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

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1 The US Federal Trade Commission 's investigation of Microsoft Corp has had an air of unreality about it , with few people imagining that it will come to anything very much or lead to any significant change in the market , but now that the thing may be coming to a climax , what are the possible outcomes ?
2 The problem , notwithstanding the alarming nature of such rockfalls ( of which this correspondent has had an uncomfortably close experience ) , is how best to stabilise the areas open to climbers .
3 ‘ I 'm afraid Judd has had an accident — in an aeroplane .
4 Romanticism has had an immensely powerful impact on the modern outlook , and we shall see in the next chapter how it fed into theology at the beginning of the nineteenth century .
5 Anyone standing for election at local government level has to have an election agent .
6 Gary has had an interest in nature since childhood and is an enthusiastic supporter of conservation and environmental issues .
7 If all parties consent , and the guardian has had an opportunity to make representations , the court may grant the request without a hearing .
8 Statements to the effect that a particular programme has had an increase in funding do not say anything about the quality of the service offered .
9 Progressive has had an exceptionally good start to 1993 , said Mr Webb , with demand for mortgages currently running at around 50pc above last year 's level .
10 He says … he says one of the cars has had an accident in the rain .
11 A high proportion of affected subjects are therefore compound heterozygotes rather than homozygotes , although particular mutations may occur with a frequency of over 60% in certain populations and there may be close association with particular haplotypes , indicating that founder effect has had an important influence on the distribution of mutations across nations .
12 Manufacturers has had an increase trade
13 Since 1870 , Banks insisted , the association had had an office in the town devoted exclusively to the rescue of women and children .
14 Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time .
15 It must have been obvious to the jury that these witnesses were in a special position , one as the husband of a woman with whom the defendant had had an intimate relationship and the other as the sister of the deceased , whom the defendant had shot , according to himself , accidentally .
16 The year before , 1820 , Joss had had an accident with gunpowder , which , although his eyes escaped injury , disfigured his face , so that he looked ‘ like an old man of 60 . ’
17 It had been claimed that Mrs McWilliams had had an allergic reaction to the drugs and she had alleged negligence by the anaesthetist .
18 Environmental quality appraisals over the past 30 years showed that the nuclear industry had had an " inconsiderable " effect on the country 's environment , he said .
19 2 All except Ian Paisley have had an audience with the Pope .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Re-mapping of economically important areas was carried out during and after the War , and much of the subsequent work has had an economic focus , restricted in the main to the highly populated Midland Valley of Scotland , which , perhaps not surprisingly , contains the country 's major economic mineral deposits — coal , oil-shale , fireclay , and bulk minerals , such as roadstone , building stone , limestone for cement and agriculture .
23 Jessica Rawson , Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum , had to struggle for the gilded walls that she wanted for her newly redisplayed 2000 square-metre gallery ( opening 11 November ) ; traditionally the British Museum has had an austere , even puritanical approach to interior decoration .
24 On 16 October 1966 , Orton wrote to him : ‘ As you know by now , Loot has had an unqualified success .
25 Toilet phobia developing when the child has had an unpleasant experience in the toilet and has become frightened to use it ( Ashkenazi 1975 ) .
26 One assumes from this that there should be no repeat of the Investment Business Regulations debacle but , until such time as the Institute has had an opportunity to demonstrate that it can resist the temptation to create any further unnecessary bureaucracy , members are likely to be justifiably sceptical .
27 Since the mid-seventies , each Church of England diocese has had an individual or small group to cope with the victims of the occult .
28 Even a small council such as a parish council has to have an officer responsible for the administration of its financial affairs although this duty may well fall upon the clerk .
29 Diana 's parents had had an unhappy marriage .
30 He was an only child whose parents had had an unhappy marriage , with rows and infidelities .
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