Example sentences of "have had [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years I have had all sorts of lighter weight machines and I have gradually replaced them with either Wadkin or Robinson versions . |
| 2 | Although the user can not be ignored and the need for user feedback in the design process has been advocated , in practice we have had little evidence of any move towards user behaviour monitoring and evaluation procedures being adopted by commercial suppliers of online catalogue systems . |
| 3 | Of course much of the flow is contractual and employers and employees have had little choice about contributing to such schemes . |
| 4 | Women in most societies have been undervalued and have had little freedom in their own destinies , at sometime or another . |
| 5 | In Britain we have had little chance of forming an opinion , certainly as to the first part of that sentence , but as to the second ( ‘ the richest , fullest … ‘ ) it coincides exactly with my own reaction to her Wigmore Hall recital in London . |
| 6 | Even if the person or family have had little contact with a religious organisation a minister may be willing to visit while the person is dying . |
| 7 | Whilst Underwood 's somewhat arbitrary classification is now little used , the patterns which he detected , multi-strand lines and spirals , continue to be found by those who in some cases have had little contact with his original work . |
| 8 | Ethologists have been particularly struck by the complexity of the behavioural responses of comparatively ‘ naïve ’ animals ( that is , animals which have had little opportunity to learn ) . |
| 9 | Many in the first two categories have had little opportunity to work and build state or private pensions . |
| 10 | Further , the EC 's common agricultural policy ( CAP ) seems virtually reform-proof : efforts over the years to undo its worst nonsenses have had little success . |
| 11 | They have had little success . |
| 12 | Inadequate timetabling , the organisation of lessons during lunchtimes and instead of normal lessons or assemblies , the allocation of unsatisfactory classrooms , the poor arrangement of furniture for learning purposes , the lack of suitable materials — all these factors tend to discourage learners of community languages , especially where they have had little influence on the choice of their subject options when a community language is involved . |
| 13 | The senior nurse now acts as a support , resource and coordinator and a flattened hierarchy results : the senior nurse is the key to the professional development of staff who often come from a traditional nursing culture , where they have had little accountability . |
| 14 | Gywnoro Jones claims the Conservatives have had little concern for these people . |
| 15 | Needless to say Jeffery , and many others , have had little difficulty in showing how all such attempts have inevitably boiled down to the arbitrary moral predilections of the criminologists concerned . |
| 16 | Edinburgh graduates in economic and social history have had little difficulty in entering a wide range of challenging and rewarding careers in such areas as financial , industrial and public management and administration , the media , and a range of research activities . |
| 17 | Younger children , or those that have had little experience of playing freely , need a little more encouragement and the next example illustrates how a teacher was able to lead a small group without directing them too much . |
| 18 | These moves have had little effect on psychology 's general tendency to represent sexuality simply as heterosexuality . |
| 19 | Olayide and Falusi ( 1977 : 1 15 ) comment that ‘ past government efforts in soil conservation have been very meagre and have had little impact in solving the erosion problems ’ . |
| 20 | The commission claims that most of its proposals have had little impact on labour costs ( France , not the commission , thought up the 48-hour week ) . |
| 21 | R&D is alive and well in ICL today , but electronic media have had little impact on the operational information produced . |
| 22 | Those developments in stylistics which have taken place recently such as the appropriation of discourse analysis , politeness theory and other aspects of pragmatics have had little impact on this book , although they could readily be subsumed under the heading " literary language " . |
| 23 | Besides , there have been so many opportunities for growth in countries that do not require local equity sharing that they have had little incentive to try to build businesses in those countries that do . |
| 24 | Customers have had little redress against BT , or the Post Office before that . |
| 25 | Usually , those who have espoused it as a goal have had little interest in the idea of equalizing all the pupils of a school or an educational system , or indeed all the people in a particular country . |
| 26 | There are many thousands of us soldiers that have ventured our lives ; we have had little propriety [ i.e. property ] in the kingdom as to our estates , yet we have had a birthright . |
| 27 | Such has been the pace of South Africa 's re-entry into the world arena that Rhodes and his team mates have had little time to be overawed by the situation , which for a youngster from a small town in Natal is quite remarkable . |
| 28 | For the last year , I have had little time for writing , though I get something down on paper when I can . |
| 29 | I 'm afraid I have had little time to entertain you or introduce you to Hochhauser . |
| 30 | Since issues of property dominate legal work the propertyless have had little cause to encounter it unless they interfered with the interests of those with property . |