Example sentences of "[vb -s] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In this the government has had a measure of success in that twenty-three separate sales have gone ahead , and most of them have been greatly over-subscribed . |
| 32 | Standing sex has had a bit of a bad press — mainly because it tends to be used for illicit love-making by young couples who have no bedroom to go to . |
| 33 | A fourteen-year-old offender who 's had three holidays in Spain this year at tax payers ' expense has had a court case adjourned because he 's being interviewed by the police on other matters . |
| 34 | Allchin began by admitting that Microsoft has had a problem communicating its approach to object technology and claimed he was on the panel to put the record straight : there are objects in Windows NT because there is an object management system in the kernel — its simply not exposed to users . |
| 35 | He is now gainfully employed in the centre of midfield by Alex Ferguson and the next qualifying tie being away from Ibrox , where McClair has had a problem with an element of the crowd , could be an influential factor in Roxburgh 's decisions . |
| 36 | LIVERPOOL midfield star Ronnie Whelan has had a thigh operation and is out of the Republic of Ireland squad for the World Cup qualifying tie against European champions Denmark in Copenhagen on October 14 . |
| 37 | At one point , Walter tries to convince his wife that he has had a story accepted by BBC Radio . |
| 38 | But if the gate voltage is clocked very quickly ( at tens of megahertz ) , the negative-going edges of the clock pulse produce depletion , and the positive-going edges ( which restore the previous status quo ) arrive before the surface charge has had a chance to confuse matters . |
| 39 | Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job . |
| 40 | After six months , when the new employee has had a chance to settle in and learn the ropes , make a thorough and honest assessment of how well she/he is fulfilling the requirements . |
| 41 | Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves . |
| 42 | Immediately after doing so , before her new skin has had a chance to harden , she is particularly vulnerable , so before the event , she ties down the door from the inside with ropes of silk . |
| 43 | Now that the dust has had a chance to settle , certain incontrovertible facts about the way in which Retin-A works need to be taken on board by anyone considering using the product . |
| 44 | Since he became Prime Minister he has had a chance — his predecessor had a chance , too — to increase women 's representation on such boards , but between 1985 and 1990 we know that their representation rose by a dismal 0.3 per cent . |
| 45 | Is she aware that the Feltham visitors ' report , which I am sure she has had a chance to read , said that there were only 24 workshop training places for 256 young people ? |
| 46 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
| 47 | It must be sensible to delay breeding until the mare has had a chance to prove herself as a sound , willing ride . |
| 48 | ‘ The Commissioner has had a word with the Home Office . |
| 49 | Buttonhook has had a history of epics — possibly 5b ? |
| 50 | Scolt Head Island , the most fully developed offshore bar on the Norfolk coast , has had a history comparable with the above idealised conditions . |
| 51 | Party Politics , who stands at 18 hands , has had a history of wind problems and before and after last year 's National he had two operations to improve his breathing . |
| 52 | Roscoe Boy , who won on his return a fortnight ago , has had a recurrence of foot problems and will not meet his engagement in the Puckeridge Ladies race . |
| 53 | Lacan has had a tendency to privilege the linguistic signs but other psychoanalysts such as Jean Laplanche argue that visual and other sensory forms of communication can function as part of a language system . |
| 54 | I even came across one stretch of the old defence works which has had a rugby pitch squeezed into it , with a glacis for a touch line . |
| 55 | She has had a hit song with Roberta Flack and worked on material for , among others , Marvin Hamlisch and Spencer Jones . |
| 56 | Another local resident has had a child who 's broken he broken his arm on the crossing when a car hit into him . |
| 57 | WP What do you think of the notion that much of the poetry produced in Eastern Europe as ‘ dissident ’ poetry has had a kind of easy ride because of its political context ? |
| 58 | I also make the rule that , before a person has had a turn , they sit with their legs crossed and afterwards place them out in front . |
| 59 | After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . |
| 60 | When the first person returns , the second takes over and the game continues until each person has had a turn . |