Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | One possible theory about why some people are much more affected than others is that they may have had traumatic experiences of falling as a baby or a young child , and that this has further re-inforced their instinctive behaviour . |
| 2 | Clearly they failed to bring about disarmament , though they may have had a contributory effect on the decision to suspend tests in 1958 and later on the partial test ban treaty . |
| 3 | The people then had an opportunity to raise any doubts or difficulties they may have had about the sermon or other spiritual problem they faced , and Richard Baxter would try to answer their difficulties and resolve their doubts . |
| 4 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 5 | They may have had the unsettling experience of living in three different households — the original family , an interim family with only one parent — and the newly-formed stepfamily . |
| 6 | The similarity of their design to cup-and-ring patterns is striking and suggests that they may have had a ritual function . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |
| 9 | GIMMICK ! and f—s up any chance they may have had of ever being taken seriously . |
| 10 | These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use . |
| 11 | ‘ The idea is to bring these management information systems directors together and have them discuss how they judge the profitability of a new computing architecture and to talk about the results they may have had from rightsizing changes , ’ Saillard says . |
| 12 | Any plans they may have had , however , were forestalled by Gloucester 's seizure of the prince at Stony Stratford . |
| 13 | Even people who claim to remember dreams every morning only recall their most recent dream , and any dreams they may have had during the two or three REM periods earlier in the night , or even during REM sleep , are completely lost . |
| 14 | You can also record the letters they suggest , and talk about them afterwards , how likely they were , whether they were pure guesswork or genuine predictions , which words they may have had in mind , etc . |
| 15 | Among churchmen , even those few bishops who had given enthusiastic support to the coup of 1327 had done so largely out of exasperation with the Despensers ' greed on the Marches or with royal failure to defend the north against Scotland : such personal links as they may have had with Isabella and Mortimer were strained both by a peace which left the north exposed and by Mortimer 's ruthless venality . |
| 16 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |
| 17 | It gave the clients confidence in my abilities , and also told them any hopes they may have had of getting away with a fifty dollar fee should be left with the receptionist . |
| 18 | Since nearly all High Court judges are appointed when they are between about 45 and 57 it is likely that they will have shed such political enthusiasms as they may have had when young and have formed firm views about how the country should be run . |
| 19 | Erm certainly that that highlighted for people , the the sort of fears that they may have had before . |
| 20 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 21 | They may have had some children . |
| 22 | by no means all the composers were Protestants ; Senfl , Arnold von Bruck , Mahu , and Hellinck were not , although they may have had secret leanings to Protestantism ; but Rhaw also published Latin church music , while Catholics all over Europe enjoyed vernacular Calvinist psalms . |
| 23 | They were sometimes the heads of administrative units known as hundreds — hundredal manors with some of the characteristics of a town , and they may have had the minster church , upon which the churches elsewhere on the estate were dependent . |
| 24 | One of its most important aspects is that people who go on to DWA will retain their underlying entitlement to any benefit which they may have had before they went on to DWA and that they will not have to requalify , if they fail in their efforts to work . |
| 25 | Their spouses may not have been able to save much during their lives ; they may have had low-paid jobs . |
| 26 | Conversely , the colour may well be perfect but they may have had their fill before you arrived . |
| 27 | All of a sudden our theories looked as though they may have had some foundation . |
| 28 | A further problem is that in most cases the witnesses ’ recollections of the events may have been biased by descriptions already given in interviews with the police and discussions they may have had with others . |
| 29 | Any plans they may have had , however , were forestalled by Gloucester 's seizure of the prince at Stony Stratford . |
| 30 | Later these people reached all the inhabited areas of the Pacific and possibly America , it having been argued that they may have had a considerable influence on the rain-forest peoples of the New World , evidence coming from great similarities between certain groups in Borneo and central America , similarities greater than between these peoples and their geographic neighbours . |