Example sentences of "have have [det] " in BNC.

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1 In both systems the vast majority of professional judges come from upper-class and upper-middle-class backgrounds ; the United States Supreme Court has one black member and one woman ; the British Law Lords in the House of Lords have had neither .
2 Over the years I have had all sorts of lighter weight machines and I have gradually replaced them with either Wadkin or Robinson versions .
3 The task of computerising the collections of an institution like the British Museum is a substantial one , but the day will come , some years hence , when all departments have had all their documentation computerised and all their objects checked .
4 The Northern Ireland government had had a bad press for years as have had all weak and well-meaning governments in a classical revolutionary situation whether they were Stuart , Bourbon , Romanov or more modern .
5 went before — for I found her here — and I have had all the plague possible to persuade her to go back again but at last she went .
6 Now that you have had all four meetings with prospective purchasers I feel I should recap on the progress so far and set out how we move forward from here .
7 Yet Robert Reiner ( 1989 ) , writing on the collective culture of chief constables , is the first to explore their extraordinary place in modern society , simply because as an élite among the powerful in society they have had little need to reveal how they operate , link together , or reveal what structures of significance guide their actions .
8 And they have had little enough to say .
9 Even if the person or family have had little contact with a religious organisation a minister may be willing to visit while the person is dying .
10 Further , the EC 's common agricultural policy ( CAP ) seems virtually reform-proof : efforts over the years to undo its worst nonsenses have had little success .
11 Ethologists have been particularly struck by the complexity of the behavioural responses of comparatively ‘ naïve ’ animals ( that is , animals which have had little opportunity to learn ) .
12 Though I must emphasize that I have had little to do with the business .
13 Olayide and Falusi ( 1977 : 1 15 ) comment that ‘ past government efforts in soil conservation have been very meagre and have had little impact in solving the erosion problems ’ .
14 In the remoter corners of water authority empires , which have had little more than a decade in which to professionalize themselves since their formation in 1974 , gangs of river maintenance staff inherited from the far less environmentally accountable river boards have guarded their independence from interference by senior central management within their own organizations .
15 I had never consciously associated with what is called complementary medicine , and as the reader will have discovered , I have had little to do with any form of medicine .
16 One sad aspect of the sexual revolution is the fact that by and large the churches have had little to contribute that is positive and constructive .
17 Whilst Underwood 's somewhat arbitrary classification is now little used , the patterns which he detected , multi-strand lines and spirals , continue to be found by those who in some cases have had little contact with his original work .
18 Such has been the pace of South Africa 's re-entry into the world arena that Rhodes and his team mates have had little time to be overawed by the situation , which for a youngster from a small town in Natal is quite remarkable .
19 Younger children , or those that have had little experience of playing freely , need a little more encouragement and the next example illustrates how a teacher was able to lead a small group without directing them too much .
20 Some of the best broadcasters in Africa have had little in the way of schooling : there is a place in radio for good storytellers , musicians and other men and women with knowledge and wisdom gained from experience rather than from formal education .
21 These moves have had little effect on psychology 's general tendency to represent sexuality simply as heterosexuality .
22 Since issues of property dominate legal work the propertyless have had little cause to encounter it unless they interfered with the interests of those with property .
23 Usually , those who have espoused it as a goal have had little interest in the idea of equalizing all the pupils of a school or an educational system , or indeed all the people in a particular country .
24 Teachers readily admit at the present time that in most cases they have had little or no training in assessment procedures , and therefore feel they lack both the skills and the confidence to take on a more responsible role in certification .
25 The commission claims that most of its proposals have had little impact on labour costs ( France , not the commission , thought up the 48-hour week ) .
26 They have had little success .
27 Needless to say Jeffery , and many others , have had little difficulty in showing how all such attempts have inevitably boiled down to the arbitrary moral predilections of the criminologists concerned .
28 says that the problems with contract management were ‘ second-order issues ’ and that the cost overruns have had little overall impact on the scientific programmes .
29 In Britain we have had little chance of forming an opinion , certainly as to the first part of that sentence , but as to the second ( ‘ the richest , fullest … ‘ ) it coincides exactly with my own reaction to her Wigmore Hall recital in London .
30 The senior nurse now acts as a support , resource and coordinator and a flattened hierarchy results : the senior nurse is the key to the professional development of staff who often come from a traditional nursing culture , where they have had little accountability .
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