Example sentences of "have have a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the basis that it had continued thus , the blade would have had a total length of about five inches . ’ |
| 11 | The plaintiff must have had a genuine freedom of choice before the defence can be successfully raised against him . |
| 12 | Again , the trade guilds probably had enough storage space in their own guild-halls for the coffin and cloaks , they might even have had a private stock of candles . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She could see that if the circumstances of their meeting had been happier they would have had a good drink of her mother 's secret stash of Bushmill 's and reminisced all night . |
| 15 | ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it . |
| 16 | There was no other way out of the building than through here , though the girls may have had a secret exit of their own , and this antechamber was guarded more fiercely by Nubenehem than ever a desert demon guarded its cave . |
| 17 | ‘ You must have had a hard month of it , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 19 | ‘ We would have had a monumental amount of stuff anyway , even if we had n't had the business . ’ |
| 20 | But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that . |
| 21 | She could n't imagine he could ever have had a single moment of nervous insecurity in his whole charmed life . |
| 22 | Moving on , erm in te you know obviously you must have had a fair amount of c you said you had a fair amount of contact with erm tenants in the flats . |
| 23 | Just like to , we should have had a little bit of discussion there but we 're moving quickly . |
| 24 | There is no reason to think that people in the past may not have had a profound understanding of God , an understanding which will illuminate one 's own . |
| 25 | And , if he had moved any farther down the course , would he still have had a clear view of Captain Brown waving his flag to signal a false start ? |
| 26 | you 'd have to have a huge sort of bureaucratic structure |