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 . ’
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