Example sentences of "would have had a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
2 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
3 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
4 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
5 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
6 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
7 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
8 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
9 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
10 | The government , at no additional cost to the Exchequer , would have had a greater impact on the individual 's welfare . |
11 | As at today 's date , she was at the age of twenty , as she i , as at today 's date she , at the age of twenty four , would have had a further working life of thirty six years . |
12 | True , they would have had a stronger showing had not their former prime minister , Lothar de Maizière , stepped down before the election amid charges ( which he denies , and which an inquiry looks set to discuss ) that he used to work for the former East German secret police . |
13 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |