Example sentences of "have have the [adj] [noun sg] 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 | ‘ If the host has had the normal course of immunisation , then yes , it should follow near enough the same evolutionary pattern . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Will he assure the House that he has had the unreserved support of the Opposition during the passage of that Bill ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | During a time of extreme pressure on his own Government , he has had the added burden of the presidency of the EC . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | P.P.O.W. has had the bright notion of reviving that intersection this month in a show called ‘ Between the Sheets ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This chapter has had the modest aim of explaining only the kind of way in which it must have happened . |
| 17 | With the hassle , I somehow missed out on the pudding , but G assured me he 'd had the usual number of five . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Psalm 48.12–13 bears witness to a similar procession round the walls of Jerusalem , though in the case of Jericho it would have had the particular significance of a celebration of God 's gift of the Land and conquest achieved with his might . |
| 21 | She had had the tiresome habit of subjecting her speech-writers to a sixth-form question and answer session along the lines of , ‘ Tell me Chris , what do you mean by ‘ liberty ’ ? ’ and it was not until the welcome arrival of a cheerful Denis at two-thirty in the morning that she could be persuaded to go to bed . |
| 22 | We 've had the odd difference of opinion , while respecting the other 's point of view . |
| 23 | We 've had the occasional report of undesirable characters lurking round the hospital . |
| 24 | She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going . |
| 25 | ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position . |
| 26 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
| 27 | Although studies of miscarriage from a broadly sociological perspective have been undertaken in Great Britain , none have had the specific focus of this study . |
| 28 | Health authorities in general can call on a wide range of hospital and other staff in the course of de-hospitalizing patients , they have enjoyed their own financial resources from which to fund such developments and they have had the lucky coincidence of a rapidly expanding private residential sector funded by the social security system . |
| 29 | More important , it has on several occasions presented to the European Commission solutions to technical problems with the Directives which have had the unanimous support of member associations . |
| 30 | By the time some pupils reach secondary school they can be up to a year behind classmates who have had the proper amount of teaching , Government insiders claim . |