Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] have a " in BNC.

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1 With the higher populations of Amerindians in the past , such groups must have had a major effect on the structure of the forest .
2 Dinosaurs may have had a four-chambered heart ; if so they were probably warm-blooded .
3 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 ) .
4 Even the landscapes , birds and animals may have had a religious significance ( see Chapter 6 ) .
5 ‘ The drivers must have had a shock .
6 A significant number of subjects ( 7/37 ) , however , had food reflux that was outside one standard deviation from the mean , whereas only one of these subjects would have had a positive reflux score by measuring acid alone .
7 Sealstones and frescoes often depict cult scenes ; stone vessels were often intended for cult use ; the finest faience figurines were idols ; the metal and clay figurines and miniature double-axes were intended as offerings to deities ; the recurring marine motif on the pottery and in frescoes may have had a cult association with the worship of Poseidon .
8 Aside from running their hands over the dog 's body and legs , checking its conformation , judges may want to have a clear view of the dog 's mouth , to check , for example , that the jaws are neither under or overshot , according to the breed standard .
9 The Conservatives might seem to have a legitimate claim as the largest single party ; but they had failed to obtain a mandate for Protection .
10 Rovers might have had a penalty after 29 minutes when Aldridge was felled by Prior but referee John Lloyd of Wrexham dismissed the appeals .
11 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 ’ .
12 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 .
13 Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him .
14 A further reason why trustees of non-UK-resident trusts will prefer to have a disposal of shares rather than receive a distribution derives from s79(1) of and Sch 6 to the 1993 Finance Act , which brings the rate of income tax payable by certain non-UK-resident trustees in line with the rate applicable to UK-resident trustees , namely 35% of the grossed-up amount of the distribution received .
15 The resultant high temperatures and high humidities could have had a disastrous effect on both land and marine faunas .
16 Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more .
17 The number of sympathisers able to support IRA operations on the Continent is smaller than in Northern Ireland , so the recruitment of a few informers may have had a disproportionate effect .
18 Without it individuals would have had a choice as to which of the acceptable solutions to adopt .
19 However , the scientists say they believed the layer would continue to thin every winter at least for the next eight years , after which a ban on use of certain gases will start to have a beneficial effect .
20 But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history .
21 This week 's extension of the suspension has lead to a further letter to unit trust holders.But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history .
22 They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort .
23 External economic changes would seem to have a specific and localised impact on businesses within the particular sectors most immediately affected : neither the Big Bang nor the Crash has necessarily triggered off either an expansion or diminution of headhunting across the board in British companies generally .
24 You might have thought these further disclosures would have had a powerful effect on me but , of course , I was inured to surprise where this man was concerned .
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 There is no need to go beyond that , although in many circumstances such persons would have had a duty , either legal or moral .
27 To be able to take immediate advantage of the Novell local area network integration features of UnixWare — and Univel is primarily targeting NetWare users — customers will need to have a copy of NetWare installed already .
28 Local firms will need to have a good grasp of the challenges or threats that 1992 will bring , to have a good feel for which sectors and industries locally will be most affected when the barriers come down .
29 Things can appear to have a different significance if you view them from a different vantage-point .
30 Some Saharan ergs may have had a similar origin but others may have occupied basins of centripetal drainage into which sand was transported in periods of wetter climate .
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