Example sentences of "have had [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singapore has had better luck than Hong Kong at diversifying its export markets ; but America is still a big one , and America is in recession . |
| 2 | But they will take a lot of convincing that any county has had better value from their ‘ foreign ’ recruit this season than they had out of Dean Jones before his early departure to join the Australian party to tour Sri Lanka . |
| 3 | Any problems she has encountered have not been because of her gender , but because she has had older people working for her . |
| 4 | Without other support programmes to improve dietary and general health and hygienic conditions , capsule distribution has had poorer results than anticipated in controlling xerophthalmia . |
| 5 | My mother has had longer to practise being a mother and I think she has perfected the art . |
| 6 | The uncomfortable feeling she 'd had earlier on had come back again and sat like a solid lead ball in her chest . |
| 7 | The cause had to be lack of food , the mints I 'd had earlier had obviously worn off , but , soft-hearted fool that I am , I was trying to wait so that me and the invalid could sit and break bread together . |
| 8 | I enjoyed the whole of the Chuck Berry interview — I only wish we 'd had longer . |
| 9 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 10 | A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday . |
| 11 | One would have had greater confidence if the selection were from a longer list nominated by other bodies unconnected with the government of the day . |
| 12 | One or more of these stages may have had greater impact in some countries than others , creating separate democratic inheritances onto which the extension of the franchise was superimposed . |
| 13 | They should have had greater confidence in their power to heal . |
| 14 | Even though Christmas in hospital was a fun-filled day , no one could have had better news than Sarah Collyer . |
| 15 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
| 16 | They were desert-dwellers , so Moses could scarcely have had better preparation for the wilderness journeys with Israel than these years of nomadic life . |
| 17 | It is open to debate whether or not all the designs traditionally ascribed to Persia are in fact Persian in origin , and there is some evidence to suggest that a number may have had earlier links with Anatolia , India or Central Asia . |
| 18 | And I was delighted to have the neighbourhood laid out for me in the way a child sees its domain , and to earn a little money and receive from Mme Bluot the excellent unsold cakes and breads she would otherwise have had Didier feed to the ducks . |
| 19 | He poured the wine and said , ‘ It should have had longer … ’ |
| 20 | Townsend noted a preconceived association between retirement , ill health and death within the wider community which may have had older cultural roots . |
| 21 | Although these patients may have had smaller surgical procedures performed , they will require as much , or more , care at home because they are discharged earlier . |
| 22 | Here he must have had further contact with Scott , who became Surveyor to the Fabric of the Abbey in 1846 , particularly in connection with the Broad Sanctuary houses , which Scott built on the Abbey 's land between 1852 and 1854 . |
| 23 | Indeed in the absence of the Cold War the loan — assuming its final approval by Congress — might well have had further damaging effects upon Anglo-American relations . |
| 24 | Melissa flushed vivid puce , threw him a look that would have had weaker men quailing , and stormed off . |
| 25 | The immediate suspects of the murder were a local man and his son ; but both these men could not have had stronger alibis , for the father was in hospital after having an operation on his hip bone , while his son had three days previously been called into the Forces . |
| 26 | But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house . |
| 27 | They had had longer to become philosophical . |
| 28 | His diffidence with secondary art teachers , he intimated , was because he believed that these folk had had longer formal training and more paper qualifications than himself . |
| 29 | We 've had better nights down the Rock Garden . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've had better tarts , ’ he said , and , walking to the door as she struggled into a sitting position , trying to restore her ruined self , for at some time she must leave the room and face her shattered world , he flung her his final insult . |