Example sentences of "[modal v] have have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What they should 've done , instead of having all them machines on that moors they should 've had damn bugger stripped to waist digging it out .
2 The patient should have had central chest pain in the classic distribution for at least 15 minutes .
3 I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party .
4 The application of this incorrect test may have materially affected the judge 's decision , since he may well have considered that the children 's welfare overrode the mother 's wishes and feelings , a matter to which he should have had particular regard under section 10(9) ( d ) ( ii ) .
5 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 .
6 St. Peter 's must have had strong affinity with the nearby Castle .
7 Here , if anywhere , one would think we must have had continuous sedimentation .
8 The other little drawer contained a jumble of trinkets and keepsakes ; some , like the pearl drop on a gold chain , were valuable ; others , like a battered old Mickey Mouse pencil-sharpener , must have had sentimental value .
9 By 1525 in the latter shire a quarter of the personal estate in a sample of forty villages was owned by 4 per cent of the rural population , excluding the squires — clearly there were some members of the peasantry who must have had sufficient wealth to dominate their fellows ( 81 , pp.26–7 ; 83 , pp.17 , 142 ) .
10 Dignam must have had unusual stamina .
11 ‘ He 'll have to have residential care , ’ said Nina .
12 ‘ But the 1861 to 1865 papers are kept under lock and key , ’ warned the owner , inferring that those that I freely but reverently leafed through might have to have similar protection one day .
13 Of course , he might have had dental work done abroad . "
14 we could have had hot water winterlong .
15 Its collapse could have had serious roll-on effects on the finances of these airports , and the relevant local authorities stepped in .
16 It is also possible that the animals may have had other significance .
17 The person who prescribed the medicine may have had homoeopathic experience but was not using homoeopathy in this case .
18 Given the complexities of Merovingian family politics , Chlothar 's denial of paternity is not conclusive : he may have had good reason to disassociate himself from Gundovald 's mother .
19 This patient may have had asymptomatic M tuberculosis infection in this classic anatomical site , as is well recognised in patients with chronic bronchitis , in whom it may be unmasked by treatment with steroids .
20 H pylori is associated with gastritis and peptic ulcer and possibly with non-ulcer dyspepsia , so both patients may have had chronic infection .
21 It will be argued that such factors may have had considerable influence on what are widely believed to have been exclusively ‘ political ’ decisions .
22 Jean-Claude may have had artistic integrity on his side but he did not have a legal leg to stand on .
23 Other parents , however , may want their child to attend a special school and may have had positive information about children with visual handicap who have been happy and successful in these schools .
24 ‘ It is possible the killer may have had local knowledge , ’ said Det Supt Cole .
25 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 .
26 She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries .
27 But for the opening of two artificial pitches at Feltham School , they would have had great difficulty in finding a home venue in recent seasons .
28 If they had served small areas , the CMHTs would have had great difficulty in liaising with the specialist facilities and organizations ( statutory and non-statutory ) which characterize the mental handicap field and which necessarily tend to cover large areas if not regions .
29 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 .
30 Just as I am sure twenty-seven victories seemed utterly insufficient to Jackie — and had he not retired , he was certainly fit enough and a good enough driver , given the right cars , to which he would have had total access , to notch up another fifteen or twenty — I am sure that his first million seemed a trifle .
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