Example sentences of "may have have a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The site is only four miles from Corinium and this has led to the speculation that the establishment may have had a special function in a large estate . |
| 32 | Long Latin words are full of syllables which resemble ‘ bum ’ and ‘ tit ’ and ‘ poo ’ much more , and an idly dreaming miniaturist may have had a thought process set off by half-reading the Latin : if in lege domini ( Psalm 1:2 ) really suggested the funny men made of legs on the opening pages of the Bardolf-Vaux and Ormesby Psalters , then this tells us that the artists , like Professor Camille , spoke English . |
| 33 | He was a friend of President Kennedy 's and he wrote a rather fulsome biography Marilyn Monroe , and in his most recent novel he allows the suspicion — just the suspicion — that Jack may have had a hand in killing Marilyn , and that the CIA may have winked at the killing of Jack . |
| 34 | Here , with my seal-profile friend Fairfax , in the sight of the Mountain of God , I see that Victoria may have had a point . |
| 35 | Another complaint was that the trial judge failed to give the jury any warning about the evidence of Zaidie and Matadial as witnesses who may have had a purpose of their own to serve or whose evidence could be tainted by an improper motive . |
| 36 | I may have had a foolish mother but at least she was there . |
| 37 | It follows that recent rises in unemployment may have had a relatively greater impact on property-owning white-collar workers than was the case in the early 1980s ; moreover , the latter will also be more highly geared than average . |
| 38 | Although there were suggestions that Ashraf may have had a hand in the affair it seems more likely that the Shah dalliance with another women was the real cause . " |
| 39 | Most of the printed newsbooks now attributed to Mabbott 's editorship were probably not written by him , although there is some evidence that he may have had a hand in The Perfect Diurnall ( 1642–55 ) , edited by Samuel Pecke . |
| 40 | The ozone pollution problem may have had a long association with southern California but it has now become a very serious problem in the Texas Gulf coast , the north-east corridor , and other heavily populated regions ( figure 8.11 ) . |
| 41 | Some Saharan ergs may have had a similar origin but others may have occupied basins of centripetal drainage into which sand was transported in periods of wetter climate . |
| 42 | We made sure that er on each occasion er we reached a figure or a set of figures that would be mutually acceptable to ask the colleague or colleagues and , and then it was registered in the minutes as a , so we could refer back to er any cases er that were similar and that then made life easier for the shop stewards er who may have had a recurrence of the same problem . |
| 43 | One , in the grounds of Tullie House Museum just outside the fort gate , was 12.2m ( 40 ft ) by at least 67 m ( 219 ft ) , with a substantial plank floor over a solid foundation , and may have had a military function ; attempts have also been made to interpret it as the base for a rampart surrounding an annexe to the fort . |
| 44 | There was no other way out of the building than through here , though the girls may have had a secret exit of their own , and this antechamber was guarded more fiercely by Nubenehem than ever a desert demon guarded its cave . |
| 45 | I may have had a few words with her , but that 's all . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ Cologne may have had a poor start to the season , but they are typically disciplined like all German sides and will play as they are told to play by their coach . |
| 47 | No , no he was n't well , I went to see her er I think he may have had a stroke and he ca n't get about very well at all |
| 48 | My hon. Friend the Member for Welwyn Hatfield may have had a point when he said — it was a tough line to take — that all admissions into this country should be suspended until we have caught up , and then we could reduce the waiting period to six weeks . |
| 49 | A number of those involved were artisans from the Kentish towns , some of whom , particularly those connected with the cloth trade , may have had a special grievance , as a sharp decline in cloth exports after 1448 could well have caused local unemployment ( 66 , pp.96–7 ) . |
| 50 | He may have had a sixth sense about the presence of some stranger in the house ; more likely he saw some physical evidence — a coat , a hat — belonging to a person he knew . |
| 51 | It may have had a different meaning in a different place ( e.g. " cot " means a child 's bed in British English , but also a bed for adults in Indian English ) , or at a different time ( e.g. " gentle " used to carry the meaning of " upper class " , as in " gentry " , but which now can be used as an approving description — something like " sensitive " — of anyone 's character ) . |
| 52 | In fact these two opinions are not incompatible : a Merovingian may have had a large income , but he also had vast financial commitments ; he had to reward his faithful retainers ; he had to endow the shrines of the saints , to ensure their support , and that of the clergy who served them ; he would also have to demonstrate his piety in almsgiving . |
| 53 | Later these people reached all the inhabited areas of the Pacific and possibly America , it having been argued that they may have had a considerable influence on the rain-forest peoples of the New World , evidence coming from great similarities between certain groups in Borneo and central America , similarities greater than between these peoples and their geographic neighbours . |
| 54 | football may have had a rough old week … but we 've got some celebrating to do now … |
| 55 | The Marquis may have had a diggicult year but the last few months though have been more difficult for Becky Blandford . |
| 56 | I MAY have had a sheltered upbringing , but to me gin has always been one of the most sophisticated of drinks . |
| 57 | ‘ They may have panicked , may have had a gut reaction to run . ’ |
| 58 | His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex . |
| 59 | He had a distinctive hooked gold earring in his left ear , wore a blue denim jacket and jeans and may have had a chipped front tooth . |
| 60 | Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved . |