Example sentences of "had [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the scousers have had the better results , Saturdays was no big deal … 2–0 at home to 10 men Sheff Wed who were totally impotent up front . |
| 2 | But you see the other thing , the other thing that er that 's worth , when you 've had the smaller dos , you know |
| 3 | And here , thought Dalgliesh , he had had the larger vestry to himself . |
| 4 | Modern scholars who have tried to imitate Josephus in his search for references to Jews in pre-Alexandrian Greek literature have had no better luck . |
| 5 | The boy , brought up in poverty and amid the cruelty of London 's East End in the nineties , could have had no greater reward . |
| 6 | He recovered promptly and has had no further problems 30 months after transplantation . |
| 7 | The patient has had no further problems from perineal disease during the subsequent 17 months to date . |
| 8 | She has had no further problems and is recovering from her operation well . |
| 9 | The company has had no further involvement in the project since September 1989 . ’ |
| 10 | The excellent , practical hunter who has had no further lessons in hunting-wizardry than his introductory ones as a teenager is said to know little about hunting . |
| 11 | Twelve patients have had no further admissions with bleeding after TIPSS . |
| 12 | ALBSU has had a wider brief to facilitate literacy and numeracy among the native and non- native speakers of English . |
| 13 | The SDA has had a wider set of powers than those readily available to UDCs in England , but it has used them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching . |
| 16 | Jimmy could have had a better serve . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’ |
| 18 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 19 | No , I 've had a better idea ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 25 | In your case you could n't have had a better officer , in my view , to handle that situation . |
| 26 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 27 | I 've never had a better incentive to hurry home . |
| 28 | The club have never had a better side . |
| 29 | Clearly each player so honoured brings his own style and personality to the job and we could n't have had a better example than from David Sole . |
| 30 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |