Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have had a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His mother should not have had a full ( or even half-full ) mug or one with a handle . |
| 2 | Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle . |
| 3 | Consequently , other market members ( and their customers ) may not have had a proper opportunity to participate in the trade . |
| 4 | Thus , prices on Simex may not have had a measurable effect on the index . |
| 5 | She may or may not have had a longstanding paranoid personality ; that 's hard for relatives to cope with , but not necessarily pathological . ’ |
| 6 | There is no reason to think that people in the past may not have had a profound understanding of God , an understanding which will illuminate one 's own . |
| 7 | The dazed expression had almost left her face and I wondered if she might not have had a slight stroke when Celia abandoned her , and was now recovering . |
| 8 | Instead , structured gestural sequences , or syntagmata as MacNeill calls them , might already have had a rudimentary grammar before they were overlaid by speech . |
| 9 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 10 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 11 | Again , the trade guilds probably had enough storage space in their own guild-halls for the coffin and cloaks , they might even have had a private stock of candles . |
| 12 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 13 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 14 | I think that you might call Duff Hart-Davis a travel writer too , at least by osmosis , since his godfather was if I remember rightly Peter Fleming , who might well have had a stern word or two to say about Mrs Izzard 's book . |
| 15 | Had it been otherwise the battle might well have had a different outcome . |
| 16 | Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself . |
| 17 | She could n't imagine he could ever have had a single moment of nervous insecurity in his whole charmed life . |
| 18 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 19 | The increase in this woodland may well have had a beneficial effect on the Woodcock and has provided the increasing breeding Redpoll population with an abundance of habitat . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , he may well have had a guilty conscience : he certainly tried to use his influence to poison Mozart 's career , out of sheer jealousy at the younger man 's superior talents ; but he does not seem to have been directly involved in his death . |
| 21 | The flock are unlikely to have been as completely innocent as the latter suggests , and their guilt may well have had a secular aspect , for it might be doubted whether Cnut would have become involved with spiritual shortcomings . |
| 22 | Like Julian , perhaps , Teresa also had an illness that may well have had a psychological aspect and which brought her to the brink of death ; her autobiography and spiritual writings show how she brought herself a physical and spiritual healing . |
| 23 | Herr Hans-Eberhard Klein , the Frankfurt prosecutor who led the search , said : ‘ I am glad it is over , but I would rather have had a live Mengele than a dead one so that some of the thousands who suffered under him could have gained some little satisfaction from a trial . ’ |
| 24 | I hooked up a wriggling worm and ate it : it tasted alright , earthy and slightly gritty , but I would rather have had a proper meal . |
| 25 | ‘ They both might be fit for Saturday and , even though they will not have had a reserve team match , they could well come straight back into the squad , ’ he added . |
| 26 | I hope you will not have had a fruitless journey , Mrs er — ’ |
| 27 | However , computer simulations using state-of-the-art general atmospheric circulation models undertaken in Britain , Canada , Germany and the United States all suggest the fires will have added only 2–5 per cent to world emissions of carbon dioxide in 1991 and that this increase will not have had a significant influence on world climate change . |
| 28 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |