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

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1 As most of you will know , Queens Park has had a long standing partnership with the Baptist Church in Doolay Falls near Wichita , Kansas .
2 The 0-4-4T loco has had a chequered restoration history since arriving back from a stay in the United States of more than 20 years .
3 I feel very proud that Dounreay has had a two year advantage in setting up this system . ’
4 Friends of the Earth has had a similar growth rate in that period , so that its membership is now over 180,000 .
5 And his wife Marion , 37 , has had a major cancer op .
6 While the Thatcher government has had a major policy aim of controlling public expenditure and has used the block-grant regime and rate-capping to that end , centrally imposed financial controls not only infringe the rights of elected councillors to determine local spending needs and priorities but also undermine accountability to local ratepayers .
7 Until now the the F111 has had a good safety record.July 's crash was the first in peace time .
8 A school has had a restricted spending function when it came to utilising the limited amount of money available to buy books and equipment under its capitation allowance .
9 Blackburn v Middlesbrough Undefeated Blackburn name full-back Sulley , who has had a trapped thigh nerve .
10 It has had a symmetric multi-processing version of Unix SVR4 available for its Sparc-based DRS6000 systems on the market for some eighteen months now .
11 The Government has had a special Cabinet committee looking at ways of reducing unemployment but its recommended package is not due to be announced for a couple of weeks .
12 Samuel Rhodes , the viola player of the Quartet , has had a larger size instrument made which enables the normal viola range to extend downwards by a fourth .
13 The Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year Award has had a happier track record .
14 UK , Macclesfield firm , JSB Computer Systems Ltd 's US operation , out in Scotts Valley , California ( UX No 347 ) , has had a few teething troubles — it is some $200,000 short of its initial target and has undergone a few staff changes — however JSB managing director , Steve Jones says the unit turned in $150,000 last month and is now holding its own .
15 Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates .
16 Mr Souness is expected to have a triple bypass operation later today to relieve the narrowing or blocking of his arteries .
17 For a fixed number of traders , they derived the result that the covariance of squared daily price changes and daily volume is a positive function of the variance of the directing or mixing variable , and this relationship is expected to have a heteroscedastic disturbance term .
18 How does a model in which CD45R0 memory cells appear to have a shorter lifespan accord with the long persistence of immunological memory ?
19 Furthermore , the objective threat posed by the Soviet Union and its own nuclear weapons means that the United States has to have a permanent war economy and that the people recognise this and vote for it .
20 If it had been up to me , you 'd have one police communication room , not two , because I 've worked in operations control , and you want to have a single control room for your authority , if any other system is less efficient than that .
21 Where the user takes advantage of the voluntary vision screening programme and as a consequence of vision defects at the viewing distances used specifically for the display screen work concerned is recommended to have a full eyesight examination by an ophthalmic optician , then during this interim period , the user will be permitted to use an ophthalmic optician of their own choice .
22 WaveLAN uses low power — 100mW — 2.4GHz spread spectrum technology and is claimed to have a 600 foot operating radius in open plan offices , with a 2Mbps data throughput .
23 THE Republic of Ireland expect to have a full strength team out on Wednesday , they expect to beat Lithuania and they expect to be in the USA for next summer 's World Cup finals .
24 Each business will need to have a solid safety net of low risk performance areas , whose task will be to reduce the cost base to the absolute minimum , supporting a much smaller proportion of high risk , hopefully high return ventures .
25 Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them .
26 Two years earlier he 'd had a privatised council house in East Ham , a nice little business and his family .
27 He 'd had a separate telephone line installed ; she lived with that .
28 They 'd had a huge fork lift truck on the roof where they stored materials .
29 He also told me about another ex-employee who 'd had a fatal motor accident … ’
30 The education convener , Mervyn Rolfe , said that although Tayside did not appear to have a greater bullying problem than elsewhere , anything which impeded a pupil should be tackled swiftly and methodically .
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