Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule which imposes liability for unintentional defamation has had absurd results . |
| 2 | The unemployment trap has been substantially eased and the simplification of social security has had major effects . |
| 3 | This analysis has had important implications for older people . |
| 4 | The three spinsters of the English school have had full-time careers for most of our years since Somerville ! |
| 5 | I believe that he has just returned from his second visit to Nepal — a country with which this country has had good relations for about 175 years . |
| 6 | French state and technocentric-inspired planning have had great successes in both telecommunications and space ; but the British have had their acknowledged successes also — most notably in the broadcasting field , where a traditional consensual policy has been modified step-by-step and channel-by-channel down the decades since 1922 . |
| 7 | As in patients who have undergone splenectomy , alcoholics have a predisposition to pneumococcal infection and two of the current group had had pneumococcal disease , ( both with evidence of functional hyposplenism ) with one dying from overwhelming septicaemia . |
| 8 | Darwinian selection has to have genetic variation to work on . |
| 9 | Because of their vulnerability to heavy weather all craft have had special restrictions placed upon them . |
| 10 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |
| 11 | This rich , high-caste woman had had terminal cancer . |
| 12 | One Home has had great success with an art therapist who came over to take classes , combining residents from a number of Homes close to each other . |
| 13 | One person has had bad side effects , the rest of our callers think it 's wonderful . |
| 14 | The fiery Scot has had numerous run-ins with referees and linesmen since taking over as manager of Rangers in 1986 . |
| 15 | Crohn 's disease — three of 10 patients regarded as having definite Crohn 's disease on histopathological review had had subtotal colectomy before restorative proctocolectomy ( Table II ) . |
| 16 | Staunch Friend is unchanged at 16–1 for the Champion Hurdle with Hills after a fairly bloodless win in the ASW Hurdle , but the same firm have had good money for Irish raider Destriero , who is now 12–1 from 20–1 . |
| 17 | ‘ The entire Marxist tradition has had enormous difficulty … with the paradoxical phenomenon of bourgeois democracy — a regime in which the exploiting minority rules by means of a system of legally free popular elections ’ ( Therborn , 1978 , p. 248 ) . |
| 18 | When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds . |
| 19 | The other patient has had successful recannulisation of his shunt and no further bleeding . |
| 20 | Thatcherism 's new discourse has had consequent effects on the construction of subjectivity and consciousness . |
| 21 | He also complained that with separate houses for each office , each house had to have separate office-keepers , housekeepers and messengers . |
| 22 | The Labour party has had similar problems and has gone a step further . |
| 23 | Entry into the EC challenged parliamentary sovereignty ; the growth of direct action and extra-parliamentary politics in Northern Ireland and on the mainland challenged the rule of law and the stability of the liberal-democratic state ; the ups-and-downs of nationalism in Wales and Scotland challenged the unitary state and threatened the break-up of Britain ; the use of referenda [ popular and direct votes on issues ] revealed the crumbling legitimacy attaching to the indirect democracy of voting for people to parliament ; the conventions underpinning cabinet government were buffeted by a trend to " open government " that weakened collective responsibility and Cabinet solidarity ; and developments within the Labour Party have had constitutional implications at the self-same time as the Liberals and SDP have sought to imprint themselves directly onto the British constitution with proposals for radical constitutional change including proportional representation . |
| 24 | The Royal Navy had had ample warning that Jones was putting to sea again but , guarding the door of the already raided stable , was patrolling the Cumberland coast , while he made his way round the far side of Ireland and soon reports were reaching London of his activities in Irish waters on the early stages of his voyage , though they took several weeks to arrive . |
| 25 | Last night 's had covered smell and hearing ; this afternoon 's , and that glimpsed figure of yesterday , sight . |