Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb mod] have have a " in BNC.

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1 They also fully deserved the three sets they earned in the first three rubbers and with a little bit of luck would have had a least three more .
2 Edward was clearly , and not surprisingly , of considerable interest in Normandy at this date , and William of Jumièges would have had a motive for inventing Robert 's expedition against England , to increase Edward 's debt to the Normans in general and William 's father in particular .
3 All right , the secretary of state may have had a Cabinet committee meeting .
4 Colleges reckon their spell in Division II has cost them about £25,000 in lost sponsorship , bar takings , gate receipts etc — Saturday 's crowd of over 2,500 brought in more than the combined total of the previous home league matches — and there 's little doubt that defeat against Musselburgh would have had a catastrophic impact on the club .
5 Anyone who survived with Lennie must have had a tough time .
6 Everyone with shares should have had a payment notice saying how much they owe .
7 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 .
8 It follows that recent rises in unemployment may have had a relatively greater impact on property-owning white-collar workers than was the case in the early 1980s ; moreover , the latter will also be more highly geared than average .
9 It is a tribute to the awe in which Indirect Rule was held in the 1920s that their pretensions were taken seriously : few deliberative bodies in history can have had a higher regard for themselves as repositories of political wisdom than did the Conference of Residents .
10 I think people who go to prison must have had a reason for whatever they did .
11 This suggests , for example , that a new two-year bond issued at par would have to have a coupon of 10.25 per cent and that for a three-year bond ( with annual coupons ) trading at par the following equality holds ( see ( 5.10 ) ) : demonstrating that the YTM and the coupon are identical when a bond is trading at par .
12 The Times Diary suggested recently that parent company W H Smith 's reluctance to write off shopfitting costs estimated at £500,000 might have had a bearing on the newfound amity between the companies .
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