Example sentences of "have have [art] [adj -est] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Certainly we must hope that the government in its final response will take the arguments put forward by Alvey somewhat further ; after all it has had the best part of six months to consider them .
2 This means that claims by UK citizens under the Convention must always be pursued to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to obtain judgment , with the result that the UK has had the highest number of judgments made against it by the European Court of Human Rights for one or more violations of the Convention 's terms .
3 Ayr , Irvine and Kilmarnock Academies could each lay claim to having had the largest number of scholars who went on to great things but , before these grander seats of learning were established , several small , seemingly totally inadequate schools had produced a succession of men of whom the county can be proud .
4 It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction .
5 Using my 7 × 50 binoculars I was able to locate it at once , though I would not have had the slightest hope of finding it had I not been told exactly where it was .
6 Although few in the audience could have had the slightest idea of what the songs were about , their power to move was undiminished by the language barrier ; such was their skill in vocal expression that the audience could tell which of the songs were mildly comic .
7 It is evident that the priests who served St Martin knew how to jade a horse and to attribute its state to the saint 's intervention ; and if Gibbon had had the slightest suspicion of how the miracle had been performed he would have used a much stronger form of irony than a mere italicizing of the word itself .
8 She had had the barest glimpse of it , for it had vanished at once , but somehow it had left her with an uncanny impression that was not particularly pleasant .
9 IMP had to have the latest print-outs of the disaster .
10 Oxfordshire have had the toughest task of all against the championship leaders Glamorgan at swansea … they got some early wickets but then came up against a chap called Richards …
11 He points out that since the Korean War those countries with the highest growth rates — Japan , Sweden , Germany and Austria — have had the lowest levels of military expenditure as a percentage of GDP .
12 We have had the smallest number of new home completions in the city since 1982-83 .
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