Example sentences of "have had [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has had interests in numerous word puzzles and teasers in the past . |
| 2 | Thorntree Library , at Beresford Crescent , Middlesbrough , has had £12,000 of streamlined shelves fitted and a new £24,000 central heating system installed . |
| 3 | Iran has had periods of imperial greatness , but Iranians have also experienced successive waves of invasion , intervention and occupation , which have left them understandably fearful of suspicious of foreigners . |
| 4 | One thing he said struck me as a pointer to watch when spotting for future take-overs : ‘ Like every company we have ever taken over , RHM has had problems at head office . ’ |
| 5 | He points out that he has come across cases where , a link having been formed between the two , the patient has had phases of extraordinary well-being and health during which his psychologist has succumbed to severe mental malaise . |
| 6 | During the lifetime of this Government the average family the hon. Gentleman talks about has had increases in disposable income of unprecedented levels , in excess of £50 per week , while the hon. Gentleman well knows that from 1974 to 1979 their standard of living bumped along without showing any significant increase . |
| 7 | The development of the zones has had implications for surrounding areas . |
| 8 | The author , investigative journalist David Leigh , has had access to unpublished trial records and secret Whitehall files , and says that ‘ Ministers have been getting away with murder . |
| 9 | Anyone who has had access to classified work produced by the scientific civil service is likely to endorse this view . |
| 10 | I 'd had visions of various Uulaan delights that I hoped she might join me in , above all the free-fall Orgitunnel , among whose heaving tangle of bodies in simulated zerograv I 've had many memorable experience . |
| 11 | It is not surprising that in the mid-fourth century the shape of the Pyramids should have influenced the architecture of an otherwise Greek building like the Mausoleum at Halikarnassus ; or that the cult of the Egyptian Isis should have had worshippers at fourth-century Athens ( Tod 189 , line 44 and p. 178 ) . |
| 12 | If one were to include other categories of ‘ news ’ , such as ‘ Law , police and accidents ’ — a category excluded from the public affairs one — then the reader would have had access to substantial amounts of information about the outside world . |
| 13 | In so doing he may have had access to local traditions . |
| 14 | Reports also emerged of reprisals against Kurds alleged to have had contacts with foreign nationals . |
| 15 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 16 | So when he claims to have had glimpses of absolute Truth , it may be reasonable to assume , not that he has caught a glimpse of some kind of hypostasized Ultimate or extra-mundane entity , but rather that through his participation in a particular form of life he is made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain religious and ethical criteria and is informed by the spirit of what might be called dharma ( law ) , or ta ( moral law ) , or tao ( way ) but which he prefers to call Truth ( Satya ) or God . |
| 17 | Many of them had had sex with other gays , but few of them had accepted that you could make a way of life out of it . |
| 18 | In a manslaughter case in which the dead wife had had affairs with other men , Mr Justice Leonard said ‘ [ the defendant ] deserved sympathy because his life had become miserable ’ . |
| 19 | With a handsome face and flowing silver hair , his appearance was eminently statesmanlike ; he was a former Governor of Texas and , unlike Reagan , he had had experience of national politics , as Nixon 's Secretary of the Treasury . |
| 20 | Between the ages of 2 and 5 she had had episodes of disturbed behaviour during sleep . |
| 21 | I 'm quite prepared to be a single mum and I 've had offers from male friends who 'd like children but do n't want a wife , and I 'm tempted . |
| 22 | sure , there may be some thinking that , there may also though be er if you move through to the forties you 're , y you 're twenty years on from the nineteen twenties , you , you 've had and you 've had deterioration in agricultural conditions er as , as we 've seen you 've got erm increasing landlord absenteeism , you , you 've got a downward , an upward pressure on rent in terms of how much was having to be paid in real terms , all of those things might have come together to , to , to push the peasant over and to push him outside . |
| 23 | He says they 've had loads of public support . |
| 24 | ‘ I hope you 've had time for other things as well ? ’ |
| 25 | Several times when I 've had foods with hidden milk products , the symptoms have come back almost immediately , ’ she says , ‘ Now I am full of energy . |
| 26 | This concept may explain why the inflammatory changes manifested in the clinical syndrome of ‘ pouchitis ’ are seen almost exclusively in patients who have had colectomy for inflammatory bowel disease rather than familial polyposis . |
| 27 | It helps if you have had experience over different types of cross-country jumps — like ditches and water . |
| 28 | All these powers have had experience in living memory of the inadequacy of paper promises , and the extreme costs of all-out conventional war . |
| 29 | In the UK , 80% of all people with AIDS and 58% of all known people with HIV infection , are men who have had sex with other men . |
| 30 | We have had discussions with British Rail who confirm that in principle they have no objections to such new stations . |