Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody could have foreseen such a rapid expansion prior to , and since , moving into the new premises . |
| 2 | In retrospect it looks odd that such a massive Conservative majority should have sustained such an ineffective ex-Labour Prime Minster for so long . |
| 3 | She obviously would not have travelled such a huge distance if she did not hold out hope for the relationship , and Charity wanted to respect that . |
| 4 | Northern Brave , the probable favourite , was rather disappointing last time out , and Valiant Boy may not have won such a good race as Stay Awake . |
| 5 | In front of this woman , under any normal circumstances , she would have dropped half a dozen years , for she knew she did not look her age . |
| 6 | ‘ You can not have expected such a satisfactory development for the World at such a late stage in the debate . ’ |
| 7 | A great detective might have considered this an astounding coincidence were it not for the fact that the hostelry was the only place in the whole of King 's Magnum Parva where a lady or a gentleman might obtain a meal . |
| 8 | ‘ No doubt if you had made a speedier recovery , I might not have enjoyed such a free hand ; but then , your illness was prolonged by your feverish attack of conscience with regard to your precious daughter ! |
| 9 | Some commentators have complained that Clark 's title , Civilisation , was misleading , as only Western arts were treated ; but even if Clark had been willing to take on world art , costs would no doubt have prevented such a grandiose project . |
| 10 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
| 11 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 12 | You know you 've got to get your foot in and you know if you 've got erm people in tackles , come on , they are n't any different to anybody else and maybe I thought we could have done that a little bit better . |
| 13 | He might have done this a good deal earlier if he had wanted for it was completely blank . |
| 14 | Few articles can have made such a great and immediate impact on both the theoretical and practical planes . |
| 15 | Galileo could not believe that a genius such as Archimedes would have used such a crude method . |
| 16 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 17 | ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’ |
| 18 | Without the spectators cheering me on I do n't think I could have had such a good race . |
| 19 | They must have had such a pleasing approach to Raasay House ; the bay of their arrival seems unlikely to have changed , a wide and gentle place , now full of windsurfers — the mansion where they stayed now houses an Adventure School . |
| 20 | ‘ I can not think , ’ remarked Russell , ‘ Why laziness should have had such a bad press . |
| 21 | Others , who may not have had such a happy relationship with their parents in the past , take on care out of a sense of duty . |
| 22 | ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position . |
| 23 | I sensed him thinking that we should have had half a dozen in the boat by now . |
| 24 | But if he 'd have had some a little bit of direction |
| 25 | The attempt has failed , through scepticism that one man could have supervised such a major project whilst still discharging Elias 's functions as steward and administrator elsewhere . |
| 26 | Then the figure spoke again , and Jim 's heart leapt like he would never have thought possible a few nights earlier , as he recognised the nasal drawl of the red-neck trucker called Jube . |
| 27 | WHO would have thought such an angelic little boy would one day transform himself into a colossal 275lb power-packed man-mountain ? |
| 28 | It is perhaps less obvious why both of them Polybius and Posidonius — should have played such a conspicuous part in exploring the barbarian West and in making it more easily accessible to the Romans . |
| 29 | Ashe , now 49 , grew up in the segregated American South of the 1950's , making it wholly appropriate that he should have become such a dedicated campaigner for equal rights all round the world . |
| 30 | He thought again about how the changes which had occurred in the Southern Capital , to which Surere had now been exposed after so long away , might have affected such an inflexible heart . |