Example sentences of "may have had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jean-Claude may have had artistic integrity on his side but he did not have a legal leg to stand on . |
| 32 | Constantine 's mother may have had Christian sympathies . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Furthermore , he was informed that the water may have had medicinal properties . |
| 35 | The Woods ' speech also introduced an important new argument which may have had some considerable effect on Irish voters . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | She may have had some outdoor work as well , such as feeding poultry . |
| 38 | The human suffering which results from an accident can be severe and can result in some form of life-long disablement or disfigurement for the victim , not forgetting the stress and guilt which is borne by the person who may have had some responsibility for the accident occurring . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 41 | These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use . |
| 42 | Unhappily , habits which may have had some virtue in times of scarcity became vices in times of relative abundance . |
| 43 | Both works were to be translated from Latin into the vernacular languages in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; both were known in military circles ; and both may have had some influence on the formation of changing attitudes to leadership . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | I was hoping you may have had some ideas about that . ’ |
| 46 | Jenner wondered if the unanaesthetised de-clawing may have had some effect on this , and he offered the theory that an alternative source of pain might cause a distraction from the tail-crushing effects of caudate stimulation . |
| 47 | Prior Robert may have had some qualms concerning his own worthiness , though that was a weakness to which he seldom succumbed . |
| 48 | Nowhere so far in my limited knowledge of the pair has evidence of shorthand materialised — ; although at law he may have had some awareness of the skill . |
| 49 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 50 | Essentially viceroy of the newly conquered lands , his position suggests the confidence which Edward placed in him ; and he may have had some influence , as his Savoyard friends and kinsmen certainly did , on the design of the castles by which Wales was to be held down . |
| 51 | They may have had some children . |
| 52 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
| 53 | Alex may have had some response ready , but he got no chance to voice it , as Bobby Anscombe turned his fury on Paul Lexington . |
| 54 | All of a sudden our theories looked as though they may have had some foundation . |
| 55 | Wallia may have had some say in the grant made to his people . |
| 56 | They included weapons , jewellery , and objects which may have had some symbolic significance , whether religious or royal . |
| 57 | The propaganda may have had some success ; it was , nevertheless , necessary . |
| 58 | This system worked very slowly and made secrecy virtually impossible : it has been calculated that in all some 2,000 people may have had some influence , direct or indirect , on the functioning of this cumbersome machinery . |
| 59 | Unfortunately for me , but fortunately for the reader ( who may have had enough of churches ) , it was closed . |
| 60 | Secondly , the activation of the renin-angiotensin system ( the physiological consequence of sodium depletion ) may have had opposite intrarenal effects to those of angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibition , and therefore microalbuminuria was not reduced , even though blood pressure was reduced by hydrochlorothiazide treatment . |