an illness that may well have had a psychological aspect and which brought her to the brink of death ; her autobiography and spiritual writings show how she brought herself a physical and spiritual healing . |