Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] have have [art] " in BNC.

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1 If state officials perform a particular action , the elite must have had a goal which that action helps .
2 My mum must have had a seizure of something when she had me — ‘ Let's call him Lenworth ! ’
3 But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this .
4 If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use .
5 football may have had a rough old week … but we 've got some celebrating to do now …
6 I mean , let's face it , penis envy is a is a pretty wacky idea however you look at it , and you ca n't blame people for thinking , oh you know , this Viennese professor must have had a , had a diseased mind or something to come across such a crazy idea .
7 Can you please tell us which members of the club might have had a specific motive for wishing to get rid of Sir Conrad ? ’
8 Even Phyllis 's racial prejudice might have had a touch of the humorous about it , if it were n't so offensive and pathetic .
9 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 .
10 Mummy will have to have a
11 If only Kinnock had been able to show us this side of himself when he was still Leader of the Labour Party , the election might have had a very different result .
12 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 .
13 Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it .
14 Bouvard et Pécuchet would have been finished ; Madame Bovary might have been suppressed ( how seriously do we take Gustave 's petulance against the overbearing fame of the book ? a little seriously ) ; and L'Education sentimentale might have had a different ending .
15 Vessels may have been used for eating , drinking , containing and carrying liquids , but each type may have had a specific function such as the use of open bowls as lamps .
16 Long Latin words are full of syllables which resemble ‘ bum ’ and ‘ tit ’ and ‘ poo ’ much more , and an idly dreaming miniaturist may have had a thought process set off by half-reading the Latin : if in lege domini ( Psalm 1:2 ) really suggested the funny men made of legs on the opening pages of the Bardolf-Vaux and Ormesby Psalters , then this tells us that the artists , like Professor Camille , spoke English .
17 Relativity may have had a better press , but it is quantum theory that we have to thank , at a practical level , for our understanding of chemistry , molecular biology and solid-state physics , as well as nuclear physics and the deeper puzzles of particle theory .
18 The ice cream girl must have had a lie in this Sunday morning , and she arrived towards the end of the film showing prior to the interval .
19 The taxi took them off to a small restaurant , and with everywhere seeming crowded to full capacity Fabia guessed , when they were straight away shown to a table , that Ven must have had the forethought to book in advance .
20 The Waldron City Herald night editor must have had a fit trying to decide which one got the three inch banner .
21 However , it did not resolve the crucial question : Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang , a beginning of time ?
22 This would mean that science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning , but that it could not predict how the universe should begin : For that , one would have to appeal to God .
23 As experimental and theoretical evidence mounted , it became more and more clear that the universe must have had a beginning in time , until in 1970 this was finally proved by Penrose and myself , on the basis of Einstein 's general theory of relativity .
24 The boy must have had a terrible time at school .
25 His claim about South African involvement was subsequently ridiculed in the press and elsewhere in a way reminiscent of the scorn poured for so many years on the suggestion that British intelligence might have had a link with the Zinoviev letter .
26 One one boy might have had the belt , say once in the week or a month , at Girran .
27 The work of Lifshitz and Khalatnikov was valuable because it showed that the universe could have had a singularity , a big bang , if the general theory of relativity was correct .
28 Equally , Mrs Smith argued , the common law would have had no difficulty in affording a right of action to parents in a case such as the present one .
29 The handicapped child , who would eventually have to move into society , would be ill-equipped to face that society 's tensions and realities whilst the ‘ normal ’ child would have had no experience , during the impressionable and formative years , of relating to the disabled .
30 Opponents said the plan would have had a variable impact , because of differences in the charges of landfill operators across the country .
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