Example sentences of "[modal v] have have [adj] " in BNC.

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1 What they should 've done , instead of having all them machines on that moors they should 've had damn bugger stripped to waist digging it out .
2 The patient should have had central chest pain in the classic distribution for at least 15 minutes .
3 I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party .
4 It was incredible , he continued , that a king who had established the Presbyterian religion in Scotland and was willing to establish the Catholic religion in Ireland should have had insurmountable scruples about the ecclesiastical constitution of England .
5 The application of this incorrect test may have materially affected the judge 's decision , since he may well have considered that the children 's welfare overrode the mother 's wishes and feelings , a matter to which he should have had particular regard under section 10(9) ( d ) ( ii ) .
6 In view of Vane 's other commitments , Hutchinson must have had practical charge of parliamentarian naval finance , although it would seem that he was only paid a salary out of the treasurer 's profits .
7 They must have had long journies , so I expect they 're having a lie in , I know I would .
8 Typical trilobites of several kinds are present in the earliest Cambrian rocks ; they must have had late Precambrian ancestors , but of these nothing is known .
9 St. Peter 's must have had strong affinity with the nearby Castle .
10 So the smaller children in the crowd must have had awful problems .
11 If ‘ mentioned-in-the-text ’ is taken as the basis for selection of discourse subjects , it should be noted that the analyst is , in fact , attempting to reconstitute the presupposition pool which the participants must have had prior to the discourse fragment being analysed .
12 It must have had substantial embankments leading to it , for the nearby ground level is that of the line .
13 Here , if anywhere , one would think we must have had continuous sedimentation .
14 And did they , they must have had lean times if they sat around and waited for a boat , one did n't come in some days may be .
15 The other little drawer contained a jumble of trinkets and keepsakes ; some , like the pearl drop on a gold chain , were valuable ; others , like a battered old Mickey Mouse pencil-sharpener , must have had sentimental value .
16 Its shallow water formations include grainstones which must have had high primary porosity and permeability , and the sequence is also expected to contain dolomites .
17 Evolutionary innovations such as nerve tracts , seriation , mesoderm , spacious body cavities and circulatory systems , all implied by the fossils already available , must have had profound phylogenetic consequences .
18 By 1525 in the latter shire a quarter of the personal estate in a sample of forty villages was owned by 4 per cent of the rural population , excluding the squires — clearly there were some members of the peasantry who must have had sufficient wealth to dominate their fellows ( 81 , pp.26–7 ; 83 , pp.17 , 142 ) .
19 Dignam must have had unusual stamina .
20 There remained the peculiar business of the poetry book , which he must have had ready to puzzle me .
21 Well strangely enough I think we 'll have to have double rooms .
22 No we have n't they 'll have to have yellow noses then
23 ‘ He 'll have to have residential care , ’ said Nina .
24 ‘ But the 1861 to 1865 papers are kept under lock and key , ’ warned the owner , inferring that those that I freely but reverently leafed through might have to have similar protection one day .
25 She might have had other irons in the fire as well .
26 Equally problematic is the validity of Sidonius 's very cultured presentation of the barbarian courts of Theodoric II , Euric and Chilperic I. Here , the author might have had political reasons to present the barbarians in as positive a light as possible .
27 Responses to a questionnaire sent to NHS authorities in March 1988 had shown that only 8 per cent of employers requires nurses and health visitors to undertake re-entry programmes before employment , even though individuals might have had substantial breaks in service .
28 For all I know , Léon Cohn-Casson might have had substantial reasons for believing in his invulnerability .
29 Of course , he might have had dental work done abroad . "
30 The western rising was prompted largely by religious conservatism , although an attempt to limit the number of servants a gentleman might have had social overtones ( 73 , p.61 , 69 , 136 , 142–4 ) .
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