Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have had the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The truth is that Chelsea should have had the game sewn up long before Beasant 's blunder .
2 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 .
3 One one boy might have had the belt , say once in the week or a month , at Girran .
4 Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ .
5 A reshaped back four took time to settle and Swindon could have had the points wrapped up inside half hour .
6 It is a mystery why only one genus of this formerly diverse group should have had the capacity to survive to the present day .
7 If the laws in question were the great legal compilation known as the Codex Euricianus , then the king must have had the support of numerous Roman lawyers from relatively early in his reign .
8 Candidates for an overseas assignment should have had the opportunity to digest all information given to them on the new job , country , life style , compensation package and effects on their careers and families before being interviewed for the post .
9 Then William and Harry would have had the support of their parents during what must undoubtedly be a very traumatic time for them .
10 In any event , the emergence of the generic tort of interference with trade or business by unlawful means may have had the effect that most cases which were formerly regarded as unlawful means conspiracies amount to torts even without the element of combination .
11 Graham said the Swedish FA should have had the courtesy to inform him .
12 His grace will have had the tomb made in advance , to remind him of things to come .
13 However , an explicit consideration of the broader themes of education management as such is a luxury which fewer people will have had the time , or perhaps the inclination , to undertake .
14 By the end of 1994 thousands more retail staff will have had the opportunity to earn this important award .
15 A pair of young fighters who come into the ring and fight a contest of this kind would have had the referee boxing their ears and offering such terse words as ‘ get in there and fight ’ .
16 This logical change would have had the effect of encouraging the diversion of more people from court proceedings .
17 This decision would have had the effect of making a software designer 's choice of storage medium crucial to the question of patentability but it was , fortunately , quickly overruled in the Court of Appeal where Lord Justice Nicholls said : It would equally be nonsense if a floppy disc [ sic ] containing a computer program was not patentable that a ROM characterised only by the instructions in that program should be patentable
18 CRUMLIN Road jail escaper Joe Doherty should have had the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before a decision was taken to delay a review of his sentence until he had served 10 years in Northern Ireland , a court has heard .
19 Many hon. Members will have had the experience of constituents who say , ’ I do n't understand how inflation can be coming down when prices are still going up . ’
20 His four wonderful , but ultimately futile , goals against Partizan Belgrade must have had the World Cup alarm bells ringing in England .
21 The Court of Appeal said that the plaintiffs would have had the right to review Coopers ' decision only if there could be implied into the original agreement words describing this kind of challenge which qualified the " final and binding " description of the decision in the appropriate manner .
22 My men will have had the place staked out since dawn .
23 They evidently thought that Meryl Armitage should have had the job .
24 For his pains my first bedmate could have had the benefits of a protracted rest in one of our quaint medieval prisons .
25 If the test case had been successful , 200,000 motorists guilty of failing to supply samples would have had the chance to appeal .
26 They had found the answer to the American conundrum , and they assured themselves that no other people on earth would have had the qualities necessary to do so .
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