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

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1 Both works were to be translated from Latin into the vernacular languages in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; both were known in military circles ; and both may have had some influence on the formation of changing attitudes to leadership .
2 Essentially viceroy of the newly conquered lands , his position suggests the confidence which Edward placed in him ; and he may have had some influence , as his Savoyard friends and kinsmen certainly did , on the design of the castles by which Wales was to be held down .
3 This system worked very slowly and made secrecy virtually impossible : it has been calculated that in all some 2,000 people may have had some influence , direct or indirect , on the functioning of this cumbersome machinery .
4 The human suffering which results from an accident can be severe and can result in some form of life-long disablement or disfigurement for the victim , not forgetting the stress and guilt which is borne by the person who may have had some responsibility for the accident occurring .
5 Nowhere so far in my limited knowledge of the pair has evidence of shorthand materialised — ; although at law he may have had some awareness of the skill .
6 Alex may have had some response ready , but he got no chance to voice it , as Bobby Anscombe turned his fury on Paul Lexington .
7 The propaganda may have had some success ; it was , nevertheless , necessary .
8 She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter :
9 All of a sudden our theories looked as though they may have had some foundation .
10 Prior Robert may have had some qualms concerning his own worthiness , though that was a weakness to which he seldom succumbed .
11 Jenner wondered if the unanaesthetised de-clawing may have had some effect on this , and he offered the theory that an alternative source of pain might cause a distraction from the tail-crushing effects of caudate stimulation .
12 I was hoping you may have had some ideas about that . ’
13 Unhappily , habits which may have had some virtue in times of scarcity became vices in times of relative abundance .
14 They may have had some basis in reality because bones of a large primate 3.5 metres tall and weighing 800 pounds , found in caves in southern China , date back to over 300,000 years ago at the time Homo Erectus was still alive .
15 They may have had some children .
16 Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes .
17 These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use .
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