Example sentences of "[verb] have the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 The college has had the heart-rending task of choosing between applications from equally deserving cases .
2 ‘ If the host has had the normal course of immunisation , then yes , it should follow near enough the same evolutionary pattern .
3 IT WAS not just the Stewart's/Melville players who celebrated their promotion-winning victory , but also the club treasurer who has had the impossible task of balancing the books this season .
4 He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago .
5 In the Neolithic period , totalitarian states emerged as a result of the reappearance of profound inequalities made possible by the acquisition of agricultural surpluses , whereas in the modern epoch most of the comparable states emerged out of periods of revolution and upheaval constituted mainly by a struggle for equality — a fact that has had the odd consequence of leaving all modern police states with official ideologies strongly committed to a non-existent freedom and egalitarianism for their citizens .
6 A company called Popperfoto , which owns one of the world 's largest photographic libraries , now has its headquarters in the region , and Central South has had the rare privilege of being allowed free access to its contents .
7 It has had the natural result of generally tending to increase the harshness of punishment — and consequently the size of the prison population and the scale of the penal crisis .
8 President Havel has had the dreary uniforms of the Communist state redesigned by Theodore Pištěk , the costume designer for the film Amadeus , much of which was shot in Prague .
9 Will he assure the House that he has had the unreserved support of the Opposition during the passage of that Bill ?
10 American unionism has had the inestimable advantage of being born in a land whose social landscape was not cluttered up with the debris of a feudal age .
11 During a time of extreme pressure on his own Government , he has had the added burden of the presidency of the EC .
12 In fact , his chances will not alter at all because he has had the valuable opportunity of leading two A tours and the grey matter of his leadership on the field is well known . ’
13 To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns .
14 Richard Feigen the high profile dealer who used to show the quick among artists back in the 1960s but who now specializes in the dead ( so much easier to cope with ! ) has had the bright idea of mounting , this month , the first Pierre Roy exhibition in the United States in over fifty years .
15 P.P.O.W. has had the bright notion of reviving that intersection this month in a show called ‘ Between the Sheets ’ .
16 Until very recently , the SAAF has had the praiseworthy policy of flying as many of its historic airframes as possible , and the Oxford 's restoration has been undertaken with this in mind , or at the very least to allow the aircraft to ground-run .
17 This chapter has had the modest aim of explaining only the kind of way in which it must have happened .
18 A photograph taken in Picasso 's studio in the summer of 1908 shows an earlier , apparently more or less completed version of the Three Women executed in a style which makes use of rough , almost violent striations , used to emphasize the different areas to the sides of the figures , while the figures themselves appear to have the rough-hewn bulkiness of much of the most characteristic contemporary African-influenced figure pieces .
19 It needs to have the necessary quality of confidence about it. ) 4 Whether the relevant information can be easily isolated from other information which the employee is free to use or disclose This to some extent relies on the intelligence and honesty of the employee .
20 This is a difficult area in practice as the legislation specifies no age at which children may be considered to have the requisite degree of understanding .
21 Buttons control applications , as you can see by the screenshot , so you do n't need to have the full weight of Program Manager in each room — only the applications you want to use there .
22 If the union struggle was to have any success it would need to have the complementary support of a political party , but as the ‘ parties ’ were preoccupied with the fight for short term gain and not permanent principles , they failed to capitalise on the situation .
23 With the hassle , I somehow missed out on the pudding , but G assured me he 'd had the usual number of five .
24 Concern was also expressed in some quarters when it became known that Christopher Ball was to be appointed Chairman of the Board , on the grounds that as head of an Oxford College he would not appear to have the intimate knowledge of the further education system that such a post requires .
25 Barton means literally ‘ barley farm ’ or ‘ corn farm ’ , but later came to have the special meaning of ‘ demesne farm ’ .
26 Already he seemed to have the reassuring kind of manner one associated with being a doctor .
27 In the past children 's reading was seen to have the heavy purpose of providing the young reader with moral guidance , indeed moral direction .
28 However fantastic the labyrinth into which that impulse had led him , his first visit to St Matthew 's at least had had the comforting stamp of normality and reason .
29 boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with .
30 She now began to have the strange experience of finding herself taking part in the life of the Holy Family .
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