Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Here , with my seal-profile friend Fairfax , in the sight of the Mountain of God , I see that Victoria may have had a point .
2 If state officials perform a particular action , the elite must have had a goal which that action helps .
3 My mum must have had a seizure of something when she had me — ‘ Let's call him Lenworth ! ’
4 The truth is that Chelsea should have had the game sewn up long before Beasant 's blunder .
5 If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use .
6 ‘ The drivers must have had a shock .
7 During the 1590s Evesham must have had a London workshop .
8 Even Phyllis 's racial prejudice might have had a touch of the humorous about it , if it were n't so offensive and pathetic .
9 West Ham 's Trevor Morley could have had a hatful during a one-sided second half but Knight 's brilliance and some missed chances stopped Pompey from being overwhelmed .
10 By the middle of the twelfth century , John 's French readers would have had no difficulty in making the necessary identifications : castellans and viscounts , baillis and prévôts , household officers , the clerks , knights , and chamberlains of princely courts abounded .
11 In cases falling within this protected class , security given by the surety would , in certain circumstances , be unenforceable notwithstanding that the creditor might have had no knowledge of and not have been responsible for the vitiating feature of the transaction .
12 Sealstones and frescoes often depict cult scenes ; stone vessels were often intended for cult use ; the finest faience figurines were idols ; the metal and clay figurines and miniature double-axes were intended as offerings to deities ; the recurring marine motif on the pottery and in frescoes may have had a cult association with the worship of Poseidon .
13 Long Latin words are full of syllables which resemble ‘ bum ’ and ‘ tit ’ and ‘ poo ’ much more , and an idly dreaming miniaturist may have had a thought process set off by half-reading the Latin : if in lege domini ( Psalm 1:2 ) really suggested the funny men made of legs on the opening pages of the Bardolf-Vaux and Ormesby Psalters , then this tells us that the artists , like Professor Camille , spoke English .
14 The ice cream girl must have had a lie in this Sunday morning , and she arrived towards the end of the film showing prior to the interval .
15 The taxi took them off to a small restaurant , and with everywhere seeming crowded to full capacity Fabia guessed , when they were straight away shown to a table , that Ven must have had the forethought to book in advance .
16 The Waldron City Herald night editor must have had a fit trying to decide which one got the three inch banner .
17 This would mean that science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning , but that it could not predict how the universe should begin : For that , one would have to appeal to God .
18 As experimental and theoretical evidence mounted , it became more and more clear that the universe must have had a beginning in time , until in 1970 this was finally proved by Penrose and myself , on the basis of Einstein 's general theory of relativity .
19 Rovers might have had a penalty after 29 minutes when Aldridge was felled by Prior but referee John Lloyd of Wrexham dismissed the appeals .
20 His claim about South African involvement was subsequently ridiculed in the press and elsewhere in a way reminiscent of the scorn poured for so many years on the suggestion that British intelligence might have had a link with the Zinoviev letter .
21 One one boy might have had the belt , say once in the week or a month , at Girran .
22 The work of Lifshitz and Khalatnikov was valuable because it showed that the universe could have had a singularity , a big bang , if the general theory of relativity was correct .
23 Equally , Mrs Smith argued , the common law would have had no difficulty in affording a right of action to parents in a case such as the present one .
24 But these data do not give an accurate account of the overall effect of their change , for an additional 380,000 standard housing benefit recipients would have had an income above their entitlement level .
25 There were small stock-piles of tear gas in the prison to be used in the event of riots or large scale disturbances and Nicholson would have had no compunction about using them .
26 The handicapped child , who would eventually have to move into society , would be ill-equipped to face that society 's tensions and realities whilst the ‘ normal ’ child would have had no experience , during the impressionable and formative years , of relating to the disabled .
27 However , if that election had been fought under some system of proportional representation then the Conservatives would have had a majority over Labour but would have been in a very substantial overall minority since the Liberals and Social Democrats would have held 160 or so seats .
28 Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ .
29 A reshaped back four took time to settle and Swindon could have had the points wrapped up inside half hour .
30 In relation to such a claim the ex turpi causa defence could have had no application .
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