Example sentences of "have have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any rise in aggregate demand which was rationally anticipated would have had no such effect — it would merely have led to a rise in prices . |
| 2 | She would have had no such hopes in the old days , when Bill took pleasure in flouting normal expectations , seemed driven to flare up , to " create " as Mrs Orton might put it . |
| 3 | The boy , brought up in poverty and amid the cruelty of London 's East End in the nineties , could have had no greater reward . |
| 4 | Deprived — fortunately as it turned out , for otherwise he would have had no spare time at all — of the pleasures of the rugby field , he played a little squash and tennis ( developing his ‘ cannonball serve : that 's all you need , see : they never get it back ’ ) and ‘ chatting up ’ . |
| 5 | Using the cleanest virus in the world , least changed by virtue of its isolation in extreme conditions , against which the human cell would have had no natural experience , they had inserted the Mahon virus into the molecular structure of the human gamete . |
| 6 | She may be surprised , disconcerted ; she may even have had no conscious intention of getting involved with this particular man . |
| 7 | Had he had the same nightmare at any other time , it might have had no particular meaning to him at all . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , undoubtedly the night air would have had a sobering effect , especially as the walk was some 2¾ miles long . |
| 10 | These intra-uterine devices would have had a contraceptive effect and were relied on by some women for that purpose . |
| 11 | I hope you will not have had a fruitless journey , Mrs er — ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Cologne may have had a poor start to the season , but they are typically disciplined like all German sides and will play as they are told to play by their coach . |
| 13 | Dinosaurs may have had a four-chambered heart ; if so they were probably warm-blooded . |
| 14 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Beverley Lewis , a disabled woman who died in her mother 's home in Gloucester three years ago might have had a better chance if the city and not the county controlled it 's own social services . |
| 21 | I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching . |
| 22 | Jimmy could have had a better serve . |
| 23 | In your case you could n't have had a better officer , in my view , to handle that situation . |
| 24 | Relativity may have had a better press , but it is quantum theory that we have to thank , at a practical level , for our understanding of chemistry , molecular biology and solid-state physics , as well as nuclear physics and the deeper puzzles of particle theory . |
| 25 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 26 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 27 | Clearly each player so honoured brings his own style and personality to the job and we could n't have had a better example than from David Sole . |
| 28 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 29 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |
| 30 | Brian Horton says they could not have had a better match . |