Example sentences of "[noun] may have had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It is possible the killer may have had local knowledge , ’ said Det Supt Cole .
2 It is also possible that the animals may have had other significance .
3 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 .
4 Furthermore , he was informed that the water may have had medicinal properties .
5 H pylori is associated with gastritis and peptic ulcer and possibly with non-ulcer dyspepsia , so both patients may have had chronic infection .
6 It has been claimed that Mr Gooderham may have had financial problems .
7 Jean-Claude may have had artistic integrity on his side but he did not have a legal leg to stand on .
8 It will be argued that such factors may have had considerable influence on what are widely believed to have been exclusively ‘ political ’ decisions .
9 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 .
10 Constantine 's mother may have had Christian sympathies .
11 The person who prescribed the medicine may have had homoeopathic experience but was not using homoeopathy in this case .
12 Chemical apparatus tends to be broken , or reused in new arrangements ; but the historian may hope that even here laboratories may have had capacious cupboards into which unused pieces have been stuffed and thus preserved .
13 Said a daily newspaper : ‘ The Beatles and the Stones may have had similar scenes but even they could never have induced bullet-headed toughies with flat noses and bovver boots to wear stick-on gold stars round their eyes . ’
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