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

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1 Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them .
2 ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately .
3 Micro Focus has been had an object-oriented research programme under way since 1989 to explore what it really means to have re-usable code in practice .
4 The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late .
5 Your husband 's been having a busy week . ’
6 And Jonathan would never have recognised her as the girl to whom he had become engaged , the easygoing girl whose only concern had been to have a good time , however much money it took .
7 I goes ah Shrimpy 's been having a massive go at Pete he 's threatened to punch his face in and all this business !
8 MELVYN BRAGG has been having a busy year .
9 The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity .
10 As Maisie and Mr Malik 's relative were clearing away the destruction ( the Huysan twins had been having a mashed-potato fight with school spoons ) , he made his way up to the headmaster 's study .
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