Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [verb] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) . |
2 | Well one would have thought so , but I said to er Mrs you see , about the minibus , no not the minibus , the M S bus being available and , I said the problem was or maybe that we 'd have to have drivers who have had a P S V licence , or what they call it ? |
3 | Moreover , it suggested that foster parents who had had the care of a child for five years or more should be able to apply for an adoption order without risk of removal by parents before a hearing . |
4 | New moves tend to come from middle-class artists who have had the opportunity to absorb a great deal early and feel sufficiently confident in an educational and financially secure context to move it along . |
5 | Ho ho Keith , some wags at the NME have taken to calling MAW ‘ musicians against success ’ because — get this — those musicians who 've had the guts to stand up and be counted like Sinead O'Connor , The Farm , Carter USM , Cud , Billy Bragg , Lisa Stansfield , The Stones , Lush , Orbital and Soho are all ‘ failures that no-one 's heard of ’ . |
6 | This prompted Marshall to add a note to his trade card : ‘ There are several Persons who pretend to have the Approbation of the ROYAL SOCIETY ; but none has , or ever had it , but myself ; as my letter can testifie . ’ |
7 | One mentioned her skill at communicating with patients who had had a tracheostomy and another found that she could lip-read patients when nobody else could understand them . |
8 | One of the UC patients who had had an ileostomy had mild non-specific inflammatory changes histologically ( but no symptoms ) , but the ileal mucosa was histologically normal in all other cases . |
9 | Another type of specialist nurse deals solely with patients who have had a mastectomy . |
10 | Bohm believes that scientists who profess to have no philosophy of science beyond that of open enquiry , deceive themselves ; for their whole approach is based on unquestioned assumptions as to how scientific research should proceed and long-standing prejudices as to how the World works . |
11 | The Princess had said she particularly wanted to meet mothers who had had a treatment known as chorionic villus biopsy , which was a very exciting breakthrough . |
12 | Mothers who have had no part in abuse are often neglected during child-protection work . |
13 | The project is addressing this by using the same forms to assess a comparison group of 400 children who have had no contact with social workers . |
14 | Amongst those men who had had a job immediately before registration , the coming to an end of a temporary job was the most important reason for their becoming unemployed . |
15 | These same characteristics can often be found — with far less excuse — in well-seasoned travellers who have had the privilege of sampling far and wide . |
16 | ‘ It is especially high among transsexuals who have had the operation and have then regretted it later , ’ said Mr Rees , who himself spent five months in a psychiatric ward during his teens because of depression . |
17 | Some agencies are particularly keen to attract nurses who have had a break in practice and provide reorientation for new staff . |
18 | He had been at the head of the factional politics of Edward II 's middle years , and his rapid rise and precipitate fall typified the fate of others who had had the misfortune to enjoy Edward 's patronage . |
19 | Others who have had the courage to stand up and be counted include Miss Doina Cornea , a former professor of French , now on hunger strike in the ethnic Hungarian city of Cluj ; Mr Gabriel Andreescu , a geophysicist in Bucharest ; and Mr Mirca Dinescu , a poet , also in Bucharest . |
20 | Others who have had the misfortune to witness the headless apparition wish to remain anonymous . |
21 | In the one such study reported , 91 women who had had a hysterectomy were more likely than age matched controls to report infrequent defecation and to have consulted a doctor for constipation . |
22 | Women who had had a hysterectomy tended to defecate less often than the uterus intact controls . |
23 | Women who had had a hysterectomy had an increased prevalence of bloating , incomplete evacuation , and straining to finish , but no difference with respect to pain , mucus , urgency or runny stools ( Table II ) . |
24 | Mean values were not significantly different ( Table I ) but the older women who had had the operation were more likely than their controls to report <5 defecations per week ( 27% v 9% , p<0.01 ) and also more likely to report <3 defecations per week ( 11% v 2% , p<0.025 ) . |
25 | For women who have had no children at all , they are not a first-choice method of contraception , but can be used . |
26 | Sandra Cooper , 33 , midwife and founder of the Darlington Miscarriage Association , said : ‘ Women who have had a miscarriage experience grief but they have no record of their unborn child . |
27 | Sandra Cooper , 33 , midwife and founder of the Darlington Miscarriage Association , said : ‘ Women who have had a miscarriage experience grief but they have no record of their unborn child . |
28 | Hysterectomy ca n't be too bad : 96% of a group of Australian women who have had the operation say they are pleased to have had it , while 55% say they wish that they had had it sooner ! |
29 | Donald , who describes himself as a Friend of the Earth , does not himself hold a driving licence , but has taken it upon himself to publish a list of prominent men and women who have had the misfortune to be caught driving over the limit a judge , a chief superintendent , various footballers , actors , television personalities — in what he chooses to call his Hall of Shame : It is the number of celebrities we have discovered that is so shocking . |
30 | Labelling theory implies that criminals are powerless , passive victims who have had the misfortune to be labelled criminal , and have not been able to do anything about it . |