Example sentences of "might have have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might have had a splendid pad , |
| 2 | ‘ They might have had a good sleep — but we certainly have n't ! ’ |
| 3 | Walking into a parliament of psychologists , like the governing Council of the British Psychological Society ( BPS ) , she might have had a similar reaction . |
| 4 | Can you please tell us which members of the club might have had a specific motive for wishing to get rid of Sir Conrad ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Is there anybody who might have had a serious grudge against your father ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
| 8 | The painting , which represented the god of wine , Dionysos , might have had a happier fate had Mummius agreed to the bid of 100 talents made for it after the sack by King Attalus of Pergamum , but Mummius was intent on taking his booty to Rome . |
| 9 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 10 | This says that ‘ greater freedom of communication by those professional advisers to the regulators might have had a significant effect on subsequent action , and hence on the later course of events ’ . |
| 11 | If it had done that , we might have had a sensible dialogue with British Rail , but it did not . |
| 12 | When Myra was regressed she was unable to come up with anything which might have had a distressing effect upon her before the incident with her cousin . |
| 13 | She might have had a brief illness best treated outside the home , or it is possible that the balance of her mind was disturbed in some way . |
| 14 | It is rare to find in his writings any acknowledgement of the possibility that Britain 's dominion overseas might have had a less than immaculate conception . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if Lewis had been allowed to live in this way , though we might have had a few more mighty works of literary history from his pen , it is doubtful whether he would have written the works for which he is more popular . |
| 16 | Still , they might have had a few more years left in them yet , and so in that respect , it was rather courageous of them to accept Nicholson 's script and Rafelson 's apparent decision that all good things must come to an end . |
| 17 | I might have had a different man , a bigger apartment , a bigger car , travel that way instead of this . |
| 18 | Bouvard et Pécuchet would have been finished ; Madame Bovary might have been suppressed ( how seriously do we take Gustave 's petulance against the overbearing fame of the book ? a little seriously ) ; and L'Education sentimentale might have had a different ending . |
| 19 | They might have had a miraculous escape . |
| 20 | Jimmy grinned — at any other time Leith might have had a quiet word with him about his cheek . |
| 21 | Voluntary organisations like the Rainer Foundation are at last being listened to and boroughs that ten years ago might have had a dozen children 's homes now have only a couple . |