Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have have the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last eight years , Messrs. Wright & Sons have had the contract for the maintenance and working of the North and South Staffordshire Railways . ’ |
| 2 | The first time in weeks that Doyle had had the chance to lazily watch a football match , and almost immediately the phone goes . |
| 3 | She had understood that Frank had to have the bike . |
| 4 | It 's only in the last ten or twenty years that people have had the time or the money to have hobbies , especially to do with music or painting . |
| 5 | The underlying inference was that Drew had had the pockets renewed because of some tell-tale stain . |
| 6 | The proportion has changed very little in the 50 or so years that women have had the vote , and the current number is actually one less than that in 1945 . |
| 7 | If Isabel had had the energy she would have wiped the solicitous smile off his face . |
| 8 | Scully and Sons have had the job for as long as I can remember , not because they are any good but because they are ruddy cheap . |
| 9 | In Germany , by contrast , technical education was well advanced , and Napoleon had had the foresight to create institutions of excellence which would provide France with its future engineers , agriculturalists and the rest ; but many an English self-made man would want to see his offspring succeed in altogether ‘ cleaner ’ and more respectable fields , making their mark as doctors , lawyers , Oxford classicists or even politicians . |
| 10 | It is only recently that Elizabeth and Helen have had the benefit of a full-time manager whose job is to provide support , supervision and leadership to staff working in their home . |
| 11 | If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman . |
| 12 | It prospered and expanded under the principalship of Sir William Dawson ; by the time he had completed 38 years as Principal ( 1855–1893 ) the student body had risen from 100 to over 1000 , and Dawson had had the satisfaction of seeing great strides made in both the building programme and the various curricula — not least in his own scientific fields . |
| 13 | It acknowledged that all Noricum 's weapons sales to Argentina , Brazil , Bulgaria , Jordan , Libya , Poland and Thailand , had been means of providing Iran and Iraq with arms and could have been prevented , particularly if Gratz had had the destination certificates examined . |
| 14 | It was an easy promise to make , since Stevenson 's had the contract to extend the New Treasury Building , which housed the chaotic Railway Office , which , in turn , was a division of the Board of Trade . |
| 15 | It is only justice to state that , while France has had the merit of inaugurating the industrial production of aniline red , England may , thanks to the activity , science , and untiring efforts of Mr. Nicholson , claim the honour of having brought this manufacture to its present high degree of perfection . |
| 16 | Whereas Augustus had had the poet Virgil to sing his praises , Constantine had the ecclesiastical politician and historian Eusebius as the man who sat immediately to the right of his throne during the sessions of the Council of Nicaea in 325 and exercised a decisive influence on the creed and discipline of the Universal , or Catholic , Church . |
| 17 | He set up Merson 's first with a bit of right wing trickery after Palace had had the audacity to take an eighth minute lead and then laid on Campbell 's stunning left foot volley , Arsenal 's third , all in the first 16 minutes . |
| 18 | Furthermore , ‘ there have been questions about his loyalty ’ , for Alderson has had the temerity to caution the service about an apparent drift towards paramilitarism . |
| 19 | With this sort of evidence in mind , we were invited to answer the question , ‘ Why is it when women have had the vote for 50 years , so few women are to be found in politically powerful positions ? ’ |