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

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1 This technique has had a great deal of impact in computer programming where it in systems analysis and design .
2 As most of you will know , Queens Park has had a long standing partnership with the Baptist Church in Doolay Falls near Wichita , Kansas .
3 Indeed , ever since the Queensberry era began in 1892 every weight division has had a high proportion of middle-class world champions and contenders — men for whom deprivation was having T-bone steaks only twice instead of thrice a week [ see table ] .
4 Cholesterol has had a bad press .
5 Spain by contrast has had a 40-year dictatorship which unlike those of Japan , Germany or Italy , is part of very recent history .
6 Re-selling the goods , therefore , does not constitute acceptance unless the buyer has had a reasonable opportunity of examining them .
7 The Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year Award has had a happier track record .
8 Nynex Corp 's New England Telephone & Telegraph Co has had a clean bill of health from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which affirmed the double-A-minus senior unsecured debt rating , and said long-term outlook is positive .
9 Monmonier ( 1982 , p. 2 ) believes that ‘ the digital computer has had a profound effect on maps , an effect that will equal or surpass the changes in mapping occasioned by the invention of the printing press and the discovery of photography ’ .
10 Although the recession has had a serious effect on certain sections of our Group , the result for 1992 was one of considerable merit .
11 ‘ The recession has had a severe impact upon the advertising market but by sheer hard work , backed by increasing readership we have been able to increase revenues over our last financial year — we would like to have done better but we are pleased to have held our own in a difficult market . ’
12 German cinema has had a low profile of late , with the most feted film being ‘ The Nasty Girl ’ by Michael Verhoeven which took the Silver Lion at last year 's Berlin Film Festival , and received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film .
13 On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers .
14 The flash has to have a manual override to be useful , as it will serve only to tell the operator when a photograph has been taken .
15 Mrs Postance believes that the heavy digging already completed to prepare the ground for the national curriculum has had a beneficial effect , at least on the teachers , even if the children have yet to reap the harvest : ‘ It 's focused our minds on what we are teaching .
16 Religion has had a decisive influence on thinking about dreaming , and it is achieving a revival in many parts of the world .
17 In the past this Association has had a good relationship with the DLO in Derry .
18 The horse has had a disappointing season after having won the Racing Post Stakes as a two-year-old and looking like a ‘ good thing ’ for even one of the Derbys .
19 The horse has had a disappointing season after having won the Racing Post Stakes as a two-year-old and looking like a ‘ good thing ’ for even one of the Derbys .
20 Psychoanalytic thinking has had a deep influence on psychiatry and psychology in the twentieth century , but this has been by no means decisive , and its increasingly fragmented theories have been subjected to continuous criticism .
21 We are just glad the whole unfortunate episode has had a happy ending . ’
22 The only English team in Scottish football has had a dramatic season , not least because a former chairman best not named for what are darkly known as legal reasons faces charges of stealing over £60,000 from club coffers .
23 I am sure that Arcic has had a new encouragement to continue . ’
24 The decline of British manufacturing industry has had a devastating impact on the inner cities where such a large proportion of the black population live and this has been exacerbated by racial discrimination by employers to yield high levels of black youth unemployment ( Martin and Rowthorn , 1986 ; Newnham , 1986 ) .
25 That experiment has had a remarkable effect on the performance of both pupils and helpers .
26 On substantive questions under the Convention , particularly whether the applicant has had a fair trial , matters of ‘ lawyer failure ’ generally do not result in a violation of the Convention because such failure can not be attributed to the State , which is the only respondent before the Commission or the Court .
27 ‘ Ethnic ’ Scottish rock has had a good decade , something Adamson has mixed feelings about .
28 This boat has had a general re-fit 1988–1989 — new teak deck , awlgripped hull and mast , new engine , heater , fridge , instruments , nav .
29 Since its establishment in 1945 the College has had a strong commitment to research aimed at improving management and the development of managers .
30 Since its establishment in 1945 the College has had a strong commitment to research aimed at improving management and the development of managers .
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