Example sentences of "have had [adj] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French education system has had many of the features now introduced into the British system for more than a century and studying them may shed some light on future possibilities for schooling in this country . |
| 2 | It is worth remembering that a deeply discounted rights issue is merely one which has had some of the qualities of a scrip issue added to it . |
| 3 | Following non-stop criticism and appalling ratings , BBC boss-to-be John Birt has had enough of the sun , sex and sangria shambles — launched with a huge fanfare just two months ago . |
| 4 | The fact that it captured only a third of the vote indicates that the public has had enough of the bickering between its two old war-horses , M Chirac and M Giscard d'Estaing . |
| 5 | The man who was faster , stronger and went higher than most , has had enough of the pole vault pit . |
| 6 | It was in a concealed metal box underneath the dashboard , that he 'd had one of the fitters weld in one evening for him , thirty quid and not a word to anyone , least of all Tom Holdfast . |
| 7 | However , in 1967 she decided she 'd had enough of the movies , although she did appear recently in Always , along with Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter . |
| 8 | By the time my daughter was eighteen and at university , I 'd had enough of the navy and the navy had had enough of me . |
| 9 | He was very young — only newly qualified in Britain before he 'd decided he 'd had enough of the climate , grey and defeatist , and come to the West Indies to try his luck — but Stephen had admired his chutzpah and Christina the laid-back island style he 'd adopted . |
| 10 | She 'd had enough of the pettiness of living with parents and the irrelevance of school was smothering her head . |
| 11 | I 'd had enough of the party and the noise and figured it might be a good idea to get some rest . |
| 12 | And when he sagged and said he 'd had enough of the place and it was not what he had thought it would be , she said life never was and that if he wanted to stay in Fleet Street he would be foolish to leave without a new job to go to . |
| 13 | Though it was when I heard her using bad language to my housekeeper and being unwarrantedly rude to Ivo that I decided I 'd had enough of the woman . ’ |
| 14 | By the end of yesterday , having had half of the region 's press beating a path to her cage door in deepest East Cowton ( and a simultaneous announcement of her existence was being made in New York ) , she was feeling distinctly tired but kept her pecker up by chewing on a favourite piece of banana . |
| 15 | It might have been dubious to have had any of the characters holding the scissors , but because it was the child of the foursome doing it , that made it an even bigger mistake , which I accepted , putting it down totally to inexperience on my behalf . |
| 16 | Scriabin 's First Symphony is a cyclic , tautly structured work than can well manage without being manoeuvred towards the sound world of the Poem of Ecstasy , and Segerstam would have done better to have had more of an ear for pacing and projection than is evident here . |
| 17 | Earlier in his racing career , the under-funded Hill spent most of his formative years riding motor bikes long before his mother Bette decided she had had enough of the dangers of two-wheel road racing . |
| 18 | She had had enough of the blackout and the bombing and the shortages , and if she let herself think too much about the invasion she would become quite ill . |
| 19 | He decided lie had had enough of the Coalition . |
| 20 | It was Tuesday lunchtime , and they were sitting in the restaurant at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the Mall ; Ginny often ate there when she had had enough of the food and the company in the canteen of the British Council . |
| 21 | ‘ They 've had one of the stags again . |
| 22 | I 've had enough of the lights , so we turn round and head back to the house . |
| 23 | And now we 've had enough of the subject . ’ |
| 24 | I 've had enough of the town . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've had enough of the forest for one day . ’ |
| 26 | I 've had most of the paté . ’ |
| 27 | Residents have had enough of the joyriders . |
| 28 | This is his sixteenth over , two for seventeen with nine maidens so far , bowling from the far end , the nursery end with a cluster of fielders , you 've got a silly point and a short leg and a slip and he 's got er , at the moment four men on the leg side as he 's had most of the time and five on the off , and now a slight adjustment , we 're gon na have an extra one around the batsman . |
| 29 | Bubbly schoolgirl Claire says she 's had enough of the Cinderella lifestyle forced on her by her natural mother and wants to live with her former foster parents . |