Example sentences of "may [verb] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Woods ' speech also introduced an important new argument which may have had some considerable effect on Irish voters . |
| 2 | In addition , whether or not one had attended a catholic school may have had little effect on sexual values or mass attendance but it did increase catholic activism and racial tolerance ( Greeley , McCready , and McCourt 1976 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I find it a little horrifying to think that some Commercial pilots flying large numbers of passengers may have had very little exposure to reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 5 | You know the way it is — someone dies whose example was meaningful to you , who was significant in your mind 's evolution , though you may have had only the most fleeting personal acquaintance with them . |
| 6 | From the lists I made , I came to feel that European culture in the last millennium may have had some 100 real heroes , the mastersingers of Europe , of which I have tried to identify half . |
| 7 | He suggested instead that perhaps one of the two white men to see her alive last may have had something to do with her death . |
| 8 | The number of sympathisers able to support IRA operations on the Continent is smaller than in Northern Ireland , so the recruitment of a few informers may have had a disproportionate effect . |
| 9 | The severity may have had a cause hidden from the young Ramsey . |
| 10 | Many such heavy timber beams supporting joists of the first floor were inserted into existing buildings in such a way that their ends may have had an inadequate bearing on to slender timber ‘ storey posts ’ installed adjacent to the party walls . |
| 11 | For example , in his attempt to lead a new life , he attributes any success he may have had in conquering lust , anger or pride to God 's grace , a very specifically Christian idea ; and this is a full fifteen months before his conversion to Christianity . |
| 12 | Since the prints of Henry VIII were consigned to the flames at Ealing Studios , it 's not possible to assess what merits Barker 's production may have had , but some idea of the uncinematic monstrosity that was produced is suggested by a contemporary production of Richard III , which consists of 17 scenes played out from the stage to a static camera , interrupted by lengthy titles containing brief pieces of dialogue . |
| 13 | Such enthusiasm may have had as much to do with the excited nationalism of wartime , as any substantial appreciation of these films ' merits , and it should not be supposed that British filmmakers had universally gone from being dull and unimaginative to become masters of the cinematic art . |
| 14 | But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history . |
| 15 | This week 's extension of the suspension has lead to a further letter to unit trust holders.But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history . |
| 16 | The investors ' watchdog may have had its day Notebook . |
| 17 | It has been claimed that Mr Gooderham may have had financial problems . |
| 18 | East Germany 's environmental plight may have had more publicity than that of any other East European country , but its neighbours Poland and Czechoslovakia are almost equally high in the pollution league . |
| 19 | The seventh five-year plan just ended may have had its ups and downs , producing high growth in the first half of the plan 's period , followed by inflation and then austerity in the second half , but overall it was a success : the economy grew by 7.5% a year , incomes for city-dwellers almost doubled and last year 's grain harvest was the biggest ever . |
| 20 | The spelling , on the other hand , may have had something to do with the poet Dylan Thomas , then an intensely romantic and dissolute figure . |
| 21 | The letter suggests the two may have had an affair . |
| 22 | It is tempting to believe that in this story Poe may have had in mind a case of premature burial , in which the principal figure was the mother of his patron , John L. O'Sullivan . |
| 23 | He is generally unmarried , even though he may have had a shady past which included associating with women . |
| 24 | Recently you may have had the misfortune to sit through John Hughes ' latest slice of suburban comedy , Uncle Buck . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I infer from that he may have had reasons other than professional ones for taking on the employment you offered him . |
| 27 | Constantine 's mother may have had Christian sympathies . |
| 28 | Whatever larger and higher purposes the trip may have had , they were subsumed in circus . |
| 29 | Unfortunately for me , but fortunately for the reader ( who may have had enough of churches ) , it was closed . |
| 30 | But this seems a unique case ; and while other towns may have had their equivalents of Ajdabiya 's tinned milk lawsuit , most places seemed to practice autonomy rather than to assert it . |