Example sentences of "[noun pl] have have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to all these personal accounts has had a profound effect on us . |
| 2 | This in turn has made the South more competitive and in some cases has had a positive effect on salaries . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Good bibliographical control of Scottish geological thesis through the publication of thesis lists has had a significant impact on thesis consultation and use . |
| 5 | For instance , there may be an increase in demand for : owned homes , as opposed to rented ones ( which will affect both the market for dousing and mortgage finance ) ; prestigious foreign saloon cars ( in the UK the demand for prestige an cars has had a significant effect on prestige German produced saloon cars , the sales of luxury UK such as triumph ( now extinct ) and Rover ) ; private education , for which UK demand is now very high ; air inclusive package tours to resorts that were exclusive ( such as Marbella in Spain , the French Caribbean , the Greek Islands etc ) . |
| 6 | If so , bearing in mind that intention in this context is not the same as motive and that the tort may be committed without any ill will towards the plaintiff , it is likely to be a rare case in which A's words have had a causative effect on B's conduct and yet A escapes liability on the ground that they were only ‘ advice . ’ |
| 7 | To my knowledge , such considerations have had a major influence on the circumstances of many other homeless people in West Yorkshire and elsewhere . |
| 8 | In this time it seems that all other areas of the Lakes have had a new guide , and some of them two . |
| 9 | Pesticides have had a damaging effect on a lot of wildlife , including birds of prey , but for some reason this does n't seem to have affected barn owls as much as the sparrowhawk and peregrine populations . |
| 10 | Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland . |
| 11 | I think science has always been characterised by periods when particular subjects have had an enormous outburst of activity , and we 're seeing that with erm immunology at the present time . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that the growth and authority of employers ' associations has had a major influence both upon the development and the direction of collective bargaining in many countries . |
| 13 | Deborah 's parents had had a tumultuous relationship in which frequent violent arguments would be followed by tender love scenes . |
| 14 | Diana 's parents had had an unhappy marriage . |
| 15 | He was an only child whose parents had had an unhappy marriage , with rows and infidelities . |
| 16 | The Conservatives likewise were aroused by the prospect of a weakening of Labour 's hold on Scotland and Wales , as the Conservatives had had a constant majority at every post-1945 general election in England ; it was the Celtic fringe that tilted the balance in favour of Labour . |
| 17 | Interestingly , a majority of companies both on and off the zones considered that if anything the zones had had a beneficial effect on local business , local economic development , environmental improvements and public- and private-sector investment . |
| 18 | Diarrhetic shellfish toxins have had a disastrous effect on the seafood industry in many parts of the world . |
| 19 | ‘ Apparently Emma and Sophie are fine — bearing up very well — although Mrs Meadows says that she has n't done any more than to tell the children that their parents have had a slight accident . |
| 20 | Millions of visitors have had a nice day out and spent a lot of money . |
| 21 | As he put it : ‘ The planners and the road engineers have had a good bashing , but they have learnt their lesson . |
| 22 | The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ . |
| 23 | Although based in Cardiff , the Welsh National Opera tours extensively , and for the last twelve years has had a regular season in London too . |
| 24 | This has forced us to look afresh at the regular London days and , with the prompting of a number of the most regular attenders , we have decided to drop the June day , which in recent years has had a low attendance . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Whether commissioned as a promotional tool or not , the showing of such films has had a major effect on the outside world 's perception of Edinburgh . |
| 27 | ‘ You go to a dinner party and find that three of the guests have had an elderly parent murdered . ’ |
| 28 | These key demographic developments of the past 20–30 years have had a major impact on regional and local populations in the UK . |
| 29 | On the contrary , the economic crisis in the rich countries has led , not surprisingly , to a still greater preoccupation with national economic issues and national development , one aspect of this situation being that aid to the developing countries by the Western nations who are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) has declined as a percentage of their gross national product , while the various protectionist measures which they have taken in recent years have had an adverse effect upon the trade of the developing countries . |
| 30 | The art criticism in such books generally has a slant , questioning whether the country or places have had a determining influence on art . |