Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have have a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | English clubs have had a poor season in Europe — Liverpool , Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday all getting the heave-ho last week — and their standards have been heavily criticised as a result . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ Ethnic ’ Scottish rock has had a good decade , something Adamson has mixed feelings about . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | It is the aim of this chapter to examine these theoretical issues , especially the Keynesian versus monetarist debate , since theoretical controversy has had a profound influence on the attitude of most governments towards monetary policy as an approach to macroeconomic management . |
6 | Mr Bowe said : ‘ British pensioners have had a raw deal . |
7 | It has been demonstrated that the dominance of unemployment in these outer estates has had a growing impact on the relative decline in income in each of these areas . |
8 | Listening to all these personal accounts has had a profound effect on us . |
9 | Whatever the causes , the rise in part-time work has had a profound effect on the employment conditions and prospects of a growing number of workers . |
10 | Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people . |
11 | For instance , interactionists point to the evidence in the Kinsey report on sexual behaviour that over one-third of male adults have had a homosexual experience to the point of orgasm , and that only one in twenty goes on to adopt a continuing homosexual role . |
12 | Since the end of the Second World War , the development of two quite distinct European organisations has had a significant impact upon the constitutional law of the United Kingdom . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | We are just glad the whole unfortunate episode has had a happy ending . ’ |
15 | Although the national gallery has had a limited grant , it has , by various means available to it , acquired not only a marvellous new building , but many great works of art . |
16 | Only two previous premiers have had a single K. They are Lord Liverpool ( R. B. Jenkinson ) and the Duke of Portland ( W. H. Cavendish Bentinck ) . |
17 | Those normally at work but disabled by non-industrial illness have had a limited cover under National Insurance , and those who have never been in the workforce have very limited special provision and must rely on income support if they lack resources . |
18 | She held on tight to him , murmuring , ‘ Oh , my darling , hug Mummy , hold on to poor Mummy , poor Mummy 's had a terrible shock . ’ |
19 | • John Watson had a hectic morning 's had a hectic morning 's pike fishing topped by this 26 lb 8 oz specimen from a south Norfolk lake . |
20 | I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear . |
21 | Like the generals , the Colonial Office had had a good war . |
22 | 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 ’ . |
23 | Much post-modernist art has had a critical and contestatory function which is all too easily overlooked . |
24 | Although Chomsky 's description of language in terms of transformational grammar has had a considerable impact in respect of work on language intervention , the influence of his theory of language acquisition has been much more limited . |
25 | AN APPEAL for homes for six unwanted puppies has had a great response . |
26 | In another study Frost and Spence ( 1984 , 145 ) also argue that industrial restructuring has had a negligible impact on changes in employment patterns , either positively or negatively , and that these are anyway offset by ‘ very rapid growth in certain service activities ’ , notably the health services , to produce the different patterns of change shown in Figure 5.7 . |
27 | There is abundant evidence that our regional measures have had a significant impact on unemployment in assisted areas . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Himalayan skiing has had a long and painfully slow gestation period beginning with the activities of various Indian Army Officers in the early part of the century . |
30 | Following the ‘ Genius of Venice ’ exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1983–84 , Venetian sixteenth-century painting has had a good decade , with numerous major monographic shows . |