Example sentences of "have had an [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A WOMAN who lost her husband and two small sons in a fire earlier this year has had an attempted break-in at her new home . |
| 2 | I mean it came about because , and I wo n't name names , one member of staff for example has had an astonishing amount of time |
| 3 | If it 's ever proved that the mink has had an unacceptable effect on the environment , then it might be difficult , if not impossible , to redress the balance . |
| 4 | Risk of developing osteoporosis is greatest once past the menopause , but there is also a risk in anyone who has had an early menopause after removal of the ovaries ; in those who are underweight , and who are white with ‘ transparent ’ skin ( black women suffer fewer fractures ) . |
| 5 | , 43 , is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and has had an extensive career in sales and marketing in the wholesale and retail food industry ; wholesale hardware trade and the computer industry . |
| 6 | It has always been thus in Ulster tennis which has had an amazing ability over the years to lose its talent to other activities . |
| 7 | It 's another blow for the club which has had an appalling run of injuries to key players . |
| 8 | David Holford , the West Indies team manager , said : ‘ It seems that the strain of at last proving himself on English wickets last year has had an adverse effect on his form . ’ |
| 9 | The world oil glut has had an adverse effect on South Africa 's grandiose ambitions as a coal exporter and also on its synthetic fuels business . |
| 10 | This is partly because the textiles and coverings have been treated with a sodium borate solution ( to increase their resistance to fire ) which has had an adverse effect on their appearance , and partly because most of the paintwork needs renewing . |
| 11 | Overall , however , afforestation in Britain has had an adverse impact on bird populations ( Ratcliffe and Oswald 1987 ) . |
| 12 | She really has had an awful lot of attention . |
| 13 | It is an old and rather like able town which , standing where it does , so near to the edge of France and commanding the coast road into Spain , has had an agitated history with numerous episodes of war . |
| 14 | No other act of his dismal presidency deserves mention ; but in an irony perhaps lost on his many detractors , his single decision in March 1852 to despatch a naval expedition to Japan , under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry , has had an ineradicable effect on world history . |
| 15 | Aston Villa boss Ron Atkinson has had an increased bid of £425,000 for Aldridge rejected . |
| 16 | It 's the first time Bentley has had an all-new shape to itself for almost two generations — since 1952 , in fact , when the first of the R-type Continentals was launched in limited numbers and initially for export only . |
| 17 | This view has had an influential impact on psychology , and although some might now consider such ideas outmoded , they continue to have an enduring effect on public perceptions of old age . |
| 18 | As Mira sees it , this form of language use has had an indelible effect on human consciousness : |
| 19 | Toilet phobia developing when the child has had an unpleasant experience in the toilet and has become frightened to use it ( Ashkenazi 1975 ) . |
| 20 | ( that stands for Kids of Survival ) , an artist cooperative that has had an enormous success in recent years , opened its first show at Mary Boone last month . |
| 21 | The New Criticism began , as 1 said , with the work of Richards and Eliot ; more exactly one can say that it began with the publication in 1924 of Richards 's Principles of Literary Criticism , a radical , polemical programme for the study of literature that has had an enormous impact on British criticism and scholarship in the past fifty years . |
| 22 | She was the first woman delegate to the Humberside County Association of Trades Councillors and the first woman on the executive and has had an enormous impact on the Association 's efforts on women 's issues . |
| 23 | For some years , it has had an associate office in Accra , Ghana 's capital city . |
| 24 | The complexity of modern technology has had an important influence on the scale of life in modern society . |
| 25 | A high proportion of affected subjects are therefore compound heterozygotes rather than homozygotes , although particular mutations may occur with a frequency of over 60% in certain populations and there may be close association with particular haplotypes , indicating that founder effect has had an important influence on the distribution of mutations across nations . |
| 26 | Conflict in the employment relationship has had an important influence on theories of industrial relations . |
| 27 | The weaker version of left idealism — that working-class crime is an irrelevance , dramatised by the capitalist media for diversionary purposes — has had an important resurgence in the 1980s with reference to black urban crime , thus adding a racial component to the original class issue ( see Tierney , 1988 , for both an analysis and an evocation of the sense of déjà vu ) . |
| 28 | Table 4.4 , which summarises the main studies , shows that they all agree that regional policy has had an important effect on job creation though they disagree on how important it has been . |
| 29 | Among those waiting to welcome the Scots yesterday morning was Omar Henry — the former coach cum professional of the Scotland XI has had an excellent season for Orange Free State , being their leading wicket-taker . |
| 30 | ‘ The present manager , Jim Jefferies , has had an excellent record since coming to Falkirk , and he deserves every support in his effort to ensure that we have Premier League football at Falkirk next year . ’ |