Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] have [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’ |
| 2 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 3 | Hector McLean the eminent scholar in Anthropology and Celtic Literature who gave so much help to J , F. Campbell in the preparation of " Popular Tales of the West Highlands " must have had a good library and another schoolmaster at Ballygrant , Neil MacAlpine , can not have compiled his Gaelic Dictionary without one . |
| 4 | It may not be a good reason to us , but they must have had a good reason to do it , either family-wise or tension-wise , or because of life in general . |
| 5 | Hey they must have had a good meal other night . |
| 6 | The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts . |
| 7 | I 'll have had a good life , and I 'll have tried , and I 'll have made something of myself . |
| 8 | ‘ They might have had a good sleep — but we certainly have n't ! ’ |
| 9 | Beverley Lewis , a disabled woman who died in her mother 's home in Gloucester three years ago might have had a better chance if the city and not the county controlled it 's own social services . |
| 10 | The speaker feels — and do n't we all ? — that if he had been around then he might have had the good fortune to cut a greater dash in the subject than he is succeeding in doing in present circumstances . |
| 11 | I 'd like to have a good head on me . |
| 12 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 13 | Jimmy could have had a better serve . |
| 14 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 15 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 16 | Relativity may have had a better press , but it is quantum theory that we have to thank , at a practical level , for our understanding of chemistry , molecular biology and solid-state physics , as well as nuclear physics and the deeper puzzles of particle theory . |
| 17 | This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff . |
| 18 | ‘ Rather than seeing total disagreement , I would prefer to have a good compromise , ’ he said . |
| 19 | If the duty is unexcludable Elvis would appear to have a good chance of success . |
| 20 | Therefore XY Ltd would appear to have a good title to the goods one way or another . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 25 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it . |
| 29 | She could see that if the circumstances of their meeting had been happier they would have had a good drink of her mother 's secret stash of Bushmill 's and reminisced all night . |
| 30 | She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant . |