Example sentences of "may have had [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early life on Earth may have had many false starts — as many as ten — with each based on a different biochemistry . |
| 2 | Reza Shah acknowledged eleven children thought he may have had many more . |
| 3 | For one thing , any hopes my father may have had that to meet the General in person would arouse a sense of respect or sympathy to leaven his feelings against him proved without foundation . |
| 4 | Her tradition of looking at landscape was deeply Wordsworthian , whatever intimations she may have had that Wordsworth 's language was for his time and place only . |
| 5 | Watkins L.J. , in Berry ( No. 2 ) may have had such dicta in mind when he stated , |
| 6 | In addition , whether or not one had attended a catholic school may have had little effect on sexual values or mass attendance but it did increase catholic activism and racial tolerance ( Greeley , McCready , and McCourt 1976 ) . |
| 7 | The truth is that the government may have had little choice but to move against the PAC . |
| 8 | However , underwriting in Holland , where NCM enjoy 95 per cent of the market , may be different from the UK , and therefore NCM may have had little experience in working in a competitive market . |
| 9 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 10 | A report on the unsatisfactory nature of the examinations at the Edinburgh School a little later suggests that Coleman may have had much right on his side . |
| 11 | The Woods ' speech also introduced an important new argument which may have had some considerable effect on Irish voters . |
| 12 | From the lists I made , I came to feel that European culture in the last millennium may have had some 100 real heroes , the mastersingers of Europe , of which I have tried to identify half . |
| 13 | She may have had some outdoor work as well , such as feeding poultry . |
| 14 | The human suffering which results from an accident can be severe and can result in some form of life-long disablement or disfigurement for the victim , not forgetting the stress and guilt which is borne by the person who may have had some responsibility for the accident occurring . |
| 15 | They may have had some basis in reality because bones of a large primate 3.5 metres tall and weighing 800 pounds , found in caves in southern China , date back to over 300,000 years ago at the time Homo Erectus was still alive . |
| 16 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 17 | These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use . |
| 18 | Unhappily , habits which may have had some virtue in times of scarcity became vices in times of relative abundance . |
| 19 | Both works were to be translated from Latin into the vernacular languages in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; both were known in military circles ; and both may have had some influence on the formation of changing attitudes to leadership . |
| 20 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |
| 21 | I was hoping you may have had some ideas about that . ’ |
| 22 | Jenner wondered if the unanaesthetised de-clawing may have had some effect on this , and he offered the theory that an alternative source of pain might cause a distraction from the tail-crushing effects of caudate stimulation . |
| 23 | Prior Robert may have had some qualms concerning his own worthiness , though that was a weakness to which he seldom succumbed . |
| 24 | Nowhere so far in my limited knowledge of the pair has evidence of shorthand materialised — ; although at law he may have had some awareness of the skill . |
| 25 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 26 | Essentially viceroy of the newly conquered lands , his position suggests the confidence which Edward placed in him ; and he may have had some influence , as his Savoyard friends and kinsmen certainly did , on the design of the castles by which Wales was to be held down . |
| 27 | They may have had some children . |
| 28 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
| 29 | Alex may have had some response ready , but he got no chance to voice it , as Bobby Anscombe turned his fury on Paul Lexington . |
| 30 | All of a sudden our theories looked as though they may have had some foundation . |