Example sentences of "be [verb] have had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gothic , a more formidable opponent , might have been expected to have had a greater impact on the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 2 | Newspapers in North America suffered in the recession , but paid-for regional papers in the UK are said to have had a good year . |
| 3 | No patient in this group could be considered to have had a successful and uneventful procedure . |
| 4 | Other economic unions , some short-lived and some longer-lived , in Africa , Asia and the Americas , have had a modicum of influence locally , but none can be said to have had a major influence in global terms . |
| 5 | However , of Truman , Eisenhower , Kennedy , Nixon , Ford and Carter , none could be said to have had a decisive impact on the direction of domestic policy . |
| 6 | Senescent Eskimos , for example , might be thought to have had a raw deal if the stories of the banishment from the familial hearth of those unfit to hunt and fish are to be believed . |
| 7 | Recent warnings by prominent Quebec business leaders concerning the negative economic consequences of independence , coupled with the current economic recession , were thought to have had a sobering effect upon public opinion . |
| 8 | Magnus is said to have led a blameless childhood and in the Longer Magnúss Saga he is said to have had a good schooling which enabled him to learn ‘ holy writings ’ . |
| 9 | The robber , aged about 20 and wearing a green hat , escaped in a G-registered burgundy-coloured Vauxhall Cavalier and is believed to have had a trilby-hatted accomplice in the car . |
| 10 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 11 | The book was said to have had a sizeable effect . |
| 12 | However , publication of a poll of Rabin 's fellow retired generals and of senior officials of Mossad , the intelligence service , the same day , was thought to have had a decisive effect in allaying public fears over the security aspects of Labour 's policies . |
| 13 | The royal dynasty , thus , was thought to have had a supernatural origin . |
| 14 | Kim , who had transformed Daewoo from a small textile-exporting company into the country 's fourth-largest conglomerate , was renowned as an entrepreneur and was known to have had a huge amount of personal wealth with which to have supported a presidential campaign . |