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

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1 I mean it came about because , and I wo n't name names , one member of staff for example has had an astonishing amount of time
2 It 's another blow for the club which has had an appalling run of injuries to key players .
3 She really has had an awful lot of attention .
4 Aston Villa boss Ron Atkinson has had an increased bid of £425,000 for Aldridge rejected .
5 Without this disparity it would have had an overall entitlement of 38 seats , and instead of winning one excess seat it would have had two list seats in addition to the 36 it won in constituencies .
6 Your Occupational Therapist will have written to the Environmental Health Officer to support your application and you will have had an initial test of resources .
7 Early on in the preparations , she had had an inexplicable change of heart and remained committed .
8 I 've had an odd feeling of late , and I do n't like odd feelings . ’
9 ‘ As a result , we 've had an awful lot of letters from people saying there 'd been an oversight on their part , ’ says an outwardly cheerful Simpson .
10 Mind you not that they 've had an awful lot of success recently but they are , really are a cocky lot .
11 Well , we 've had an awful lot of damage to the church .
12 erm , I would certainly stand up and and and er share everyone 's congratulations of what N C V O's done over the la past year , and certainly we 've had an enormous amount of help , particularly from the rural .
13 The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat .
14 The success of Gemini is encouraging … we have had an increasing number of arrests and a large amount of property recovered .
15 They 're people who are pathetic , who are sad , who have had an awful lot of knocks in life and I often think that one of the things that everybody in society could do is actually talk to them a bit more .
16 Britain 's pursuit of regional economic policies since the war , which by ‘ stick and carrot ’ incentives have steered or , more likely , encouraged forms of economic development to the disadvantaged regions , have had an indirect effect of the physical environment of many towns and cities .
17 I think science has always been characterised by periods when particular subjects have had an enormous outburst of activity , and we 're seeing that with erm immunology at the present time .
18 Councils have had an enormous amount of money through their hands , and have spent it in an equally enormous number of areas over the past 12 years .
19 Dean Rusk remarked to Johnson as early as 15 April 1965 , " We have had an excellent degree of understanding and cooperation in critical foreign policy matters from the new Labor Government in Britain . "
20 After all this is just what the theologians have been saying all along : We have had an innate knowledge of the difference between good and evil ever since Eve ate that apple in the Garden of Eden .
21 Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland .
22 These people have to have an objective understanding of both culture bases and of the professional implications involved .
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