Example sentences of "[vb mod] have have no " in BNC.

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1 There is , needless to say , no suggestion that the Bank of England are in contempt , and , for the same reasons as have led me to conclude that the injunction is overridden , I should have had no hesitation in varying the injunction if it had been necessary to do so .
2 It had n't occurred to him that all those years Alice , who had looked after him so persistently and unobtrusively , should have had no one to look after her .
3 Had he had the same nightmare at any other time , it might have had no particular meaning to him at all .
4 If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation .
5 In cases falling within this protected class , security given by the surety would , in certain circumstances , be unenforceable notwithstanding that the creditor might have had no knowledge of and not have been responsible for the vitiating feature of the transaction .
6 He could have had no idea that Mr Waterhouse was to become one of the greatest civic architects of the north , for in 1856 , when Hinderton Hall was built , he was still at the brink of his career .
7 Last September the Redruth hooker , 28 , could have had no hope of playing at Twickenham as he had smashed an elbow in a minor club match and Dawe , his long-standing rival , had been appointed county captain .
8 When Conan Doyle put these words into the mouth of Sherlock Holmes , he could have had no idea of the tools which would one day become available to the great detective 's fellow scientists in their search for truth .
9 The boy , brought up in poverty and amid the cruelty of London 's East End in the nineties , could have had no greater reward .
10 What developed was a massacre rather than any battle , as disciplined and prepared thousands bore down upon a scattered , unready and largely leaderless crowd , which could have had no idea that any enemy were on this side of the river .
11 But then , he could have had no idea that we were going to have a look at the Delos .
12 Since Mr Johnson died before the museum was built , he could have had no way of knowing the context in which his collection would eventually be shown .
13 … As appears from the decision below , the plaintiff could have had no certainty of ultimate success , and we are of opinion that it was not called upon to take the risk of having its contracts disputed and its business injured and of finding the tax more or less nearly doubled in case it finally had to pay .
14 In relation to such a claim the ex turpi causa defence could have had no application .
15 " I 'm well aware of that , but you 'd have had no choice .
16 Well , in t e old days , two years ago , when she 'd been his Gemma , she 'd have had no choice but to pack her trunks and live under the roof he provided , wherever he chose to provide it .
17 Levi , the expert on metals , would have had no difficulty in telling the difference between gold and tin .
18 For Mrs Thatcher , the timing of President de Klerk 's announcement in the week before the Commonwealth conference is helpful , though she would have had no difficulty in resisting pressure there for further sanctions .
19 Some would have had no sleep .
20 Faith would have had no patience with it .
21 I would have had no value at all .
22 Donaldson would have had no option but to make arrangements for the delegation , even though he may have been well aware of what the reaction would be .
23 In later law , however , a testator would have had no need to concern himself with this , since a rescript of Severus and Caracalla introduced the rule that , failing evidence to the contrary , dispositions charged on the heir were also to be understood to be payable by a substitute .
24 Or , of course , if she is muzzled , she may have been killed by other predators against which she would have had no defence .
25 Using the cleanest virus in the world , least changed by virtue of its isolation in extreme conditions , against which the human cell would have had no natural experience , they had inserted the Mahon virus into the molecular structure of the human gamete .
26 Their medieval neighbours who considered their conduct unneighbourly , unjust and unfair , would have had no hesitation in attempting to tighten their looseness in the interests of the common good .
27 Elizabeth did not get one , and that may have been a tribute to her good taste ; she would have had no room in her house for such an object .
28 She was informed , as was everyone else in the council statement , that Mr Clayton would have had no access to the sort of information quoted in the paper .
29 But then she would have had no time for taking walks .
30 ‘ If I had known the mouthpiece was sterile , I would have had no hesitation in agreeing to the test .
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