Example sentences of "may [adv] have had [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The latter , however , may also have had an adverse effect as many housing writers have pointed out . |
2 | We may accept that male cooperation was needed for fertility to fall , while at the same time arguing that the opinions of wives may also have had an important effect on husbands . |
3 | She may be surprised , disconcerted ; she may even have had no conscious intention of getting involved with this particular man . |
4 | This close association of Church and Party may well have had a cost to the Church in limiting recruitment to people who are not committed supporters of the Official Unionist Party but , given that the DUP support is twenty times the size of the Free Church and that there is a large uncommitted population , this is probably not something which explains why more people do not join the Free Church . |
5 | If you had your baby at BMH , you may well have had a leaflet left on your bed by Birmingham West branch . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The conductor William Llewellyn may well have had a few sleepless nights but must have been proud of his singers . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | This may well have had a bearing on Washington 's decision later in the year to send out the hostage intelligence team , headed by Major Charles McKee of the DIA , who died in the bombing of Flight 103 . |
11 | Indeed , the loss of the Asmar network 's continuing surveillance of NARCOG 's operations in Lebanon may well have had a bearing on the bombing itself . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | If there is little sign of this on your trees you may well have had the luck to inherit or wisdom to plant one of the less scab-prone varieties , of which there are a surprising number . |
14 | Indeed , it may well have had the indirect , beneficial effect of encouraging the search for better methods . |
15 | However , the positive attitudes of Rastafarians towards Creole — in contrast to the negative attitudes of the Caribbean establishment , the majority of older generation Caribbeans in Britain , and the white British establishment — may well have had the effect of promoting the use of Creole among black ( and to some extent , white ) youth . |
16 | It may therefore have had an earlier importance as an alternative main road to Oxford in late Saxon times before the arrival of Woodstock . |
17 | Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers . |