Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have had no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the middle of the twelfth century , John 's French readers would have had no difficulty in making the necessary identifications : castellans and viscounts , baillis and prévôts , household officers , the clerks , knights , and chamberlains of princely courts abounded . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There were small stock-piles of tear gas in the prison to be used in the event of riots or large scale disturbances and Nicholson would have had no compunction about using them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In relation to such a claim the ex turpi causa defence could have had no application . |
| 7 | … As appears from the decision below , the plaintiff could have had no certainty of ultimate success , and we are of opinion that it was not called upon to take the risk of having its contracts disputed and its business injured and of finding the tax more or less nearly doubled in case it finally had to pay . |
| 8 | But the assumption , doubtful in itself , that in a Co-operative Community the distinction would have had no meaning does not explain why , when in the real world of Rochdale in the 1850s the distinction became apparent to them the Pioneers chose to set up the production arm as a separate society . |
| 9 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ said Finn , and Lydia decided that even had he not gone off with the duck their relationship would have had no future . |
| 10 | In later law , however , a testator would have had no need to concern himself with this , since a rescript of Severus and Caracalla introduced the rule that , failing evidence to the contrary , dispositions charged on the heir were also to be understood to be payable by a substitute . |
| 11 | The visitor whose footsteps he had heard circling the house that last dawn they had ever spent there , if indeed he had heard them and not , in his state of panic , imagined them — that man or woman would have had no evidence for thinking anyone lived there but for the presence of Goblander on the drive . |
| 12 | Donaldson would have had no option but to make arrangements for the delegation , even though he may have been well aware of what the reaction would be . |
| 13 | There was so much hostility to his Catholicism and his attack on chartered rights that it might have been thought William and Mary would have had no difficulty establishing their authority in America , but this was not what happened . |
| 14 | At that first meeting my father can have had no idea of the troubles this boy would bring upon his country . |
| 15 | Faith would have had no patience with it . |
| 16 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 17 | She was informed , as was everyone else in the council statement , that Mr Clayton would have had no access to the sort of information quoted in the paper . |
| 18 | The Hammonds would have had no defence to an action for the price . |
| 19 | To brand the Celtic Church heretical would have been tantamount to a declaration of war ; and in the event of such a war , Rome would have had no prospect whatever of victory . |
| 20 | However , Hannon maintains that any stiffness would have had no connection with the broken leg which led to Mr Brooks ' death . |
| 21 | But trainer Hannon said any stiffness would have had no connection with the broken leg which led to Mr Brooks ' death . |
| 22 | It is plain that , if title to the property had been unregistered , Mr. Steed would have had no remedy against the building society . |