Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] had have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British authorities had had no hand in the affair at all . |
| 2 | ‘ I did notice the changes , of course , but I just thought the old lady had had the house done over for them — the parents . |
| 3 | Presumably the regret that Flaubert was n't more involved in life is n't just a philanthropic wish for him : if only old Gustave had had a wife and kiddies , he would n't have been so glum about the whole shooting-match ? |
| 4 | Appeal judge Sir Stephen Brown said the High Court had had no power to make a residence order and blamed Nottinghamshire for an ‘ unhappy catalogue of errors ’ . |
| 5 | One or two back benchers had had the temerity to chance their arms and had been severely dealt with . |
| 6 | Several teenage mothers in this book had had a home tutor and most had enjoyed it . |
| 7 | In moving these matters from commissioning in grant A erm , to this committee , erm , even if Social Services had had the money available , if they would have still been moved to this committee . |
| 8 | Delighted , Benn told a refusenik rally that if the striking miners had had a paper like the Wapping Post they would have won . |
| 9 | In In re X ( A Student ) , 11 November 1991 , Brooke J. explained why that Act had had no effect on the jurisdiction of the Inns , subject to the supervision of the judges , to decide who were fit and proper persons to be admitted to the Inns for training . |
| 10 | Would to God the dear girl had had the smallpox in a mortifying manner , then she 'd be lovely in the excellencies of her mind only and out of dangers of suffering from the transient beauties of countenance . |
| 11 | When she heard that a mere layman had had the effrontery to advise on civil service matters , she went to see the Minister on the following day to tender her resignation . |
| 12 | Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time . |
| 13 | Held , ( 1 ) allowing the cross-appeals ( Lord Mustill and Lord Slynn of Hadley dissenting ) , that , where a visitor 's decision was made within his jurisdiction in that he had power under the relevant regulating documents to enter into the adjudication of the dispute in question , his decision was not amenable to challenge by judicial review on the ground of error in fact or law contained in that decision ; and that , accordingly , the Divisional Court had had no jurisdiction to entertain the applicant 's motion for judicial review ( post , pp. 1114F–G , G–H , 1121G–H , 1124H — 1125B , H ) . |
| 14 | Prime Minister Jan Olszewski said that his newly-formed government had had no time to prepare its own budget , and asked parliament " with a heavy heart and a true sense of responsibility " to accept the measures before it . |
| 15 | Already in Carolingian times the imperial army had had a nucleus of fully trained warriors who served their lord in exchange for holding substantial fiefs . |
| 16 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 17 | It was not fair to say that he– parents had had no time for her or for Joe ; all four of the family had worked together , and , as the settlement grew , they had enjoyed churchgoing and Easters and Christmases with their neighbours . |
| 18 | In 1757 Postlethwayt went so far as to argue that the national debt had had the effect of transferring property to the " money-mongers " at such a pace that , " Since our debts have taken place , not near one tenth of the land of England is possessed by the posterity or heirs of those who possessed it at the Revolution . " |
| 19 | The young men who had grown to manhood in the past fourteen years had had no experience of war , and little of fighting , other than the kind that might break out between neighbours , or the kind they saw during their service at court , when a raid on coast or frontier had to be repelled , or the King 's justice enforced . |
| 20 | Here Brook interrupted , to make a dangerous claim that all 19th-century music was riddled with unnecessary repetition which current composers had had the sense to discard . |
| 21 | The long night had had a result ; he was back in control again . |
| 22 | One policeman had suffered a detached retina from the blast and one onlooker had had a heart attack . |
| 23 | Five patients had had a postmortem examination but only one showed evidence of asthma . |
| 24 | One man had done that , one man had had the power to call them all out here on to the moor , away from their homes , their jobs . |
| 25 | Many of the older generation coming from a rural background had had no opportunity for training and so were limited in the type of employment open to them . |
| 26 | For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester . |
| 27 | Anyone seeking temporary work beyond his own parish had to have a certificate ( signed by the minister and an overseer ) which acknowledged legal responsibility . |
| 28 | Then the American millionaire had had a heart attack . |
| 29 | Professional anthropologists , for whom Lugard and the Northern Residents had had no use , were encouraged to study and to recommend . |
| 30 | I offered the booklet to GHQ , Simla , but after two months had had no reply . |