Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] have any " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Shakespeare " denotes someone who might have had any number of different characteristics . |
| 2 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 3 | But although amino acids might well have become strung together to form primitive proteins , it is difficult to see how those proteins could have had any kind of coherent structure , or multiplied themselves efficiently , without help from DNA . |
| 4 | It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic . |
| 5 | " I 'm glad for you , my lord , but I expect that as you 're so rich you could have had any woman you wanted . |
| 6 | " She could have had any number of others , but no , only he would do . " |
| 7 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 8 | Anxious to deny any significant revolutionary input , they were at pains to resist any suggestion that machine breaking could have had any links with a revolutionary political movement . |
| 9 | ‘ I doubt if you 'd have had any choice , ’ said Hugh with sympathy , ‘ and certainly you have none now . ’ |
| 10 | Apart from the fact that I think most people were able to afford a far bigger range of furnishings , for instance , the number of homes that actually had a carpet in the living room , there was very small percentage of people who could afford to have any sort of carpeting except for a small square of something in their living room . |
| 11 | But it is doubtful whether they would have had any opportunity even to attempt that massive task if the years of the War had not profoundly changed public attitudes , and even softened the mind if not the heart of that great enemy of education and old boy of Harrow , Winston Churchill . |
| 12 | The police and the probation service , on the other hand , could impose sanctions , though whether they would have had any effect on Willy , who ‘ was extremely rude and behaved very badly towards all authority ’ , is open to doubt . |
| 13 | Kit wondered whether Joseph , if he had stayed around , would have had any views on Frank 's motorbike . |
| 14 | I wonder if he would have had any joy that day … only if you tied the rabbits ' legs together , I expect . |
| 15 | ‘ All three of these witnesses are , it is fair to say without intending any disrespect to them , not educated persons in the sense that they are persons who would have had any experience of judging mental ability . |
| 16 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 17 | Again , I do not feel she would have had any disposable income from her grant at college or part time earnings . |
| 18 | I do n't think planning has any influence or would wish to have any influence on that . |
| 19 | The most obvious explanation for this is that during his years away from home , he would develop a large number of relatively weak ties : in such circumstances , the in-group alternant would cease to have any function for him and so could be abandoned . |
| 20 | Once she had been tarnished by my imagination , she would cease to have any power over me . |
| 21 | Against the possibility that the acquiring member fails to extend the offer , the following remedy can be provided for : If the Acquiring Member shall fail to serve a notice or make an offer in accordance with Article … ( or , if and to the extent that the offer is accepted , the Acquiring Member shall fail to complete the purchase of any shares pursuant to the offer ) he ( and any member with whom he is acting in concert as provided in Article … ) shall cease to have any rights to vote or to dividends in respect of all the shares held by him and the Directors may where relevant refuse to register the transfer of the shares acquired by the Acquiring Member which give rise to the obligations under Article … and may require the Acquiring Member to serve a Transfer Notice in respect of all or any of the shares held by him . |
| 22 | None of these people will have had any involvement in the decision to refuse your placing request . |
| 23 | But ultimately , at that stage , the expectation is that they will say , well the bulk of the D S S monies have now been transferred to local authorities , and can safely be distributed through the normal standard spending assessment distribution , and the revenue support grant for local authorities , so at that stage you will cease to have any specific grant and one assumes that the conditions about where you spend it and how you spend it will also have been removed . |
| 24 | It is only now , decades after they were first written down , that the reading public can begin to have any sense of the extent and range of Tolkien 's mythological writings . |