Example sentences of "[vb past] have the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher said economic sanctions did have the effect of depressing an economy and depriving people of jobs , but rarely if ever had the desired political effect . |
| 2 | Mr Scrivener said that while the council did have the right to take out interest-rate swaps for debt management , other types of transaction were ultra vires . |
| 3 | But the party did have the sense to remove the figures from a policy commitment to halve the UK population . |
| 4 | He did have the advantage , however , of pursuing a single specific goal — that of taking the company through privatisation . |
| 5 | But she did have the satisfaction that no sooner were the two decisions taken , than the entire Palais de Congress , housing the summit , the media and several thousand attendants and officials , was plunged into darkness by a five-minute power failure . |
| 6 | If he actually put his foot down and said , ‘ No , I think that 's ridiculous ’ , everyone shut up and listened , and I feel that this was the first time that he realised that he did have the powers of leadership , not only on stage but also off stage . ’ |
| 7 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 8 | But whereas the year before the absence of yellowing was proof that Britain did not have the same forest decline as in Europe , its discovery did not show that Britain did have the same forest decline . |
| 9 | He did not imagine Randolph Henry Ash , his pen moving rapidly across the paper , but he did have the thought of the pads of the long-dead fingers which had held and folded these half-covered sheets , before preserving them in the book , instead of jettisoning them . |
| 10 | Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary . |
| 11 | Whatever else Edna Jacques had , she did have the common touch and her verses seemed to bring a breath of warmth and kindly understanding to thousands of prairie wives who laboured — unwept , unhonoured and unsung — in the deepening trenches of the depression . |
| 12 | However , that agenda did have the advantage that it could be developed on an evolutionary basis , and that further innovations could be incorporated without major upheaval . |
| 13 | Galileo did have the insight to perceive that the effect was probably the same as that when a drop of water would remain on a cabbage leaf . |
| 14 | Administrative staff were to be offered equivalent posts to those they now held , but Corporation staff did have the opportunity of transferring to other departments of the Municipality . |
| 15 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 16 | In the case of Camden and Islington , the authority did have good officers , and they did have the capacity to plan for a future district based provision . |
| 17 | They did have the consolation of a team medal , however , and only Sudbury 's Steve Jones prevented RTE taking a first five clean sweep . |
| 18 | Shropshire did have the services of the former Worcestershire seam bowler Paul Pridgeon at the start of the season , but a breakdown in mutual respect ended that relationship . |
| 19 | Using full rudder at the stall did induce a more rapid wing drop , and I did have the feeling that had we pursued it we might induce a spin , but this does not , however , detract from the aircraft 's very acceptable slow speed handling characteristics . |
| 20 | The composer did have the opportunity to revise and shorten the Second Symphony , but it remains as long as the First , and needs a strong forward motivation which it certainly receives here . |
| 21 | ‘ When The Group left , ’ says Nicky , ‘ we did have the problem of how to keep body and soul together . |
| 22 | The Location of Offices Bureau showed the way in South-East England ; distances moved from central London were often modest but they did have the effect of prising population outward . |
| 23 | Gloucester could not rival Herbert 's local connections , but he did have the status to make an acceptable figurehead and he seems to have put considerable energy into the role . |
| 24 | ‘ the burden is upon the defendant , Mr. Smith , to satisfy the court on the balance of probabilities that Mr. Winterbone did have the necessary capacity . |
| 25 | and I think its true that if women did have the money particularly of their own they would spend it on their body 's or their faces . |
| 26 | I did have the |
| 27 | You did have the receipt ? |
| 28 | Now he knew that the Darkfall effect did have the answer to those questions and that Bissell could give him those answers . |
| 29 | Pearlman was wrong because in that case the county court did have the ability to determine conclusively interrelated questions of law and fact . |
| 30 | ( Curiously , although Magistrate Judge Ross ruled that plaintiffs did have the right to take a deposition from Aviv , their counsel never attempted to do so . |