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

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1 France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism .
2 Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed .
3 Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered .
4 Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden .
5 German cinema has had a low profile of late , with the most feted film being ‘ The Nasty Girl ’ by Michael Verhoeven which took the Silver Lion at last year 's Berlin Film Festival , and received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film .
6 Your life story so far , Mrs James , has had a certain lack of distinction .
7 Re-selling the goods , therefore , does not constitute acceptance unless the buyer has had a reasonable opportunity of examining them .
8 ‘ He has had a great number of stitches inserted in the eyelid and underneath the eye in an effort to keep it closed and avoid further damage .
9 If we follow Wimsatt and Beardsley this far , we arrive at a position that has had a great deal of attraction for literary critics , that the object of criticism must be the literary text itself .
10 This technique has had a great deal of impact in computer programming where it in systems analysis and design .
11 The best example of that is the Alpha 4 database programs , which normally sells for £345 , but for which only £49 needs to be paid if you 're a registered user — it 's gone from version 2 to version 3 , and has had a complete change of documentation .
12 This system , which is discussed in detail by Montgomery and Wallace leads to a fairly high number of accesses required to retrieve records from a well-aged file , i.e. one that has had a large number of additions or deletions since it was last loaded .
13 Indeed , ever since the Queensberry era began in 1892 every weight division has had a high proportion of middle-class world champions and contenders — men for whom deprivation was having T-bone steaks only twice instead of thrice a week [ see table ] .
14 Blackburn has had a high level of female participation in its labour market for over a century .
15 While it is undeniable that that system has had a dramatic effect of the development of the market it is incorrect to assume that it is the only one which is influencing it .
16 Does that mean he has had a drastic change of heart or is it just that he thinks , along with many of his colleagues , that there is electoral advantage in keeping this quiet at the moment ?
17 Nynex Corp 's New England Telephone & Telegraph Co has had a clean bill of health from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which affirmed the double-A-minus senior unsecured debt rating , and said long-term outlook is positive .
18 In the decade since then , the club has had a brief taste of the glory days but now is immersed in the worst crisis in its hundred year history .
19 Ferguson said : ‘ Lee has had a disastrous couple of years but is happy in the knowledge that while the illness is severe there will be no long-term after-effects . ’
20 Now we will suppose that the author has lighted on important new material or has had a significant number of errors in the first edition pointed out to him .
21 J. The port of Hull has a large rich industrial hinterland but the city has had a different sphere of influence , or market area .
22 Under the 1881 Cardwell Reforms , both were linked to form The Border Regiment which , over the years , has had a considerable variety of head-dress badges .
23 Taking this kind of argument it might be more desirable to improve the lot of someone who has had a considerable amount of resources , but now in old age has very little .
24 The college has had the heart-rending task of choosing between applications from equally deserving cases .
25 ‘ If the host has had the normal course of immunisation , then yes , it should follow near enough the same evolutionary pattern .
26 IT WAS not just the Stewart's/Melville players who celebrated their promotion-winning victory , but also the club treasurer who has had the impossible task of balancing the books this season .
27 He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago .
28 In the Neolithic period , totalitarian states emerged as a result of the reappearance of profound inequalities made possible by the acquisition of agricultural surpluses , whereas in the modern epoch most of the comparable states emerged out of periods of revolution and upheaval constituted mainly by a struggle for equality — a fact that has had the odd consequence of leaving all modern police states with official ideologies strongly committed to a non-existent freedom and egalitarianism for their citizens .
29 A company called Popperfoto , which owns one of the world 's largest photographic libraries , now has its headquarters in the region , and Central South has had the rare privilege of being allowed free access to its contents .
30 It has had the natural result of generally tending to increase the harshness of punishment — and consequently the size of the prison population and the scale of the penal crisis .
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