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 .
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