Example sentences of "have had some " in BNC.

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1 The Woods ' speech also introduced an important new argument which may have had some considerable effect on Irish voters .
2 She said : ‘ But he must have had some reason for wanting to talk to you . ’
3 He was to see the beginnings of the great urban slums of New York and Chicago , and he must have had some sense of this if they were going to speak to American working people , but still , there was the mythology , the possibility of millions of dollars waiting to be made .
4 From the lists I made , I came to feel that European culture in the last millennium may have had some 100 real heroes , the mastersingers of Europe , of which I have tried to identify half .
5 The switch from almost ignoring the issue in the first week to so much concentration in the third should have had some effect upon the public .
6 They would have had some sort of premonition , or maybe some would say they would have had a revelation from God .
7 The opinion gained ground — an opinion with which Eric Ashby would evidently have had some sympathy — that the employment of a full-time tutor for the county , whether by the WEA or by the University Extra-Mural Board , placed constraints on branches ' freedom to choose subjects of study because of pressure to find a viable programme for the full-timer to teach .
8 But it was a considerable enterprise and it must have had some considerable justification .
9 She may have had some outdoor work as well , such as feeding poultry .
10 The only conclusion that can be drawn from the above correspondence is that Stirling must have had some sort of operation in mind using parachutes during the period when he was returning from his second visit to Sirte .
11 The human suffering which results from an accident can be severe and can result in some form of life-long disablement or disfigurement for the victim , not forgetting the stress and guilt which is borne by the person who may have had some responsibility for the accident occurring .
12 We could n't see the slightest movement in the fog , but gradually the noise of the engines diminished and died away , and the collective sigh of relief from the top of Flying Control must have had some part in the clearance of the fog , as by the time all four aircraft returned ( bomb-less ) we could actually see the 1,000 yard marker on the other side of the field .
13 Must have had some bad cider on the lunchtime .
14 So Balder Head must have had some architectural significance or other , although I doubt if anyone in the dale realized it .
15 ‘ Someone in overall charge of training who should have had some formal training in that field themselves ’ .
16 ‘ A good husband would naturally not discuss such things with his wife , but you must have had some idea .
17 They may have had some basis in reality because bones of a large primate 3.5 metres tall and weighing 800 pounds , found in caves in southern China , date back to over 300,000 years ago at the time Homo Erectus was still alive .
18 She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter :
19 Nos. 41 and 57 which must have had some defects , were sold to T. W. Ward for scrapping at the same time .
20 He must have had some friends in .
21 I said : ‘ I told you you should have had some breakfast ’ . ’
22 He was knocked around so much by his father that he ended up with a crooked leg , but he must have had some courage , because he was the only one of his clutch to survive .
23 These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use .
24 Unhappily , habits which may have had some virtue in times of scarcity became vices in times of relative abundance .
25 Scotland was an unhappy country in the late seventeenth century , partly for reasons beyond the control of politicians or merchants ; the climate grew steadily harsher , for these were the worst years of the ‘ little ice age ’ that ran from 1500 to 1850 and must have had some general effect of encouraging emigration from Europe .
26 Both works were to be translated from Latin into the vernacular languages in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; both were known in military circles ; and both may have had some influence on the formation of changing attitudes to leadership .
27 It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level .
28 I was hoping you may have had some ideas about that . ’
29 It can not be assumed , therefore , that stimulation would not have had some effect on another occasion in those patients who were stimulated but showed no interference in their speech .
30 One consequence of this is that the sharp rise in the proportion of young couples in the owner-occupied sector over the post-war period ( and the even greater number who aspire to this sector ) must have had some effect in reinforcing fertility decline in Britain in recent decades although , of course , many developed countries have also experienced declines over this period , so it would be naive to emphasize this ( or indeed any single cause ) as the sole or primary explanation .
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