Example sentences of "[noun pl] may [verb] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is also possible that the animals may have had other significance . |
2 | H pylori is associated with gastritis and peptic ulcer and possibly with non-ulcer dyspepsia , so both patients may have had chronic infection . |
3 | It will be argued that such factors may have had considerable influence on what are widely believed to have been exclusively ‘ political ’ decisions . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . ’ |