Example sentences of "[noun sg] have had [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The relative prominence of the telecommunications , television and European primus inter pares aspects of the French space programme have had another important consequence .
2 Whatever the outcome of the Bridgewater case , the miscarriages of justice already brought to light have had serious consequences for disorder in prisons and will continue to ferment disorder until a more effective appeals system is devised .
3 SCUM have had nice little fixtures .
4 Unlike Leavis 's , Winters 's deconstruction of tradition proved too extreme to have even a temporary lodgement in the academy , though his readings of sixteenth-century poetry have had some influence , and a theorist such as Gerald Graff acknowledges a debt to Winters , who was his teacher .
5 In general , microorganisms present at the site have had sufficient opportunity to adapt to the contaminants and have degraded the waste to some extent .
6 For the protests which started in the 1970s over both the reprocessing operation at Sellafield and the ultimate disposal of nuclear waste have had one fundamental effect on the whole nuclear industry .
7 ESTATE agents valuing every house in Britain for the new council tax have had many of their estimates thrown out by the Inland Revenue .
8 In formal education , the pressures of life under apartheid have had contradictory impacts on women .
9 Those developments in stylistics which have taken place recently such as the appropriation of discourse analysis , politeness theory and other aspects of pragmatics have had little impact on this book , although they could readily be subsumed under the heading " literary language " .
10 Lorenz , whose popular observational studies of animal behaviour have had extensive influence on human ethnological studies , displays a more general form of this ambiguity , when he connects nature itself , and the beauty and pleasure he finds in it , with femininity .
11 In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow .
12 Twenty-five per cent ( 191 ) of the men who have had sex in our sample have had 10 or more sexual partners .
13 Me and my sore back have had several meetings now with Fielding 's moneymen .
14 The growing pressures on the railways for cost-cutting and rationalization have had profound consequences for industrial relations .
15 Bowe 's trainer Eddie Futch , 80 , who 's probably seen more fights than even most men of his age have had hot dinners , expects it to be one of the best he 's been involved with .
16 The discussion so far has shown that the structural changes in the rural economy have had important spatial implication .
17 Traditionally , some occupations such as accountancy and engineering have had non-graduate entry routes , through on-the-job or technician education , though the general drift is towards all-graduate professions .
18 Changes in the countryside have had different implications for the rural population depending on : nature of the terrain ; extent and type of capitalist penetration ; existence and extent of agrarian reform ; access to government assistance ; and levels of peasant organisation .
19 This is a common occurrence in the annual league championships and it looks as though the Belfast & District have had enough .
20 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 .
21 All the key people that Reagan has appointed to protect the US environment have had close financial involvement with companies that are polluting and destroying the environment .
22 Because of their vulnerability to heavy weather all craft have had special restrictions placed upon them .
23 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 .
24 Up to the present all patients treated with cyclosporin for ulcerative colitis have had severe , refractory disease and there are no published controlled trials .
25 I think the bottom line of this issue , frankly , is that the U S er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now , had there been any question of G Tec 's behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now , and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that G Tec has not been a subject of this investigation , that G Tec 's behaviour has been above reproach , and as far as his comments go we we do n't really know what context to put them in .
26 Surgeons at Belfast 's Royal Victoria Hospital have had ample opportunity to study the effect of these projectiles .
27 I 've backed more shows than you lot have had hot dinners and I 've never seen anything like this .
28 Ten City have had three massive club hits without selling any records , and now they 've got a chart hit .
29 City have had more than their fair share of great players : Gordon Banks , Peter Shilton , Gary Lineker , Alan Smith , Gary McAllister , Mike Newell — pity they sold 'em all !
30 and a number have had two or three on time saver with the incentive
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