Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was not surprising that Col. Savill should have had an attentive and appreciative audience on 1 December 1989 , when he spoke on this subject . |
| 2 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 3 | With the higher populations of Amerindians in the past , such groups must have had a major effect on the structure of the forest . |
| 4 | Anyone who survived with Lennie must have had a tough time . |
| 5 | Dinosaurs may have had a four-chambered heart ; if so they were probably warm-blooded . |
| 6 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 7 | Even the landscapes , birds and animals may have had a religious significance ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | football may have had a rough old week … but we 've got some celebrating to do now … |
| 9 | At the Old Bailey , the defence argued that after such painstaking tests of public taste , their clients must have had an honest mind in relation to its subsequent exhibition . |
| 10 | Can you please tell us which members of the club might have had a specific motive for wishing to get rid of Sir Conrad ? ’ |
| 11 | A significant number of subjects ( 7/37 ) , however , had food reflux that was outside one standard deviation from the mean , whereas only one of these subjects would have had a positive reflux score by measuring acid alone . |
| 12 | Bouvard et Pécuchet would have been finished ; Madame Bovary might have been suppressed ( how seriously do we take Gustave 's petulance against the overbearing fame of the book ? a little seriously ) ; and L'Education sentimentale might have had a different ending . |
| 13 | Vessels may have been used for eating , drinking , containing and carrying liquids , but each type may have had a specific function such as the use of open bowls as lamps . |
| 14 | Therefore , Leapor may have had a considerable influence on the choice of poems to be printed . |
| 15 | However , it did not resolve the crucial question : Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang , a beginning of time ? |
| 16 | The boy must have had a terrible time at school . |
| 17 | This says that ‘ greater freedom of communication by those professional advisers to the regulators might have had a significant effect on subsequent action , and hence on the later course of events ’ . |
| 18 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 19 | Opponents said the plan would have had a variable impact , because of differences in the charges of landfill operators across the country . |
| 20 | The resultant high temperatures and high humidities could have had a disastrous effect on both land and marine faunas . |
| 21 | ‘ Only a handful may have had a minor invasive procedure , ’ said Dr Peter Povey , Bolton 's director of public health , adding the risk to patients was negligible . |
| 22 | The number of sympathisers able to support IRA operations on the Continent is smaller than in Northern Ireland , so the recruitment of a few informers may have had a disproportionate effect . |
| 23 | The site is only four miles from Corinium and this has led to the speculation that the establishment may have had a special function in a large estate . |
| 24 | The plaintiff must have had a genuine freedom of choice before the defence can be successfully raised against him . |
| 25 | The removal of a large section of the landed and business sections of the community would have had a devastating effect on the province as a whole , and especially its economy . |
| 26 | That teacher would have had a different attitude if Nader had been around . |
| 27 | Had her ordeal come a century or two later than it did , the unsinkable Sancie would have had an uplifting view during her brief immersion , for the church and the tower of Sauveterre look especially well from down below here by the river . |
| 28 | DUNDEE 'S Canadian chairman Ron Dixon will have had an uncomfortable time since Saturday despite the distance between his home in Vancouver and his football headquarters at Dens Park . |
| 29 | But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history . |
| 30 | This week 's extension of the suspension has lead to a further letter to unit trust holders.But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history . |