Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] had [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued that the principles he adopted had been politically motivated and should have had regard to the spending needs of each authority . |
| 2 | They must have known and must have had present to their minds all that . |
| 3 | The fact that the Rousset copyist must have had access to some manuscript source for Eckard now lost lends a certain credence to the hypothesis that the pieces on pp.go and 92 may be by him . |
| 4 | Since they were in bed the query was ambiguous , and might have had reference to what had gone before . |
| 5 | In so doing he may have had access to local traditions . |
| 6 | It is ironical to contemplate what this economy measure could have meant to the University had the test-tube fusion work succeeded : of the billions of dollars in royalties , Southampton — where Pons had got his start in the field and where Fleischmann had spent over twenty years — would have had claim to none . |
| 7 | Under normal conditions a male dominance hierarchy would have been previously established and only the dominant male would have had access to the receptive female . |
| 8 | It is unlikely that many Europeans would have had access to Aristotle 's writings , but the cuckoo 's habits were certainly well enough known during the Middle Ages for them to be mentioned by Chaucer ( in The Parlement of Foules , 1382 ) , and for the term ‘ cuckold ’ — describing a man deceived by his wife — to have passed into the English language . |
| 9 | If one were to include other categories of ‘ news ’ , such as ‘ Law , police and accidents ’ — a category excluded from the public affairs one — then the reader would have had access to substantial amounts of information about the outside world . |
| 10 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd where they would have had access to MS-DOS . |
| 11 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd , where they would have had access to MS-DOS , although Phoenix was one of the pioneers of the concept of the clean room , where no-one that has any inside knowledge of the code being emulated is allowed to come into contact with the developers of the emulation . |
| 12 | No doubt after six days of living in a trench , the dirt would have had time to grime itself in . |