Example sentences of "would have had [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So erm so we decided I wish we 'd have had erm I wish sometimes we 'd have had that radiator on that wall . |
| 2 | ‘ I doubt if you 'd have had any choice , ’ said Hugh with sympathy , ‘ and certainly you have none now . ’ |
| 3 | I think perhaps , as I say , I 'd have had some colour . |
| 4 | But looking purely at the outside bit , If they 'd have had some whitewash on I think they 'd have looked better . |
| 5 | ‘ Then you 'd have had another reason for me not to stay on board . ’ |
| 6 | You 'd have thought he 'd have had more sense . ’ |
| 7 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 8 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 9 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
| 10 | But for the opening of two artificial pitches at Feltham School , they would have had great difficulty in finding a home venue in recent seasons . |
| 11 | If they had served small areas , the CMHTs would have had great difficulty in liaising with the specialist facilities and organizations ( statutory and non-statutory ) which characterize the mental handicap field and which necessarily tend to cover large areas if not regions . |
| 12 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 13 | A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday . |
| 14 | One would have had greater confidence if the selection were from a longer list nominated by other bodies unconnected with the government of the day . |
| 15 | Just as I am sure twenty-seven victories seemed utterly insufficient to Jackie — and had he not retired , he was certainly fit enough and a good enough driver , given the right cars , to which he would have had total access , to notch up another fifteen or twenty — I am sure that his first million seemed a trifle . |
| 16 | If alternative pathways of health care provision were used extensively we would have had serious underascertainment . |
| 17 | It is a conclusion about an almost psychiatric effect ( and comfort ) offered by serious drama which Aristotle would have had much sympathy with . |
| 18 | But she did n't see that she would have had much choice . |
| 19 | Without this disparity it would have had an overall entitlement of 38 seats , and instead of winning one excess seat it would have had two list seats in addition to the 36 it won in constituencies . |
| 20 | They could be constructed by random surveys of a general practitioner 's practice population ( culturally valid ) , most of whom would have had personal experience of common conditions . |
| 21 | Magazines such as Majesty and Royal Monthly would have had little hope of survival in the 1960s or 1970s . |
| 22 | In 1938 Sartre , who by his own admission was still mystified to the core by bourgeois idealist presuppositions , would have had little sympathy for theories linking the technical structure of the novel to the historical reality of contemporary French society . |
| 23 | Normally he would have had little patience with the attitudes of the Fromes , but the morning after such a bereavement did n't seem the time to argue the social or political toss with them . |
| 24 | Firstly , it was not simply a question of poor front-end processing because even a substantial improvement in the front-end performance would have had little effect on reducing the problem . |
| 25 | The government had argued that its proposal to include words expressing the minister 's responsibility for further and higher education in a new bill would have had little impact , because the main thrust of the bill in question was changes in the administration of schools . |
| 26 | The extra cost of a harder and more lasting cutting edge was a wise investment — warriors would have had little time to re-sharpen their blades in the heat of battle ! |
| 27 | The King 's desire to join the Queen is a mystery , for , ’ he added bitterly , ‘ he would have had little joy out of her . ’ |
| 28 | Anne would have had good use for a machete . |
| 29 | Any liability you have accepted by agreement or contract unless you would have had that liability anyway . |
| 30 | Any liability you have accepted by agreement or contract unless you would have had that liability anyway . |