Example sentences of "[conj] they have have the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They said it 's only in the last five to seven years that they 've had the technology to do it . ’
2 They had to satisfy the judges that they had had the education of an English gentleman .
3 It is not advisable for a person to tell their employer or work colleagues that they have had the test , or its result .
4 If a person does tell their GP , the fact that they have had the test will be noted on their medical records .
5 The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s .
6 One third of teachers say that they have had the use of INSET days to conduct their review : the same proportion have undertaken assessment of pupils especially for this purpose and have kept a diary as part of the review process .
7 Conservative Members did not wait to find out whether people would vote for that courage and conviction , but bundled out the then Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) pretty quickly once they had had the encouragement of a Liberal Democrat by-election win and the exposure of the divisions by the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East .
8 So even if , if they do go down with flu once they 've had the vaccination , it 's less , it 's likely to be less serious ?
9 So they 've heard a lot about what happens here and they 've had the opportunity to look around .
10 Now you might think well stags have harem groups and they 've got these enormous antlers and they could bully and er I mean a harem group looks kind of fascist kind of social structure you know when a male dominates female , but in fact field observations of how stags actually deal with their females show that they 're very tender erm towards them and they have to have the cooperation of the female in order to mount .
11 ‘ We 've played against sides from the Durham League and the North Yorkshire League and they have had the advantage of being able to include the likes of Ritchie Richardson , Clayton Lambert and Phil Simmons .
12 No , I mean , it would have been fantastic if they 'd had the cash to just get on would n't it ?
13 I meant to ask if they 'd had the go-karts nicked and I forgot .
14 No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation .
15 They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions .
16 I mean they at least they could pick you up cos they 'd had the log book .
17 I do n't think I 'd like to say that there were until they 've had the chance to find out .
18 It was n't very fair to feel betrayed by someone you loved , someone very close to you , simply because they 'd had the misfortune to die suddenly …
19 Because it was n't mine till they had had the stuff .
20 Since they 've had the marts , they do n't be keeping the pig days and sheep days no more .
21 It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences .
22 TRAINEES from a skills training scheme have been told their courses are to be chopped before they have had the chance to gain their qualifications .
23 TRAINEES from two NorthEast skills training schemes have been told their courses are to be chopped before they have had the chance to gain their qualifications .
24 Would we not have heard again a hubbub of outrage , complaints that the Coalition ought to have flattened Baghdad when they 'd had the chance , a chorus of demands that Saddam be taken out now …
25 Governments over the '60s and '70s , as I suggested earlier , have not had the capacity , even when they have had the will , to launch a frontal assault on the organised working class and force through a radical restructuring in spite of its resistance .
26 Whatever it was , the moment I saw the Parsons I knew them for British as surely as though they 'd had the word stamped on their hides like bacon .
27 Erm they 've like , as though they 've had the porch altered .
28 They become very passive but as soon as they 've had the baby they 're back to their old selves again and you think , God , is it the same girl ?
29 There seems to be a common myth that women forget the pains of childbirth as soon as they have had the baby .
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