Example sentences of "have had more " in BNC.

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1 The Allegri sounded a bit under-nourished against Mr Campbell 's easy delivery , particularly in the second movement , which should have had more force , though if one expects a bracing scherzo-like piece at this point , Bliss surely over-wrote it , producing instead the effect of a finale .
2 East Germany 's environmental plight may have had more publicity than that of any other East European country , but its neighbours Poland and Czechoslovakia are almost equally high in the pollution league .
3 With Dr Lange he would have had more confidence .
4 This appalled Mrs Browning , who said at once that it was God using her as an instrument and that Wilson should have had more faith .
5 ‘ He should have had more sense . ’
6 I should have had more sense .
7 The novelist , William Hale White , felt that some of the men he had known before being expelled from a Congregational theological college ‘ would have had more genuine lives if they had stood behind counters or learned some craft than they ever had in the ministry ’ .
8 Those one step up the housing ladder may have had more equity in their home to absorb falling values , but they can not move either , unless those former first-time buyers can trade up .
9 James and Martha Lamb had had nine , including the small George of the King 's silver bowl ; their descendants must have had more but the last of the line , Augustus Lamb , was a celibate clergyman .
10 A much higher proportion of Bristol women had been treated with mastectomy , suggesting that they may also have had more extensive , but undetected , disease than was recorded .
11 As for entertainment , a Welsh village on a Sunday would have had more to offer .
12 Should have had more sang froid e -bluesy pass-at-her-at-a-party-but .
13 He could n't have had more than a few hours ’ sleep .
14 In addition to all the rationally established facts I formulate in the indicative mood , there is the imperative to respect them , expressed in injunctions of varying generality imposing varying degrees of obligation , ‘ You ought to know that ’ , ‘ You should have had more sense ’ , ‘ You had better check that ’ , ‘ You were wrong to overlook that ’ , and sometimes directly in the imperative mood , ‘ Face facts ’ ‘ Know thyself ’ , ‘ Think what you 're doing ’ .
15 ‘ The supporters here should have had more success .
16 The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu .
17 The Executive Committee discussed the case at several further meetings and decided to re-examine it when Black 's solicitor should have had more time to ascertain the prospects of money compensation from the government for the injuries .
18 The women weeping over an open coffin in a Rowlandson drawing of c.1760 would have had more reason for grief had the merchandise not come up to their expectations ( Col. 6 ) .
19 They were certainly too much for a dismal Everton outfit and Chelsea should have had more goals as they eased on to the heels of the leading Premier League pack .
20 Could we have had more information on colour symbolism ?
21 First , birds performing the appropriate actions could have had more surviving offspring than those making less good nests ; consequently , in the course of time , genes necessary for the expression of the appropriate actions spread through the long-tailed tit population .
22 There certainly were opportunities , therefore , for children and young people to contribute both directly and indirectly to the household economy even before they entered the labour market , and on balance the evidence suggests that girls were likely to be more substantial contributors than boys , especially in the provision and exchange of domestic services , although boys may have had more opportunities to earn money .
23 Cardinal Suenens pointed out to him that although no one could say he had no right to produce Humanae Vitae on his own , it would have had more credibility had it been collegially prepared .
24 They would have had more chance of getting established in the late 1980s .
25 In sum , a reissue that would have had more of my blessing if offered at bargain price .
26 But by the same token , the girl should have had more sense than to walk along a road like that in the dark .
27 That this radicalism was contained may have had more to do with the strength of the State in the West , together with the size , cohesion and resilience of anti-socialist groups among the middle classes and peasantry , than with any natural tendency for the working class to become ‘ integrated ’ and its aspirations attenuated .
28 They would have provided the basis for greater parliamentary co-operation between labour representatives and liberal politicians , and a framework in which the appeal to nationalism and the efforts of Church , school and middle-class reformers might have had more effect in moderating working-class attitudes .
29 Erm I suppose got here a bit later you would have had more time to sort this lot out .
30 Although responders may be biased towards independent , articulate individuals in employment , unemployed people may have had more time to reply , and this is supported by a higher response rate among women , who had a lower employment rate .
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