Example sentences of "[verb] had [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is when she focuses on novelists and poets that Cosslett faces a harder task , and she has had varying success with her four principal figures . |
| 2 | Dunlop rode the Honda which Gawley has had all year and the plan was for Gawley to take over the bike and ride it at Donington . |
| 3 | He looks as if he has had one facelift too many . |
| 4 | So anyone who kept their shares has had one hell of a ride and has still multiplied their investment 15 times , at least . |
| 5 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
| 6 | ‘ Our tour doctor has had one batch of blood tests on Jones but was unable to make an absolutely positive diagnosis and has taken a second set of tests . ’ |
| 7 | Our tour doctor has had one batch of blood tests on Jones but was unable to make an absolutely positive diagnosis and has taken a second set of tests . ’ |
| 8 | She is an elderly lady , she has had one stroke , and she has a personality disorder . |
| 9 | He has had two heart attacks and two major by-pass operations . |
| 10 | has had Two Face Commit technology for five years in support of that style of application . |
| 11 | With a background in both teaching and magazine work , Fedelma has had wide experience of full-time employment , but is happy that she ‘ took the plunge ’ and is confident her business will expand . |
| 12 | Ines Oppenheimer ( Mrs Newman ) has had wide experience in research and planning in London , including involvement in research on theJoint Docklands Action Group . |
| 13 | The other patient has had successful recannulisation of his shunt and no further bleeding . |
| 14 | Bowlby believes that we have an instinctive ( inherited ) need to maintain proximity to attachment figures , because this has had evolutionary survival value . |
| 15 | For too long , the state has had complete control of individual lives , freedoms , and powers . |
| 16 | The design has been created by Kenneth Carroll , who has had extensive experience in the worlds both of books and of newspapers — his clients have included Penguin ( where he designed the King Penguin and reference lists ) , Collins/Fontana , Heinemann and Pan , and he was also responsible for the most recent redesign of the Observer in 1989 and , when a partner of Carroll , Dempsey & Thirkell , co-designed the Independent . |
| 17 | ‘ Spain has had limited exposure to international contemporary art ’ , says Joyce Nereaux-Weber , partner in the John Weber Gallery . |
| 18 | But it has had limited success . |
| 19 | Directive 72/160 which has been used , particularly by France , to encourage the reallocation and rationalisation of agricultural land ( though less in the LFAs than elsewhere ) is to be abandoned , seemingly because it has had limited impact . |
| 20 | Japan 's second largest car maker , Nissan , is to cut its links with Nissan UK , the privately owned company that has had exclusive distribution rights for its cars in Britain for 21 years . |
| 21 | Anyway erm what sh when I said to you when you , you said to me last thing oh yes that 's right , and he , anybody that father 's spoken to who has sort of had this Walkman on him , which has had umpteen sort of erm batteries and what have you tapes conversations , now she 'll be back again next Friday er to pick it up . |
| 22 | He has had close involvement with the Diploma in Industrial Administration since its introduction . |
| 23 | More recently Rudolf Herr has had overall responsibility for the road haulage interests of the group , and until his promotion , was Chairman of the management board of Rhenania . |
| 24 | Lemar says Liverpool has had good play ? |
| 25 | It may be taught and assessed by any qualified Medau teacher or school teacher who has had practical experience in a Medau class and is a member of the Medau Society . |
| 26 | But if your son-in-law has had unprotected sex or is infected and has had sex with your daughter , yes , she possibly is . |
| 27 | Instinet is still small in London , but has had reasonable success in its five years in the US and , says Cavill , ‘ once you get the ball rolling this is the only game in town . ’ |
| 28 | He has had little difficulty in attracting many former Shildon players to turn out , including several of the side which won the Durham Challenge Cup in 1969 . |
| 29 | The International Stock Exchange has called for more time to implement the changes but so far it has had little success . |
| 30 | In the west it has had little success ; in the east it has been a smash . |