Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such patterns may have become a conventional part of the mosaicist 's repertory , indeed , the similarity of these mosaics to some in north-eastern England ( part IV ) suggests a widespread acceptance of these forms of decoration . |
| 2 | With the higher populations of Amerindians in the past , such groups must have had a major effect on the structure of the forest . |
| 3 | Dinosaurs may have had a four-chambered heart ; if so they were probably warm-blooded . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Even the landscapes , birds and animals may have had a religious significance ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 6 | His last words would have made a fine song title . |
| 7 | The latter half of the sixteenth century does , arguably , represent a significant turning point in the development of the hierarchy : until that time one can argue that its evolution had been largely functional , that the nature of the hierarchy ensured that those who reached the highest learned offices would have received a thorough grounding in the necessary sciences through both their education and their teaching , and practical training in the application of the law through holding several important kadiliks ; but that after that time , that is , from toward the end of the sixteenth century , the elaboration of the hierarchy was much more negative from the point of view both of learning and of good administration , being essentially an attempt to provide jobs and honours for an ever-increasing number of those seeking both . |
| 8 | And no doubt other authors would have chosen a different balance of topics — more invertebrates and light vertebrates perhaps . |
| 9 | Some referees would have produced a red card instantly , but Alan Flood decided that the challenge only merited a yellow . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Instead of a free subscription to an obscure journal ( which came with the registration fee ) many listeners would have preferred a decent abstract list — not to mention fewer unimaginative and time-worn presentations . |
| 12 | Clearly , a salesperson selling in a combination of these settings will have to adopt a different approach for each . |
| 13 | That some very large companies should have lost a great deal of money on their little experiment shows only how unwise their decision to pursue the technology was . |
| 14 | The miners might have lost a political battle , but they had not lost a war . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | A joining of the two companies would have created a huge holiday company with about 30pc of the UK market . |
| 17 | This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire . |
| 18 | The bride was an attractive and lively young woman who under normal circumstances would have made a sympathetic wife for an energetic and ambitious young man . |
| 19 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 20 | And in 500 years , when the distinction between twentieth-century decades will have become a mere specialist detail ( as is the distinction , for most of us , between the 1840s and the 1850s ) ? |
| 21 | The resultant high temperatures and high humidities could have had a disastrous effect on both land and marine faunas . |
| 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 | On the night of Good Friday , the apostles must have felt a painful sense of loss . |
| 24 | I entertained the hope that while one or two lazy habits may have crept in , the passage of years will have added a certain maturity to my conduct behind the wheel . |
| 25 | The general growth of awareness of environmental problems may have provided a problem-centred focus which helps to overcome any sense of theoretical looseness . |
| 26 | But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Aeons ago , the waters must have taken a different path and the men who discovered the cave had chipped away the stalagmites to make a passage into the gallery beyond , the gallery where Melissa and Fernand now stood . |
| 29 | They are the people who can refer clients on to solicitors and it is highly likely that the ‘ Advisory Liaison Service ’ and the proposed liaison officers could have played a significant part in making and fostering those contacts . |
| 30 | And yet , I 'm quite sure that as they got nearer and nearer to Bethlehem their feelings would have changed a little bit . |