Example sentences of "have had [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 They should have had greater confidence in their power to heal .
6 Even though Christmas in hospital was a fun-filled day , no one could have had better news than Sarah Collyer .
7 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 .
8 They were desert-dwellers , so Moses could scarcely have had better preparation for the wilderness journeys with Israel than these years of nomadic life .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 He poured the wine and said , ‘ It should have had longer … ’
12 Townsend noted a preconceived association between retirement , ill health and death within the wider community which may have had older cultural roots .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Melissa flushed vivid puce , threw him a look that would have had weaker men quailing , and stormed off .
17 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 .
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