Example sentences of "have have [art] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , the life-history technique has had a revival in sociological research , being used by those who wish to develop ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 2 | WP What do you think of the notion that much of the poetry produced in Eastern Europe as ‘ dissident ’ poetry has had a kind of easy ride because of its political context ? |
| 3 | He is over 55 , married , without education or job training ; furthermore , he has had a spell of registered unemployment , did not work full-time in the 12 months prior to becoming unemployed and lives in a council house . |
| 4 | Rusty Conway becomes one of Serena 's patients because he has had a spell of extreme absent-mindedness which made him incapable of carrying out his work . |
| 5 | Since the introduction of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 , this country has had a system of strategic planning and site licensing for waste management . |
| 6 | ‘ I had a fair amount to do with the mechanised letter office at Middlesbrough and other major post office buildings , ’ said Mr Ensoll who has had a hand in new buildings for Crook , Saltburn , Coulby Newham and Hartlepool . |
| 7 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 8 | ‘ Since then Mrs Miniver has had a number of other narrow escapes in life , as well ! ’ |
| 9 | On the other hand , they appreciate that the job has had a number of new tasks grafted onto it , adding to its scope and variety . |
| 10 | The invasion of China by western culture has had a number of far-reaching effects on Confucianism . |
| 11 | THE debate on the male gaze has continued ever since and has had an impact on feminist film-making as well as on theory and criticism . |
| 12 | ‘ Experience tells us that a team has to have a balance of young and experienced older players . |
| 13 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 14 | She 'd had a couple of little fumbling and innocuous affairs , nothing serious , and she never dared breathe a word to Georg . |
| 15 | They 'd had a gutful of official lies . |
| 16 | Yeah er attractive , anyway what was I saying , I was talking to her and she said that she 'd had a talk with Foxy and Foxy had said excuse me , and I just felt I just felt so paranoid because she was saying , talking about all the , how he 'd never been faithful to anyone and how , and I really did feel , would n't you feel awful if everyone was saying oh Sal , yeah , Sal , Sal 's making a real effort but but no she said |
| 17 | Oh , he 'd had a lot of silly nonsense to put up with , but that was only on the surface , he knew that really , and now that the children were off their hands they could be together more and she 'd be less hasty . |
| 18 | Ed told me he 'd had a lot of bitter arguments about this plan with Hauser . ’ |
| 19 | She had n't been a patient for over twenty years , since she 'd had the barrage of undignified tests and minor operations that had led to nothing but disappointment . |
| 20 | However , the survey of 3,600 people found that afternoon drinking was still the exception with only 6% of recent drinkers ( those who have had an alcoholic drink in the previous week ) having had a drink in licensed premises between 4pm and 5pm during the previous week . |
| 21 | Henry McCullough , having had a grounding in Irish showbands in the early 60s , subsequently joined — can you believe ! — ‘ Eire Apparent ’ in 1964 and toured extensively with them . |
| 22 | HAVING had a summer of fair-weather golf , competitors in the British Women 's Stroke-Play Championship at Southerness , many of whom had not had to don a sweater in months , were faced with the foulest of conditions over the first two days . |
| 23 | After the November 1989 general election Shekhar was considered by some to be a candidate for the premiership , despite having had no experience of ministerial office . |
| 24 | Having had the benefit of extensive discussions with many of our large shareholders it became clear that the proposals in their entirety did not have support although many features won warm approval . ’ |
| 25 | We would n't have had no dialogue with British Coal or very little dialogue . |
| 26 | … As appears from the decision below , the plaintiff could have had no certainty of ultimate success , and we are of opinion that it was not called upon to take the risk of having its contracts disputed and its business injured and of finding the tax more or less nearly doubled in case it finally had to pay . |
| 27 | However , if that election had been fought under some system of proportional representation then the Conservatives would have had a majority over Labour but would have been in a very substantial overall minority since the Liberals and Social Democrats would have held 160 or so seats . |
| 28 | But she would rather have had a handful of honest reviews . |
| 29 | Many believe he should have had a career in professional soccer but in those days , as now , top scouts were unaccountably remiss in visiting ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 30 | If effort had counted for anything , we would have had a family of Catholic proportions . |