Example sentences of "[vb mod] have have [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bowe believes Lewis should have had a harder warm-up than Dixon , who was outweighed by nearly two stone and was knocked down twice in a ten-rounder five weeks ago . |
| 2 | Judith Cook should have had an easier job in her pamphlet against water privatisation , for it 's British people themselves , in the near future , who will suffer . |
| 3 | he more or less sort of said well I 'll have to have a cheaper car . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The painting , which represented the god of wine , Dionysos , might have had a happier fate had Mummius agreed to the bid of 100 talents made for it after the sack by King Attalus of Pergamum , but Mummius was intent on taking his booty to Rome . |
| 6 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
| 7 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 8 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 9 | Even the more sophisticated tracts , which would have been beyond the comprehension of those on the margins of literacy and were unsuitable for reading aloud , could have had a wider impact than their style might suggest , since their purpose was to furnish people who could read them with arguments which would enable them to go away and convince others of the merits of their party 's cause . |
| 10 | Jimmy could have had a better serve . |
| 11 | 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 ! " |
| 12 | The boy , brought up in poverty and amid the cruelty of London 's East End in the nineties , could have had no greater reward . |
| 13 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Her publications list appears to consist of only two papers , but she may have had a greater influence than this suggests ( J. White , personal communication ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 22 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The government , at no additional cost to the Exchequer , would have had a greater impact on the individual 's welfare . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
| 29 | Since the last war , however , strains of the gonococcus which produce fewer symptoms will have had a greater chance of being passed on before treatment could be instituted . |
| 30 | It is a tribute to the awe in which Indirect Rule was held in the 1920s that their pretensions were taken seriously : few deliberative bodies in history can have had a higher regard for themselves as repositories of political wisdom than did the Conference of Residents . |