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

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1 The college has had the heart-rending task of choosing between applications from equally deserving cases .
2 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 .
3 ‘ If the host has had the normal course of immunisation , then yes , it should follow near enough the same evolutionary pattern .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 President Havel has had the dreary uniforms of the Communist state redesigned by Theodore Pištěk , the costume designer for the film Amadeus , much of which was shot in Prague .
11 Will he assure the House that he has had the unreserved support of the Opposition during the passage of that Bill ?
12 American unionism has had the inestimable advantage of being born in a land whose social landscape was not cluttered up with the debris of a feudal age .
13 During a time of extreme pressure on his own Government , he has had the added burden of the presidency of the EC .
14 In fact , his chances will not alter at all because he has had the valuable opportunity of leading two A tours and the grey matter of his leadership on the field is well known . ’
15 To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns .
16 Richard Feigen the high profile dealer who used to show the quick among artists back in the 1960s but who now specializes in the dead ( so much easier to cope with ! ) has had the bright idea of mounting , this month , the first Pierre Roy exhibition in the United States in over fifty years .
17 P.P.O.W. has had the bright notion of reviving that intersection this month in a show called ‘ Between the Sheets ’ .
18 Until very recently , the SAAF has had the praiseworthy policy of flying as many of its historic airframes as possible , and the Oxford 's restoration has been undertaken with this in mind , or at the very least to allow the aircraft to ground-run .
19 This chapter has had the modest aim of explaining only the kind of way in which it must have happened .
20 With the hassle , I somehow missed out on the pudding , but G assured me he 'd had the usual number of five .
21 However fantastic the labyrinth into which that impulse had led him , his first visit to St Matthew 's at least had had the comforting stamp of normality and reason .
22 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 .
23 What will the impact be of this on subsequent rehabilitation , having had the same stress of acute infarct ?
24 They may have had the unsettling experience of living in three different households — the original family , an interim family with only one parent — and the newly-formed stepfamily .
25 Many set the odds on Rank achieving his ambitions very low indeed , seemingly believing that , as Eric Ambler was later to remark , ‘ a policy of selling British cars to America with their steering wheels on the right would have had the same chance of success . ’
26 He must have had the same kind of feelings as my father had at the prospect of being sent to Fontanellato .
27 Certainly , an oil engine and clutch system would not have had the same degree of flexibility as a steam engine , even if a suitable engine had been available .
28 Ideally , all patients should have had the same number of follow up visits .
29 Their attitude was part of an exaggerated respect for the English class system , and they did not seem to realize that an open-minded person like Horsley could easily have had the same sort of meeting at , for example , a CND conference .
30 It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction .
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