Example sentences of "may [verb] had [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Early life on Earth may have had many false starts — as many as ten — with each based on a different biochemistry . |
2 | His interest in Edmund Ironside and Edward the Martyr is thus the first of several indications that attitudes to religion in his reign may have had distinct political overtones . |
3 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
4 | They included weapons , jewellery , and objects which may have had some symbolic significance , whether religious or royal . |
5 | She may have had some outdoor work as well , such as feeding poultry . |
6 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |
7 | The Woods ' speech also introduced an important new argument which may have had some considerable effect on Irish voters . |
8 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
9 | Secondly , the activation of the renin-angiotensin system ( the physiological consequence of sodium depletion ) may have had opposite intrarenal effects to those of angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibition , and therefore microalbuminuria was not reduced , even though blood pressure was reduced by hydrochlorothiazide treatment . |
10 | Townsend noted a preconceived association between retirement , ill health and death within the wider community which may have had older cultural roots . |
11 | Although these patients may have had smaller surgical procedures performed , they will require as much , or more , care at home because they are discharged earlier . |