Example sentences of "the [noun] [modal v] have have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If state officials perform a particular action , the elite must have had a goal which that action helps . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If only Kinnock had been able to show us this side of himself when he was still Leader of the Labour Party , the election might have had a very different result . |
| 4 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
| 5 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 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 | ‘ The drivers must have had a shock . |
| 8 | Can you please tell us which members of the club might have had a specific motive for wishing to get rid of Sir Conrad ? ’ |
| 9 | Opponents said the plan would have had a variable impact , because of differences in the charges of landfill operators across the country . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The boy must have had a terrible time at school . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | All the workshops at the conference should have had a ‘ disability aspect ’ , to get away from labelling and slotting disabled people into pigeon holes . |
| 17 | The wing would have had a tendency to turn left in flight unless the change had been made ( incorrectly ) to counteract an inherent right turn . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One of the people with the piano might have had a pencil between their teeth , but would probably have been annoyed if we had taken it to mean the pencil and said : |
| 21 | The eye must have had a designer , just as the telescope had . |
| 22 | The plaintiff must have had a genuine freedom of choice before the defence can be successfully raised against him . |
| 23 | The Marquis may have had a diggicult year but the last few months though have been more difficult for Becky Blandford . |
| 24 | Rather than view the Sancton-Baston pottery as the products of individual potters or workshops ( Myres 1969 ; 1977 ) , the fact that five sets of dies were cut to produce a minimum of nine vessels suggests that the decoration of the pottery may have had a totemic significance to individual families . |
| 25 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |
| 26 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 27 | There was no other way out of the building than through here , though the girls may have had a secret exit of their own , and this antechamber was guarded more fiercely by Nubenehem than ever a desert demon guarded its cave . |
| 28 | From its size , the knife must have had a very specific use and may even have been a surgical instrument . |
| 29 | I estimate that the L.O.R. must have had a stock of at least 1000 tickets to cover all needs . |
| 30 | The Soviet debate of the 1920s was the first in history to face the problems of growth in a conscious manner , and they were not merely theoretical discussions since the results could have had a profound effect upon the actual outcome of events . |