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

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1 As the statutory duties of medical superintendent included some of those applicable to the master of an institution , he was expected to have had administrative experience .
2 Some families in difficulties appear to have had long histories of problems , and often the parents themselves have suffered a difficult childhood .
3 As mentioned previously , all cases of portopulmonary hypertension reported have had obvious portal hypertension .
4 For instance , a letter to me from the Highways Department mentions a Forrest Road — Lothian St. cycletrack , which it says has had preliminary approval from the Transportation Committee and was ‘ shortly to be forwarded to the Department 's design and construction staff for detailing the works ’ .
5 The ones I 've seen have had startling cluster heads of tiny pink-red flowers , star-shaped on pentas and tubular on ixoras , amid bold , leafy foliage .
6 He hunted , mostly with peregrines , on the Cairnmore estate , including the Oa , Ballivicar , Glenmachrie , Leorin and Kilbride , and would appear to have had considerable success .
7 Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow .
8 Scaevola replies that , unless the testator is shown to have had other intentions , liability for maintenance is regarded as attaching to acquisition of the sum of money .
9 Can they be shown to have had historical effects ?
10 The owner claimed to have had reasonable grounds to believe the truth of his misrepresentation because the Lloyd 's Register had ( in a rare mistake ) wrongly stated the payload as 1,800 tons .
11 Tom Driberg claimed to have had oral sex with which former Labour minister ?
12 The role of the US embassy was also heavily criticized for withholding the evidence of at least one US military advisor who claimed to have had prior knowledge of the plan to kill the priests .
13 Naxos and Karpathos are thought to have had Minoan colonies too , and a very strong Minoan influence is seen at Agia Eirene on Kea : perhaps it was an existing town that was taken over by Minoan traders and administrators .
14 Fitzwilliam 's brothers-in-law also seem to have had ducal connections , although these are more tenuous .
15 Fitzwilliam 's brothers-in-law also seem to have had ducal connections , although these are more tenuous .
16 For example , some hunting and gathering peoples , who according to their scheme would not be expected to have slavery , seem to have had large numbers of slaves .
17 Beyond investigating who engaged in actual plotting , we can examine riots and demonstrations which seem to have had Jacobite overtones , and also look at more individual statements of Jacobite sympathy such as the uttering of seditious words .
18 Harcourt 's reasons for fleeing Normandy are not entirely clear : he was at odds with the Comte of Tancarville over the office of Chamberlain of Normandy , and he appears to have had personal grievances against Philip VI .
19 Some , like the Scottish Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , of which only a single item of evidence remains , appears to have had friendly relations with the National Sailors and Firemen .
20 Police worked with the Borough Council which owns the garages ; many were found to have had extra locks fitted , even though no-one 's named as a tenant .
21 Shilton is known to have had transatlantic talks with chairman Dan McCauley , on a business trip Stateside , and offered to put his money where his mouth is .
22 The claim is biologically nonsensical , but it seems to have had political significance since it is first recorded in the context of a diplomatic initiative of the emperor Valentinian I , intended to secure Burgundian support against Macrianus , king of the Alamans .
23 She seems to have had amazing powers of recovery : from being at death 's door in mid-July , a month later she was giving her husband cause for concern about ‘ making herself cheap ’ in the free-and-easy atmosphere of Baden .
24 Exactly what activity was being carried on remains uncertain , but it seems to have had commercial implications .
25 There has been extensive coverage of select committees ( especially in the Thursday programme as many committees meet on Wednesdays ) and some coverage of standing committees ( perhaps not surprisingly , the committee on the Broadcasting Bill seems to have had particular appeal for the broadcasters and 16 of its sittings were televised ) .
26 Chapter 1 looked at the UK in an international context , but the changes that it examined have had major implications for the internal structure and organization of the economy .
27 If you prefer an alternative approach , some aromatherapists and reflexologists claim to have had good results .
28 Some of the magnates were motivated by personal or local considerations : the northern lords , Wake , Neville and Percy , were concerned at the neglect of the defence of the northern border as Edward 's continental campaigns swallowed up all the available resources ; but Arundel , Warenne and Huntingdon do not seem to have had personal grievances against the king , and their role in the crisis still awaits a satisfactory explanation .
29 She does n't seem to have had intimate friends , except Miss Glover , and they did n't need to correspond , since they shared their house .
30 The buffet provided at this year 's Meeting with the opportunity to meet and chat with other members does not seem to have had sufficient appeal to justify another evening out .
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