Example sentences of "[adv] have had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Richard Cawston 's film could not have had a better critical reception if it had been the combined work of Eisenstein , Hitchcock and Fellini , ’ wrote the critic in the Evening Standard . |
| 2 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |
| 3 | I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching . |
| 4 | Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ? |
| 5 | Brian Horton says they could not have had a better match . |
| 6 | The dazed expression had almost left her face and I wondered if she might not have had a slight stroke when Celia abandoned her , and was now recovering . |
| 7 | I hope you will not have had a fruitless journey , Mrs er — ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They both might be fit for Saturday and , even though they will not have had a reserve team match , they could well come straight back into the squad , ’ he added . |
| 9 | Thus , prices on Simex may not have had a measurable effect on the index . |
| 10 | However , computer simulations using state-of-the-art general atmospheric circulation models undertaken in Britain , Canada , Germany and the United States all suggest the fires will have added only 2–5 per cent to world emissions of carbon dioxide in 1991 and that this increase will not have had a significant influence on world climate change . |
| 11 | She may or may not have had a longstanding paranoid personality ; that 's hard for relatives to cope with , but not necessarily pathological . ’ |
| 12 | His mother should not have had a full ( or even half-full ) mug or one with a handle . |
| 13 | Consequently , other market members ( and their customers ) may not have had a proper opportunity to participate in the trade . |
| 14 | There is no reason to think that people in the past may not have had a profound understanding of God , an understanding which will illuminate one 's own . |
| 15 | If this had happened the rogue could not have conferred title upon the innocent purchaser ( unless under some other exception to the nemo dat principle ) for the rogue would no longer have had a voidable title . |
| 16 | Instead , structured gestural sequences , or syntagmata as MacNeill calls them , might already have had a rudimentary grammar before they were overlaid by speech . |
| 17 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She could n't imagine he could ever have had a single moment of nervous insecurity in his whole charmed life . |
| 20 | And , if he had moved any farther down the course , would he still have had a clear view of Captain Brown waving his flag to signal a false start ? |
| 21 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |
| 22 | Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle . |
| 23 | Herr Hans-Eberhard Klein , the Frankfurt prosecutor who led the search , said : ‘ I am glad it is over , but I would rather have had a live Mengele than a dead one so that some of the thousands who suffered under him could have gained some little satisfaction from a trial . ’ |
| 24 | I hooked up a wriggling worm and ate it : it tasted alright , earthy and slightly gritty , but I would rather have had a proper meal . |
| 25 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 26 | So that vegetable blue also must then as now have had a natural home ? |
| 27 | The increase in this woodland may well have had a beneficial effect on the Woodcock and has provided the increasing breeding Redpoll population with an abundance of habitat . |
| 28 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , he may well have had a guilty conscience : he certainly tried to use his influence to poison Mozart 's career , out of sheer jealousy at the younger man 's superior talents ; but he does not seem to have been directly involved in his death . |
| 30 | The conductor William Llewellyn may well have had a few sleepless nights but must have been proud of his singers . |