Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The present building has had much rebuilding including restoration work in 1973 .
2 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has had second thoughts about its planned workforce cuts and realises that as it intends to hire 10,000 new graduates over the period to 1997 , it will have to get rid of 43,000 people rather than the 33,000 it announced earlier to meet its target of 200,000 by 1997 .
3 The rapid increase in the number and diversity of states has had long-term consequences for global politics .
4 It could even put a question mark over the future of England captain and selector Graham Gooch , whose fitness and discipline regime have become a hallmark of the current side , and which Gower has had some difficulty fitting in with .
5 Correction : our Moscow correspondent has had second thoughts , and now advises us that Hewlett-Packard Co 's contract with Asuneft in Siberia is worth $3m ( CI No 2,118 ) .
6 The hotel leaflet ends a few paragraphs on : ‘ The Newton has had many celebrities who have stayed with us over the years , including the late Harold Macmillan and Charlie Chaplin … ’
7 Cotswold Wildlife Park has had particular success in breeding hornbills .
8 He says the Hercules has had 30 years service , and there are 2,000 of them .
9 It will , of course , seldom happen that after the buyer has had some benefit , the contract is avoided by section 7 because usually by the time the goods are delivered to the buyer risk will have passed to him ; section 7 applies only where the goods perish before the risk passes to the buyer .
10 This will occur if for example the buyer has had some use of the goods and subsequently they perished thereby frustrating the contract .
11 In the 16 years they have lived here , the kitchen has had three transformations , all carried out by John .
12 Membership may be given if a writer has had three works recorded for sale to the public which have been released by a recognized recording label lone which is registered in the Music Master catalogue ) .
13 Lourdes has had two histories .
14 Ian has had this experience in reality and is all it with some explanation .
15 Increasing unemployment in the cities has had all kinds of unfortunate consequences : it reduces demand for such services as retailing , while at the same time increasing pressures on public-sector provision ; and social services , housing training and education encounter increased demands for certain activities .
16 Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over .
17 More recently Rudolf Herr has had overall responsibility for the road haulage interests of the group , and until his promotion , was Chairman of the management board of Rhenania .
18 To date , the Board has had three meetings , while the Committee has only met once , so that it is still too early to be sure how it will operate .
19 I do n't believe reunification has had much effect at all .
20 The reunification has had tremendous consequences for the general economic situation in Germany , but as we now know , private companies have failed to invest in East Germany to the extent they were expected to .
21 This way of describing relations of knowledge and experience has had profound consequences in the history of the conception of subject and object .
22 It is my understanding that The Economist has had deep roots in free-market philosophy from its very start .
23 But if your son-in-law has had unprotected sex or is infected and has had sex with your daughter , yes , she possibly is .
24 The national contract has had many successes and there is a danger these could be threatened by fragmentation .
25 With regard to the second , as noted above , teaching study skills across the curriculum has had some impact on thinking but has not been typical of the action taken by project schools .
26 Where , and Financial Times has had some increase in , in sits vac too , which is a high yielding er , category of course .
27 The Advanced Courses Development Programme has had two thrusts .
28 The industry has had 26 years grace for other forms of advertising .
29 The increased interest of larger companies in the contact lens industry has had several effects , including a move away from lenses made by lathe cutting in prescription houses from polymer blanks , to the in-house control of material manufacture , lens fabrication and the supply of finished lenses by a smaller number of larger concerns .
30 ‘ Paul 's album has had great reviews , some of which have said it 's his best-ever album .
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