Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] [verb] have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Rolf Ekeus , the head of the joint UN and IAEA special commission on Iraq [ see pp. 38165 ; 38211 ; 38451 ] , maintained , following a visit to the country on Oct. 4-6 , that Iraq " has had … and may continue to have a nuclear weapons development programme " .
2 He had a distinctive hooked gold earring in his left ear , wore a blue denim jacket and jeans and may have had a chipped front tooth .
3 One , in the grounds of Tullie House Museum just outside the fort gate , was 12.2m ( 40 ft ) by at least 67 m ( 219 ft ) , with a substantial plank floor over a solid foundation , and may have had a military function ; attempts have also been made to interpret it as the base for a rampart surrounding an annexe to the fort .
4 One of them was two metres long and must have had a devastating effect on the plants as it browsed its way through the wet green bogs .
5 She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant .
6 We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) .
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