Example sentences of "have had [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the party with an honest policy and a swing to its campaign will be defeated by the party whose centrepiece is dishonest , and whose campaign has had all the swagger of a bedraggled old hen in a muddy farmyard . |
| 2 | It may be possible to delete this provision if the Purchaser can be satisfied that it has had all the Business 's contracts disclosed to it one way or another . |
| 3 | Mr Punch wishes to assure you that he has had many a good belly laugh from the magazine which bore his name for so many years . |
| 4 | All too easily , if you pin the whole plot on something that seems to you a tremendous novelty , you can find that some writer you have n't happened to read has had much the same idea before you . |
| 5 | Why Derrida has had such a vogue in America is indeed a puzzle , as Searle and others have acknowledged . |
| 6 | It is one indication of why he has had such a unique influence on the history of mankind . |
| 7 | Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , I am very sorry to learn that my book has had such a distressing effect on you . |
| 8 | They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think there is any model who has had such a meteoric rise . |
| 10 | No poet in the twentieth century has had such a conscious sense of his own work , or of the tradition in which he was operating . |
| 11 | He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 13 | Anyone who has had such a ceiling sag under the strain will sympathise with this week 's debate in the Church of England synod . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've never done anything that has had such a wonderful response . |
| 15 | ‘ It has had such a marked effect on our safety performance that we are now organising shorter courses focused on specific needs , for example trade centres and the sales force . ’ |
| 16 | No strike since Franco has had such an impact . |
| 17 | And , you know , we all lost a good friend ; I 'd had such a great time over those last two days working with him and with Eric , and I think about that time quite a bit . |
| 18 | And yet … we 'd had such a good few days I suppose I wanted to keep the mood going . |
| 19 | But after our day out when we 'd had such a good time it seemed as though you might care and that we could have a chance . |
| 20 | ‘ And when you got back here , everyone could see that Walter was just a shell , just a husk you 'd had all the goodness out of . |
| 21 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
| 22 | he was like being shy but he 'd had all the side of his fur like shaved , and I thought urgh ! |
| 23 | I 'd had half a tab at prayers in the morning but it had worn off by now . |
| 24 | If we 'd had half the help from British Government for crumbling schools we 've had from Europe , we 'd have had a lot more done . |
| 25 | He told her ‘ I wrote it ; and rejoice in having had such an opportunity of minutely observing the propriety of your behaviour . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't remember an England player having had such an impact on a team , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I can not think , ’ remarked Russell , ‘ Why laziness should have had such a bad press . |
| 29 | Others , who may not have had such a happy relationship with their parents in the past , take on care out of a sense of duty . |
| 30 | Why on earth would he have had such a thing ? |