Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother-child separation at four months of age may not be too disturbing , as the child will not yet have formed a lasting selective attachment to her . |
| 2 | Badham ( 1981 ) has suggested that the basinal Lower Silurian shales to the west of the carbonate shelf facies could have formed a suitable depositional environment for mineralisation of the SEDEX style . |
| 3 | However , we would have provoked a huge political fracas and affected some of the poorest in the land . |
| 4 | Protests like these may have won a first round victory for the hospital , but campaigners say the fight continues . |
| 5 | Are there no other types of thing for which Moore might have claimed a similar high value in isolation ? |
| 6 | ‘ I sssuppose , ’ lisped Simon Swan , ‘ that we shall have to find a new Official Dog Chaser . |
| 7 | He commented that if the process was to have practical importance ‘ we would have to find a different catalysing particle which has properties similar to the muon but has a lifetime of at least ten or twenty minutes . ’ |
| 8 | Had there been a genuine sense of Arabism during the post-war period , Aziz went on , then the Gulf States would not only have cancelled Iraq 's debts , but would also have organized a comprehensive Iraqi reconstruction plan . |
| 9 | First he would have pushed a strong diversionary force at Charleroi , then , when the allies moved to defend Brussels from the south , he would have launched the real attack to the west . |
| 10 | ‘ Some idiot might have seen a well-dressed elderly gent near the railway line and then you could have been questioned . ’ |
| 11 | He would also like to see plea bargaining introduced , although he says he would not have accepted a reduced criminal plea . |
| 12 | A FINE AIRCRAFT , which would have made a good strategic bomber . |
| 13 | He wondered if he 'd have made a good interior designer . |
| 14 | He was always so quick witted and courageous was John that I always thought he would have made a good secret agent — a James Bond kind of figure . |
| 15 | His language would have made a Chief Petty Officer blush … |
| 16 | He would have made a great dramatic actor . |
| 17 | It would have made a compact little home except it was painted dark brown like the corridors . |
| 18 | The segments of lemon embedded in clear apple jelly must have made a ravishing little dessert dish : |
| 19 | Canals may have performed a general price-lowering function in , to use Professor Mathias 's phrase , " cracking open " local monopolies , but it should not be forgotten that they were in themselves mono-polies , even though canal companies hardly ever operated carrier services and confined themselves to earning from tolls . |
| 20 | The 1931 result , of course , left a great deal of room for recoil , but even so , the average of these results , if reflected in a general election , would have produced a substantial Labour majority in the House of Commons . |
| 21 | However , insufficient height was available to install windows copying the attenuated shape of the original ‘ lancets ’ and the unquestioning reproduction of the arch form in the new windows would have produced a weaker visual result than the treatment which was adopted — the insertion of new tripartite lights capped by a simple square-headed profile ( Plates 18 and 19 ) . |
| 22 | Instead of a free subscription to an obscure journal ( which came with the registration fee ) many listeners would have preferred a decent abstract list — not to mention fewer unimaginative and time-worn presentations . |
| 23 | It is no secret that many business leaders would have preferred a new assertive Chancellor . |
| 24 | King Hussein would have preferred a separate Palestinian delegation , he said , but " we have no objection to providing an umbrella for our Palestinian brethren " . |
| 25 | She would have preferred a romantic candlelit dinner for two , but even more , she wanted Josh to see David as one of life 's pluses and not as an interloper . |
| 26 | He would have preferred a special health-service pay factor , but had to settle for an above-average offer to the nurses , who most certainly were the priority group , having fallen badly behind over the previous ten years . |
| 27 | ‘ Richard Cawston 's film could not have had a better critical reception if it had been the combined work of Eisenstein , Hitchcock and Fellini , ’ wrote the critic in the Evening Standard . |
| 28 | football may have had a rough old week … but we 've got some celebrating to do now … |
| 29 | That meant that they must have had a good sexual relationship too . |
| 30 | 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 . |