Example sentences of "[vb -s] have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does not usually do so unless he or a section of the public which he represents has some special interest to protect , in enforcing that particular law , that is not shared by the public at large . |
| 2 | Th the boats are fine but the the main human interest in it does tend to be , in fact , the personally , the two dogs has has more prominence in the picture than this chap , which is a pity . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the party with an honest policy and a swing to its campaign will be defeated by the party whose centrepiece is dishonest , and whose campaign has had all the swagger of a bedraggled old hen in a muddy farmyard . |
| 4 | When the opera is finished , it is rehearsed and if these stupid Frenchmen do not like it , it is not performed — and the composer has had all his trouble for nothing . |
| 5 | Increasing unemployment in the cities has had all kinds of unfortunate consequences : it reduces demand for such services as retailing , while at the same time increasing pressures on public-sector provision ; and social services , housing training and education encounter increased demands for certain activities . |
| 6 | The Guinness Book Of Records has had all its records stolen . |
| 7 | Dunlop rode the Honda which Gawley has had all year and the plan was for Gawley to take over the bike and ride it at Donington . |
| 8 | It may be possible to delete this provision if the Purchaser can be satisfied that it has had all the Business 's contracts disclosed to it one way or another . |
| 9 | " Supernatural " has had all kinds of misleading innuendoes associated with it — such as a separation between this world and another higher one . |
| 10 | A man accused of stealing money from a Gulf War charity has had all charges against him dropped . |
| 11 | America has had many unsuccessful attempts to form a national repertory theatre , performing the classics of the English language , and one wonders whether it will ever be possible to get this going effectively . |
| 12 | Mr Miller started his London restaurant business Kenny 's at the beginning of the recession and says that , what with high interest rates , business rates and rents , an increase in value added tax , plus the recession , it has had many problems . |
| 13 | The Lido Palace has had many famous visitors , including Sir Winston Churchill who spent his honeymoon here . |
| 14 | Although the Club has had many friends over the years his contribution would be difficult to equal . |
| 15 | The rift between conventional and complementary medicine has had many harmful effects . |
| 16 | Mr Punch wishes to assure you that he has had many a good belly laugh from the magazine which bore his name for so many years . |
| 17 | This line has had many threats of closure , and this would end a vital link to Hutton Cranswick . |
| 18 | Still ploughing onwards into the '90s — but with Steve Coogan and Hugh Dennis as its rather disappointing vocal suppliers and a rubbish PM to lampoon — it has had many ups and downs , usually within the space of one show . |
| 19 | The national contract has had many successes and there is a danger these could be threatened by fragmentation . |
| 20 | Old rednose has had many things said and written about him . |
| 21 | For almost 300 years the Value of Neath has had many famous visitors including the artist J.H.M. Turner , whose painting ‘ Aberdulais Mill ’ is well known . |
| 22 | But monism has had many other manifestations : in the philosophy of Croce , in the one-form-one-meaning postulate of pretransformational linguistics , and not least , in some authors ' own sense of the artistic integrity and inviolability of their work ; in Tolstoy 's words : " This indeed is one of the significant facts about a true work of art — that its content in its entirety can be expressed only by itself . " |
| 23 | ‘ People-orientation ’ is based on human relations and has had many variants . |
| 24 | On the poetic side , he has had many good relationships with women . |
| 25 | The heavy dependence on foreign technical assistance has had many disadvantages . |
| 26 | The hotel leaflet ends a few paragraphs on : ‘ The Newton has had many celebrities who have stayed with us over the years , including the late Harold Macmillan and Charlie Chaplin … ’ |
| 27 | Hailing in the past has had many farms , and of these Court Farm is the last major farm , and Mr Peter Lingham now farms the greater part of the agricultural land in Halling as well as some in Cuxton and across the parish boundary into Snodland . |
| 28 | TOP has had many successes , as illustrated by the articles elsewhere in this paper . |
| 29 | I am thinking of General Sir John MacMillan and my distinguished constituent , General Sir David Young , with whom the Secretary of State has had many contacts in his present and previous responsibilities . |
| 30 | 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 . |