Example sentences of "may have had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their Fig. 2 , both the warmer and colder climates considered may have had tropical temperatures approximately the same as the current climate . |
| 2 | Their spouses may not have been able to save much during their lives ; they may have had low-paid jobs . |
| 3 | One or more of these stages may have had greater impact in some countries than others , creating separate democratic inheritances onto which the extension of the franchise was superimposed . |
| 4 | She may have had other reasons . |
| 5 | It is also possible that the animals may have had other significance . |
| 6 | These were patients who either had previously or were being considered for erm intravascular chemotherapy , or even for cystectomy , they were not the patients who may have had one or two recurrences noted at check cystoscopy . |
| 7 | The person who prescribed the medicine may have had homoeopathic experience but was not using homoeopathy in this case . |
| 8 | Early life on Earth may have had many false starts — as many as ten — with each based on a different biochemistry . |
| 9 | Reza Shah acknowledged eleven children thought he may have had many more . |
| 10 | Given the complexities of Merovingian family politics , Chlothar 's denial of paternity is not conclusive : he may have had good reason to disassociate himself from Gundovald 's mother . |
| 11 | A 45-FOOT dinosaur which lived 200 million years ago may have had eight hearts , say scientists writing in the medical journal Lancet . |
| 12 | It has been claimed that Mr Gooderham may have had financial problems . |
| 13 | For one thing , any hopes my father may have had that to meet the General in person would arouse a sense of respect or sympathy to leaven his feelings against him proved without foundation . |
| 14 | Her tradition of looking at landscape was deeply Wordsworthian , whatever intimations she may have had that Wordsworth 's language was for his time and place only . |
| 15 | Watkins L.J. , in Berry ( No. 2 ) may have had such dicta in mind when he stated , |
| 16 | His interest in Edmund Ironside and Edward the Martyr is thus the first of several indications that attitudes to religion in his reign may have had distinct political overtones . |
| 17 | This patient may have had asymptomatic M tuberculosis infection in this classic anatomical site , as is well recognised in patients with chronic bronchitis , in whom it may be unmasked by treatment with steroids . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A HARLEY Street doctor jailed for seven years for a series of sex attacks on women visiting his surgery may have had 100 victims . |
| 20 | Some teachers may specialize in certain sports , while others may have had experience of a particular instrument , such as the flute or violin , and therefore may have had similar problems as yourself . |
| 21 | Said a daily newspaper : ‘ The Beatles and the Stones may have had similar scenes but even they could never have induced bullet-headed toughies with flat noses and bovver boots to wear stick-on gold stars round their eyes . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | The truth is that the government may have had little choice but to move against the PAC . |
| 24 | However , underwriting in Holland , where NCM enjoy 95 per cent of the market , may be different from the UK , and therefore NCM may have had little experience in working in a competitive market . |
| 25 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 26 | H pylori is associated with gastritis and peptic ulcer and possibly with non-ulcer dyspepsia , so both patients may have had chronic infection . |
| 27 | The vogue of the Klan lasted for a relatively short time , but at its height , it may have had five million members . |
| 28 | A report on the unsatisfactory nature of the examinations at the Edinburgh School a little later suggests that Coleman may have had much right on his side . |
| 29 | A great many sufferers from addictive disease of any kind have chronic pain in the back and may have had extensive medical and other treatment including surgery . |
| 30 | It will be argued that such factors may have had considerable influence on what are widely believed to have been exclusively ‘ political ’ decisions . |