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

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1 He says … he says one of the cars has had an accident in the rain .
2 Manufacturers has had an increase trade
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Diana 's parents had had an unhappy marriage .
6 He was an only child whose parents had had an unhappy marriage , with rows and infidelities .
7 In fact , none of the popular British names in the frequency lists in the last 75 years has had an unstressed initial syllable .
8 Christians have had an experience with Christ .
9 ‘ You go to a dinner party and find that three of the guests have had an elderly parent murdered . ’
10 Accountability — many of the changes in the NHS over recent years have had an implicit , if not explicit , goal of strengthening the notion of line management .
11 On the contrary , the economic crisis in the rich countries has led , not surprisingly , to a still greater preoccupation with national economic issues and national development , one aspect of this situation being that aid to the developing countries by the Western nations who are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) has declined as a percentage of their gross national product , while the various protectionist measures which they have taken in recent years have had an adverse effect upon the trade of the developing countries .
12 The crinoids have had an eventful geological history .
13 The children looked bewildered , but she added consolingly , ‘ That 's why dogs have to have an injection every year that protects them against that horrible disease as well as many others . ’
14 The feeling is that cheats have had an advantage and are also risking the tours .
15 Do you not agree that you writers have had an easier time of it than we in the West , in a closed society where your cultural values are protected , albeit at a price ?
16 The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat .
17 The Vice Chancellor , Sir Donald Nicholls , in granting an adjournment , confirmed that the liquidators have had an exceedingly difficult task .
18 I would say individual teachers have had an effect on people .
19 Security over personal property is another area where law and lawyers have had an important facilitative role .
20 Professional standards have had an increasing influence on the National Health Service .
21 The increased cost of subsidence claims has had an effect on the rates of our Buildings Policy .
22 Sviatoslav Richter ( DG made such a memorable recording of the piece , that others have had an almost impossible act to follow unless they too have had something comparably original to say about the work .
23 But although socialist or liberal-reformist doctrines have had an important influence in some cases — in the Cuban Revolution , in the Popular Unity Government in Chile , and in the Peronist movement in Argentina — it is a conservative nationalism , expressed through military regimes , which has largely prevailed .
24 Tomorrow we have to get up at 6.30 ( on a Sunday ! ) in order to go with the participants on the course to a commune outside Nanking , to do our ‘ Open-door Schooling ’ — Open-door Schooling is an essential part of the Chinese political philosophy of education — i.e. educational institutions have to have an open door and renew their contacts with industry and agriculture .
25 It is clearly one area where government housing policies have had an equalising effect .
26 However , no occasion has yet arisen on which the courts have had an opportunity to demonstrate the Convention as having practical effect in this aspect .
27 these values have to have an intrinsically prescriptive character , so that to know them is necessarily to have the will affected in a certain way .
28 No party has overall control , but the Labour and Conservative groups have had an agreement to keep out the Liberal Democrats .
29 Look , the unions have had an Equal Pay for women thing down on the TUC statute books since 1889 , and they 've done nothing .
30 These dramatic events have had an impact on European bond markets .
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