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 .
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