Example sentences of "may [adv] have had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these compounds may already have had metabolism in the liver or small intestine , or both , before reaching the colon by biliary excretion . |
| 2 | Usually , these men 's urine flow will be abnormally slow , even in the absence of prostatic enlargement , and they may always have had difficulty urinating in a public place , according to Graham Watson , who runs a prostatitis clinic at the London Institute of Urology . |
| 3 | They may also have had misgivings about the power and influence of residential staff over children , and the potential abuses which could and sometimes do occur . |
| 4 | A number of firms may also have had problems in achieving the synergies expected of newly formed structures . |
| 5 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 6 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 7 | Some are built with stone , others with turf and peat , and some may originally have had timber fences on the top ( and beneath ) . |
| 8 | They may even have had servants , and I remember seeing photographs of her in a beautiful gown . |
| 9 | Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 . |
| 10 | The Minoans , under the influence of exactly the same drug , may well have had visions of a fantastic , maze-like building , and based the design for the Labyrinth on their visions . |