Example sentences of "may have had [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One possible theory about why some people are much more affected than others is that they may have had traumatic experiences of falling as a baby or a young child , and that this has further re-inforced their instinctive behaviour . |
| 2 | Some teachers may specialize in certain sports , while others may have had experience of a particular instrument , such as the flute or violin , and therefore may have had similar problems as yourself . |
| 3 | It will be argued that such factors may have had considerable influence on what are widely believed to have been exclusively ‘ political ’ decisions . |
| 4 | Jean-Claude may have had artistic integrity on his side but he did not have a legal leg to stand on . |
| 5 | by no means all the composers were Protestants ; Senfl , Arnold von Bruck , Mahu , and Hellinck were not , although they may have had secret leanings to Protestantism ; but Rhaw also published Latin church music , while Catholics all over Europe enjoyed vernacular Calvinist psalms . |
| 6 | Other parents , however , may want their child to attend a special school and may have had positive information about children with visual handicap who have been happy and successful in these schools . |
| 7 | Chemical apparatus tends to be broken , or reused in new arrangements ; but the historian may hope that even here laboratories may have had capacious cupboards into which unused pieces have been stuffed and thus preserved . |
| 8 | The project starts from the basic hypothesis that modernisation of agricultural and industrial regions was extremely uneven during the period of time here considered , and that this uneven development may have had important consequences for the development of the internal market for both agricultural and industrial products , even to some degree determining the structure and efficiency of production . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure . |