Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question . |
| 2 | Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |
| 5 | I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching . |
| 6 | Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ? |
| 7 | Brian Horton says they could not have had a better match . |
| 8 | The dazed expression had almost left her face and I wondered if she might not have had a slight stroke when Celia abandoned her , and was now recovering . |
| 9 | I hope you will not have had a fruitless journey , Mrs er — ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They both might be fit for Saturday and , even though they will not have had a reserve team match , they could well come straight back into the squad , ’ he added . |
| 11 | Thus , prices on Simex may not have had a measurable effect on the index . |
| 12 | However , computer simulations using state-of-the-art general atmospheric circulation models undertaken in Britain , Canada , Germany and the United States all suggest the fires will have added only 2–5 per cent to world emissions of carbon dioxide in 1991 and that this increase will not have had a significant influence on world climate change . |
| 13 | She may or may not have had a longstanding paranoid personality ; that 's hard for relatives to cope with , but not necessarily pathological . ’ |
| 14 | His mother should not have had a full ( or even half-full ) mug or one with a handle . |
| 15 | Consequently , other market members ( and their customers ) may not have had a proper opportunity to participate in the trade . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If this had happened the rogue could not have conferred title upon the innocent purchaser ( unless under some other exception to the nemo dat principle ) for the rogue would no longer have had a voidable title . |
| 18 | Instead , structured gestural sequences , or syntagmata as MacNeill calls them , might already have had a rudimentary grammar before they were overlaid by speech . |
| 19 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 20 | Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself . |
| 21 | That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months . |
| 22 | Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme . |
| 23 | He appears not to have had a ready answer to this question ! |
| 24 | It started with a piece of foolishness that could have got me into a deal of trouble had I not have had a wise check in time from the inspector . |
| 25 | Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination , you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt . |
| 26 | She could n't imagine he could ever have had a single moment of nervous insecurity in his whole charmed life . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | The brick and stone-built cone is sixty feet high , and was saved from demolition in 1962 by excavations which showed its importance as an industrial monument , this area of Yorkshire once having had a thriving glass industry . |
| 29 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |
| 30 | The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh also has had a long involvement with the cultivation and development of plants with medicinal properties and we have our own Scottish traditions of herbal cures for a long list of ailments . |