Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is possible the killer may have had local knowledge , ’ said Det Supt Cole . |
| 2 | It is also possible that the animals may have had other significance . |
| 3 | For all I know , Léon Cohn-Casson might have had substantial reasons for believing in his invulnerability . |
| 4 | Its collapse could have had serious roll-on effects on the finances of these airports , and the relevant local authorities stepped in . |
| 5 | Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting . |
| 6 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 7 | Perhaps other readers will have had similar experiences ? |
| 8 | We 've tinkered with the list a bit , and lots of people with dicky UK addresses will have had inscrutable messages saying you 've been subbed onto the list again . |
| 9 | It was incredible , he continued , that a king who had established the Presbyterian religion in Scotland and was willing to establish the Catholic religion in Ireland should have had insurmountable scruples about the ecclesiastical constitution of England . |
| 10 | At the time she had had Peter in her tummy and a fall could have had serious consequences for both herself and the unborn baby . |
| 11 | For the first time she found herself wondering whether he had resented not only Hugo but all the family , and whether that subsequent betrayal could have had long roots in the soil of an old envy . |
| 12 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 13 | However , it does mean that reformers will have to have consistent answers to the arguments about instability , weak government and power to small or extremist parties . |
| 14 | If ‘ mentioned-in-the-text ’ is taken as the basis for selection of discourse subjects , it should be noted that the analyst is , in fact , attempting to reconstitute the presupposition pool which the participants must have had prior to the discourse fragment being analysed . |
| 15 | Responses to a questionnaire sent to NHS authorities in March 1988 had shown that only 8 per cent of employers requires nurses and health visitors to undertake re-entry programmes before employment , even though individuals might have had substantial breaks in service . |
| 16 | Equally problematic is the validity of Sidonius 's very cultured presentation of the barbarian courts of Theodoric II , Euric and Chilperic I. Here , the author might have had political reasons to present the barbarians in as positive a light as possible . |
| 17 | The most important buildings would have had red hand-made tiles on the roof and for this reason , the region became known as Rottwil ( red villa ) . |
| 18 | A ‘ revolutionary committee ’ of barons seemed about to take control of the central government : the forest would have had short shrift from them . |
| 19 | The project starts from the basic hypothesis that modernisation of agricultural and industrial regions was extremely uneven during the period of time here considered , and that this uneven development may have had important consequences for the development of the internal market for both agricultural and industrial products , even to some degree determining the structure and efficiency of production . |
| 20 | Furthermore , he was informed that the water may have had medicinal properties . |
| 21 | The western rising was prompted largely by religious conservatism , although an attempt to limit the number of servants a gentleman might have had social overtones ( 73 , p.61 , 69 , 136 , 142–4 ) . |
| 22 | Police say the vandals ' actions could have had horrific results and they want the culprits caught before they strike again . |
| 23 | Had the war ended with the collapse of Madrid in November 1936 , the Nationalists would have had considerable difficulty in improvising the governmental and administrative apparatus necessary to sustain a new regime . |
| 24 | The agencies will have to have available for public scrutiny a register giving details of consents granted and results of effluent samples . |
| 25 | H pylori is associated with gastritis and peptic ulcer and possibly with non-ulcer dyspepsia , so both patients may have had chronic infection . |
| 26 | In view of Vane 's other commitments , Hutchinson must have had practical charge of parliamentarian naval finance , although it would seem that he was only paid a salary out of the treasurer 's profits . |
| 27 | Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same , notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped , unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board : Provided , that the master or other person … may exonerate himself … by showing that it was caused without any default on his part , and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or the holder , or some person under whom the holder claims . |
| 28 | Such a decision would have had considerable economic and political consequences as the plant employed 6,000 workers in a state where unemployment was already high , at 6.3 per cent . |
| 29 | Not all of these widows would have had dependent children of course , but a significant proportion must have done as there were 460 children under 14 in the 403 households in this group . |
| 30 | It has been claimed that Mr Gooderham may have had financial problems . |