Example sentences of "[verb] have a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
2 | Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed . |
3 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
4 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
5 | German cinema has had a low profile of late , with the most feted film being ‘ The Nasty Girl ’ by Michael Verhoeven which took the Silver Lion at last year 's Berlin Film Festival , and received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film . |
6 | Your life story so far , Mrs James , has had a certain lack of distinction . |
7 | Re-selling the goods , therefore , does not constitute acceptance unless the buyer has had a reasonable opportunity of examining them . |
8 | ‘ He has had a great number of stitches inserted in the eyelid and underneath the eye in an effort to keep it closed and avoid further damage . |
9 | If we follow Wimsatt and Beardsley this far , we arrive at a position that has had a great deal of attraction for literary critics , that the object of criticism must be the literary text itself . |
10 | This technique has had a great deal of impact in computer programming where it in systems analysis and design . |
11 | The best example of that is the Alpha 4 database programs , which normally sells for £345 , but for which only £49 needs to be paid if you 're a registered user — it 's gone from version 2 to version 3 , and has had a complete change of documentation . |
12 | This system , which is discussed in detail by Montgomery and Wallace leads to a fairly high number of accesses required to retrieve records from a well-aged file , i.e. one that has had a large number of additions or deletions since it was last loaded . |
13 | Indeed , ever since the Queensberry era began in 1892 every weight division has had a high proportion of middle-class world champions and contenders — men for whom deprivation was having T-bone steaks only twice instead of thrice a week [ see table ] . |
14 | Blackburn has had a high level of female participation in its labour market for over a century . |
15 | While it is undeniable that that system has had a dramatic effect of the development of the market it is incorrect to assume that it is the only one which is influencing it . |
16 | Does that mean he has had a drastic change of heart or is it just that he thinks , along with many of his colleagues , that there is electoral advantage in keeping this quiet at the moment ? |
17 | Nynex Corp 's New England Telephone & Telegraph Co has had a clean bill of health from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which affirmed the double-A-minus senior unsecured debt rating , and said long-term outlook is positive . |
18 | In the decade since then , the club has had a brief taste of the glory days but now is immersed in the worst crisis in its hundred year history . |
19 | Ferguson said : ‘ Lee has had a disastrous couple of years but is happy in the knowledge that while the illness is severe there will be no long-term after-effects . ’ |
20 | Now we will suppose that the author has lighted on important new material or has had a significant number of errors in the first edition pointed out to him . |
21 | J. The port of Hull has a large rich industrial hinterland but the city has had a different sphere of influence , or market area . |
22 | Under the 1881 Cardwell Reforms , both were linked to form The Border Regiment which , over the years , has had a considerable variety of head-dress badges . |
23 | Taking this kind of argument it might be more desirable to improve the lot of someone who has had a considerable amount of resources , but now in old age has very little . |
24 | ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’ |
25 | Students will be expected to have a thorough knowledge of them for their first grading exam . |
26 | In order to analyse possible variations in expression , we studied whole blood from a patient with pheochromocytoma , who was expected to have a high level of expression of this gene , obtaining a value four times higher than those from normal subjects ( data submitted but not shown ) . |
27 | The masses can never be expected to have a clear conception of a supreme God without investing those attributes with a projection of their own personality . |
28 | For efficiency and confidentiality , the conference is expected to have a clear set of objectives , and to be restricted to those people directly involved with the child and the family concerned , and those who need to know about or have a contribution to make to the tasks involved . |
29 | The TW68 is designed to have a maximum range of 1,000 miles while carrying up to 14 passengers . |
30 | The next level are in fact magistrates , who appear to have a similar area of responsibility to our Gown Court judges . |