Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | Its collapse could have had serious roll-on effects on the finances of these airports , and the relevant local authorities stepped in . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A ‘ revolutionary committee ’ of barons seemed about to take control of the central government : the forest would have had short shrift from them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Furthermore , he was informed that the water may have had medicinal properties . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His interest in Edmund Ironside and Edward the Martyr is thus the first of several indications that attitudes to religion in his reign may have had distinct political overtones . |
| 16 | So the smaller children in the crowd must have had awful problems . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The patient should have had central chest pain in the classic distribution for at least 15 minutes . |
| 19 | The discovery in a rented villa in France horrified Anne and Clive Postlethwaite ; now back home from their holiday with their two children Rachel and Matthew , concerned that their find could have had tragic consequences . |
| 20 | The Institute felt that such a panel would have to have legal powers to enforce standards if necessary , as the UK panel does , and has asked the government to take the appropriate steps . |
| 21 | Constantine 's mother may have had Christian sympathies . |
| 22 | The person who prescribed the medicine may have had homoeopathic experience but was not using homoeopathy in this case . |
| 23 | The Victorian family would have had young children around until the parents were in their late middle age . |
| 24 | And the same amount of things per head of the population will have been produced in the same ways by the same classes of people for many generations together ; and therefore this supply of the appliances for production will have had full time to be adjusted to the steady demand . |