Example sentences of "have have a [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’
2 If whatever happened to Summerchild had n't happened , I think , once again , then … then Timmy and I might have had a rather better quality of life .
3 You might have had a slightly harder time finding the money in 1965 than in 1964 , though .
4 A number of the letters relate to diplomatic missions between Austrasia and Byzantium , but the collection can not have had a purely political purpose .
5 We could have had a perfectly civilised meeting , and not this — ’
6 I could not have had a better send off , and I realized that the public battles had played only a marginal part in it .
7 I think she must have had a really bad stroke .
8 Things would n't have kept what you would have had a totally different kind of eating habits ?
9 Quite intuitively , he told me : ‘ Had he stuck to what he originally put into the part , he would probably have had a totally different career over the next twenty years or so .
10 I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’
11 Paul Allen 's 21st-minute winner was the only entry on my score card , but the chaps from the WBC keeping tabs on Nigel Benn and Nicky Piper down the road at Ally Pally would have had a much busier afternoon .
12 He would have had a much more tranquil retirement , Helen thought , in some already brutalised corner of the country .
13 With your qualifications you could have had a much better job , a better salary .
14 If this reading of Ali is correct , it would seem that simply in terms of his daily allowance the kasabat kadi was better off financially at the beginning of his career than the new muderris ; but in any case , given the fees the kadi could expect to receive , he must have had a considerably greater income .
15 They also fully deserved the three sets they earned in the first three rubbers and with a little bit of luck would have had a least three more .
16 It follows that recent rises in unemployment may have had a relatively greater impact on property-owning white-collar workers than was the case in the early 1980s ; moreover , the latter will also be more highly geared than average .
17 But if MAFF 's original assessment for the UK 's LFA had been based on an objective survey rather than merely regurgitating the ‘ hill line ’ drawn up under the 1946 Hill Farming Act , it would have had a more reliable basis to which the results of its Hills and Uplands land classification could have been added to determine some meaningful handicap zones .
18 It may have had a more sinister purpose later , as it is now known as The Whipping Stone .
19 If it had been Rime Giants following us we would have had a more difficult time of it ; they enjoy such conditions .
20 Uderzo says they preferred not to film in America : ‘ They would have had a very different idea of how to approach the jokes .
21 If only Kinnock had been able to show us this side of himself when he was still Leader of the Labour Party , the election might have had a very different result .
22 Senior Tories believe the MP for Carshalton and Wallington must have had a very pressing reason to leave after staging such an unexpected comeback .
23 Miss Taylor , you must have had a very eventful life — if you could choose to live a part of that life again , which decade would you choose ?
24 Perhaps it was never roofed : if so , it must have had a very high corbelled vault , either in stone or in mudbrick .
25 However , although the polenier event is associated with cooling of the ocean , it may not have had a very large impact on the carbon dioxide balance .
26 From its size , the knife must have had a very specific use and may even have been a surgical instrument .
27 I suppose I was too young and naïve to realise that you must have had a very active sex life before you met me .
28 Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved .
29 But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time .
30 On the other hand , you will have gathered already that we are going to talk about Greater York , so I think there may be some distinct benefit and merit in you being he here to listen to that , er particular part of the topic , now the , I hope in fact that we can deal with the remainder of H One , because it it does lead quite logically into the next issue which we want to talk about , which is the new settlement in the Greater York area , er and I hope that we can get through this item by our morning break , that but whenever we do conclude on H One we will have to have a slightly longer break just to enable the seating arrangements to be sorted out properly for all participants who are involved in the discussion on the new settlement .
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