Example sentences of "have have a [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 | The SDA has had a wider set of powers than those readily available to UDCs in England , but it has used them . |
8 | Re-selling the goods , therefore , does not constitute acceptance unless the buyer has had a reasonable opportunity of examining them . |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | This technique has had a great deal of impact in computer programming where it in systems analysis and design . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 ] . |
15 | Blackburn has had a high level of female participation in its labour market for over a century . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Her GP informed us that she has had a further recurrence of left hemiparesis and , after investigation , the provisional diagnosis is demyelination . |
18 | 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 ? |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . ’ |
22 | 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 . |
23 | J. The port of Hull has a large rich industrial hinterland but the city has had a different sphere of influence , or market area . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people . |
27 | If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it . |
28 | This means that the ‘ brain' of the synth has to have a certain amount of waveform information from the guitar before it can determine an actual pitch and synthesise that information accordingly . |
29 | The general format and size of advertisements has been specified by National Marketing and must be adhered to ; it includes the KPMG logo at both top and bottom of the details and therefore the advertisement has to have a minimum size of 2 columns wide and 8 cm deep . |
30 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |