Example sentences of "[modal v] have have the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is remarkable , when you think of what most of us philosophers are like , that he should have had the sheer ability and integrity to elicit such a response from people of such political eminence . |
| 2 | Enoch Powell later cited this indication of my position as a kind of pledge from which , when events turned out as they did , I should have had the whole Cabinet 's leave formally to withdraw . |
| 3 | He should have had the same chance as them , Church or no Church . ’ |
| 4 | Ideally , all patients should have had the same number of follow up visits . |
| 5 | Even mother must have had the odd twinge , incredible as it seems . |
| 6 | Helen , shuffling through them , remembered Louise in the churchyard : even mother must have had the odd twinge … |
| 7 | He must have had the same kind of feelings as my father had at the prospect of being sent to Fontanellato . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He might have had the last word , but he had n't really forgiven her for her temerity in trying to put him down . |
| 10 | Although most of the adjustments Valuev proposed to the statutes of emancipation appeared to favour the gentry at the expense of the peasantry , one of them , the abolition of the peasant commune , might have had the opposite effect , and none of them was designed to turn the clock back . |
| 11 | She could 've had the same thing free on the National Health ! |
| 12 | Yesterday Capt Roy Beaumont , Loganair 's operations director , said that although the plane involved was an ATP , the down draught could have had the same effect on any aircraft coming in to land . |
| 13 | There 's an interesting historical paradox in the impact of AIDS on the gay community because without the existence of an international gay community I do n't think AIDS as a disease could have had the rapid impact it 's had on gay men . |
| 14 | Er indeed the directive was promulgated as the minister said but I do n't think it was a bolt out of the blue , it was of course something that we around for some considerable time before that and of course that excuse hardly applies to the delay in establishing the European parliamentary constituency committees , er as the minister er will know very well , it was merely a matter of seven weeks , er the excuse being that had they had another seven weeks they could have had the public inquiry stage , the reality of course was that there was plenty of time to do this in good time and in good order and without the confusion that exists now er around the candidatures and the boundaries of the existing European boundaries . |
| 15 | Although few in the audience could have had the slightest idea of what the songs were about , their power to move was undiminished by the language barrier ; such was their skill in vocal expression that the audience could tell which of the songs were mildly comic . |
| 16 | Because if they went back they 'd have to have the electric chair and they do n't want the electric chair or the , cos that 's what they think cos they 've done so much . |
| 17 | They may have had the unsettling experience of living in three different households — the original family , an interim family with only one parent — and the newly-formed stepfamily . |
| 18 | But there again , he never sent her to the really big houses because , as he said , if there was anything going , the servants would have had the first pick . |
| 19 | No archbishop but Fisher would have had the administrative ability or the tenacity to achieve the end . |
| 20 | We got here in the nick of time or we would have had the rotten table otherwise . |
| 21 | I would n't call those highly inventive moves mere dancing ; they bordered on an act that would have had the best strip-tease artists in the country seething with jealousy . |
| 22 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 23 | Had I been asked to imagine myself as I would have looked during that time , you can be sure that I would have had the beautiful gown , the ruffled frill and the bejewelled fingers of a lady . |
| 24 | I would have been its curator , and would have had the top floor to myself ’ . |
| 25 | The women in the ranks were generally accustomed to hard manual labour with scythes and ploughs and would have had the physical strength and tenacity to wield weapons . |
| 26 | All the same , I doubt very much that when I was in a comparable situation I would have had the same faith and determination that Tom did . |
| 27 | ‘ A little thing could have set him on his way any time these past three years , and it would have had the same ending . ’ |
| 28 | Many set the odds on Rank achieving his ambitions very low indeed , seemingly believing that , as Eric Ambler was later to remark , ‘ a policy of selling British cars to America with their steering wheels on the right would have had the same chance of success . ’ |
| 29 | And major social reforms — the establishment of free trade unions or the redistribution of noble land — would have had the same effect . |
| 30 | Psalm 48.12–13 bears witness to a similar procession round the walls of Jerusalem , though in the case of Jericho it would have had the particular significance of a celebration of God 's gift of the Land and conquest achieved with his might . |