Example sentences of "may have had an [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So how he came to be carrying a cannister of CS gas is being invistigated … he may have had an accomplice .
2 The letter suggests the two may have had an affair .
3 Certainly she was desperately trying to raise money , and one John Crosse , with whom she may have had an affair , was involved .
4 There is a suggestion that S & N directors were unhappy with the standard of diesel cars for senior executives , and the fact there are no diesel Jaguars may have had an influence .
5 The Orphic idea of Chronos , which may have had an influence on Pythagoras , seems rather like the Iranian idea of Zurvan akarana .
6 Data from the New Zealand cot death study show that the prevalence of the prone sleeping position decreased before the campaign in New Zealand and suggest that other publicity , such as that generated by fundraising campaigns , may have had an influence .
7 ‘ This may have been a mixture of excitement , curiosity and immaturity — and the payment of money by the accused may have had an influence , ’ he said .
8 In association with his technically minded relative , Thomas ( the exact relationship is not known ) , he may have had an iron furnace and hammer-pond at Hamsell Farm , and possibly a smelter and perhaps a coining press in Isleworth at the end of the century .
9 Thomas Garvine ( possibly an early version of the surnames Garven and Girvan common in Ayrshire at present ) is thought to have been born about 1685 , in or near Kilmarnock , although the Earl of Loudoun 's intervention on his behalf suggests that he may have had an Irvine valley connection .
10 Drugs may have had an effect .
11 The warning may have had an effect , but did nothing to dispel feelings among various groups of workers that the Party was not dealing with reform correctly .
12 So in the past , when we were not shielded from moonlight , it may have had an effect .
13 This may have had an effect on the conversation : first , in respect of the content , which may have been different from what they would otherwise have talked about , and secondly in that the girls may have tried consciously to use " Jamaican " .
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