Example sentences of "have have a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting in the third round could be fourth seed Boris Becker , who has had a torrid time in the build-up to the French Championships but who has a good chance to find his feet with a first round match against 579th-ranked French wild card Nicolas Escude . |
| 2 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 3 | The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh also has had a long involvement with the cultivation and development of plants with medicinal properties and we have our own Scottish traditions of herbal cures for a long list of ailments . |
| 4 | Home-grown : Edinburgh 's Royal Botanic Garden also has had a long involvement with the development of plants with medicinal properties |
| 5 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 8 | Today 's theme will serve us satisfactorily as a basis for our meditation , because water has had a long association with such images of healing , blessing and anointing . |
| 9 | Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist ! |
| 10 | Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site . |
| 11 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 12 | The new legislation regarding seat belt wearing in the rear seats of cars which came into effect on 1 July 1991 has had a downward effect on the number of rear seat car passenger casualties . |
| 13 | The horse has had a disappointing season after having won the Racing Post Stakes as a two-year-old and looking like a ‘ good thing ’ for even one of the Derbys . |
| 14 | The horse has had a disappointing season after having won the Racing Post Stakes as a two-year-old and looking like a ‘ good thing ’ for even one of the Derbys . |
| 15 | The mink has had a chequered relationship with us , but we must remember that the changes are of our own making . |
| 16 | The corporation has had a chequered history since then . |
| 17 | Durnin , who 's twenty seven , has had a chequered career at the Manor and was sent off twice last season . |
| 18 | The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ . |
| 19 | They anticipated a number of significant developments which subsequently took place , like the setting up of a local authority for the Western Isles which has had a stimulating effect on the whole life of the area . |
| 20 | By 1987 Wilmink was able to conclude that the Act ‘ has had a stimulating effect on the development of plans for the construction of bicycle tracks ’ and that ‘ attention to bicycle facilities in all stages of planning , design and maintenance of the infrastructure has become common practice . ’ |
| 21 | Religion has had a decisive influence on thinking about dreaming , and it is achieving a revival in many parts of the world . |
| 22 | According to Richard Porter , RSPB head of species management , " deliberate persecution has had a crippling effect on some of our rarest birds of prey " . |
| 23 | In another study Frost and Spence ( 1984 , 145 ) also argue that industrial restructuring has had a negligible impact on changes in employment patterns , either positively or negatively , and that these are anyway offset by ‘ very rapid growth in certain service activities ’ , notably the health services , to produce the different patterns of change shown in Figure 5.7 . |
| 24 | But there are now clear allegations that Prince Charles has had a loving friendship with Camilla , a married woman , for many years . |
| 25 | ‘ Elsewhere short-termism has had a terrible impact on the industry with quarterly reporting and the fear of doing anything that might affect the share price , ’ he said . |
| 26 | I just wanted to tell you that I glanced at your book while cleaning my master 's study ( he is a doctor ) and it has had a terrible effect on me . |
| 27 | Because of its widespread use in technical and scientific English in particular , it has had a strong influence on similar registers in other languages through translation . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Finally , one way and another Dean Richards has had a poor return from the month . |
| 30 | Although the next quarter is also expected to be bleak for Proteon — the near-collapse of the absurd European Exchange Rate Mechanism last year has had a poor effect on prices in Europe , causing them to rise — if Swan 's track record of success is anything to go by , Proteon 's results - at least in Europe — might well be expected to be turned round . |