Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have had [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle . |
2 | The proximity of the university quarter and the Ecole des Beaux Arts must also have had an effect , especially since the new lot of teachers were often not much older than their daytime pupils . |
3 | The industrial action must also have had an effect , although senior staff suggested that union activity was not particularly strong , and was felt mainly as a restriction on communication . |
4 | If I had , I should also have had the sense to know when I had achieved it , and therefore when to start eating normally again . |
5 | I should never have had the next one but I was in need of something . |
6 | If perhaps the Government were to fund victim support properly , Erm , Mr who was burgled and has never got over it might perhaps have had a visit and some counselling from a victim support worker , and that would be a very good thing . |
7 | Instead , structured gestural sequences , or syntagmata as MacNeill calls them , might already have had a rudimentary grammar before they were overlaid by speech . |
8 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
9 | I had eight realistic birdie chances and might easily have had an eagle out there today . ’ |
10 | Again , the trade guilds probably had enough storage space in their own guild-halls for the coffin and cloaks , they might even have had a private stock of candles . |
11 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
12 | I think that you might call Duff Hart-Davis a travel writer too , at least by osmosis , since his godfather was if I remember rightly Peter Fleming , who might well have had a stern word or two to say about Mrs Izzard 's book . |
13 | Had it been otherwise the battle might well have had a different outcome . |
14 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
15 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
16 | ‘ Had Father brought Winnie back to Winnipeg we might never have had the Pooh stories , ’ says Fred Colebourn , Harry 's son . |
17 | On a turgid turner that had thwarted the seamers ' efforts until the 199th over of the match , Essex required a further 29 to avoid the follow-on on the final morning with four wickets intact , only to be denied by a spell of 3 for 1 in 14 deliveries that ultimately allowed Nick Cook to give the hosts ( and Britannic Assurance Championship leaders ) a right old grilling in the second dig ; but for Ambrose he might never have had the chance . |
18 | I expect when he was a little boy he 'd rather have had a Bible for his birthday than anything else in the world , even a bicycle . |
19 | I 'd rather have had a knife . |
20 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
21 | Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself . |
22 | South America could easily have had a marsupial anteater , alongside its marsupial sabre-tooth " tiger " , but as it happens the anteater trade was early filled by placental mammals instead . |
23 | Their attitude was part of an exaggerated respect for the English class system , and they did not seem to realize that an open-minded person like Horsley could easily have had the same sort of meeting at , for example , a CND conference . |
24 | Then we talked to Miguel again and it turned out the Indian had started this long conversation with him before we could possibly have had the accident . |
25 | Tom Cotter , the little fat station master who had gawked unashamedly at the beautiful girl on his platform , could still have had the same shirt on . |
26 | They could always have had the church watched and perhaps picked up Zoser when he came out . |
27 | She could n't imagine he could ever have had a single moment of nervous insecurity in his whole charmed life . |
28 | It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction . |
29 | Arsenal could also have had a penalty when Campbell went crashing down as Forrest challenged him in the box for a Wright through-pass , but the referee dismissed their claims . |
30 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |