Example sentences of "have [adv] have the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was many years ago when they were still juveniles and one day she disappeared and none of the eagles there has since had the full power of a Callanish eagle . |
| 2 | Worse for them , whether they go on backing Mr Gorbachev or opt for some other tough guy , the rattle of gunfire has not had the intended effect . |
| 3 | ‘ At least he is symmetrical but his left leg has not had the same exercise so it 's not the same size as his right . ’ |
| 4 | Few people can appreciate Basil 's contribution for none of the present generation started with him in the County , and none of those who have come and gone over the years has ever had the same influence with the teachers for he had a diffidence and a modesty which helped then , a lot . |
| 5 | From the famous cloth markets , which first identified the city as a bargain-hunters ' paradise , to the splendour of the Victorian shopping arcades , Leeds has always had the leading edge in retail . |
| 6 | has also had the added responsibility of overseeing the work of a multitude of outside contractors during the investment programme . |
| 7 | But the SA Rugby Board has traditionally had the major slice of South Africa 's rugby cake , built as this has been on white wealth , sponsorship , patronage , assets , expertise , media coverage and the rest . |
| 8 | Any examination of the history of ‘ history , will demonstrate that it has never had the immediate certainty that is implied in the all too frequent invocation of , concrete history ’ . |
| 9 | Where the wife takes the conveyance and requires it to be conveyed to herself and the new husband , she should convey as " trustee " ( thus implying that she herself has not encumbered the property ) as she has never had the legal title vested in her absolutely . |
| 10 | ON WEDNESDAY , Christies ' two star lots are Canaletto 's view of the Old Horse Guards , wonderfully fresh and the most significant of the artist 's London paintings , while Rembrandt 's jewel-like Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol of Bel has never had the slightest sniff from the Rembrandt Research Project , which has whittled 1,000 ‘ Rembrandt 's ’ down to 300 and whittles on remorselessly . |
| 11 | And he claims he has never had the slightest desire to leave her . |
| 12 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 13 | Though I 'd just had the official report , I wanted the inside story . |
| 14 | He 'd always had the nicest smile , open and boyish , but she 'd forgotten the way his hazel eyes sparkled with greenish lights , perhaps because she 'd never seen him so tanned before . |
| 15 | It is ironic that Kent , such a devoted follower of his master , should have only had the fifth edition , and not the ‘ most nearly perfect of all ’ on which to base his teaching . |
| 16 | He had only had the single season at Wakefield when the approach came . |
| 17 | Arthur had obviously had the same idea . |
| 18 | The hostility to alleged traitors took extreme form in the murders of Sudbury , Hales and Cavendish , and equally strong was the dislike of the King 's uncle , John of Gaunt — his palace of the Savoy was burned down ( although it is uncertain whether the Kentishmen or the Londoners played the leading part in this ) and he would probably have shared the fate of Sudbury and the others if he had not had the good fortune to be in the North negotiating with the Scots . |
| 19 | We do not know whether the process would have reached its conclusion if Mr. Thorpe had not had the alternative course open to him . |
| 20 | The first is based squarely on the suggestion that it is simply an illusion to suppose that any truth , or any significant role in social explanation need be assigned to counterfactuals of the form , ‘ If individual X had not had the psychological characteristic a , they could not have performed action b and event p would not have occurred . ’ |
| 21 | She relaxed , then became aware of disappointment from the knowledge that he had not had the slightest intention of kissing her after all . |
| 22 | ‘ Why , I 've just had the strangest thought . ’ |
| 23 | But they 've already had the best part of a week in which to forget . ’ |
| 24 | there are representation which I do need to put forward , er we 've already had the supplementary report outlining the subject on |
| 25 | We 've already had the National Front and the Liberals round , and they were very interesting , so now it 's your turn . |
| 26 | However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) . |
| 27 | I do n't think I 've ever had the real flu . |
| 28 | Not that I 've ever had the slightest sympathy from you . |
| 29 | Wells had also had the intense satisfaction of beating the Americans in winning the IAAF Golden Sprint title in Berlin . |
| 30 | I had my problem hamstring and knew that I had n't had the necessary training to run a 200 metres after a 100 and a relay . |