Example sentences of "[verb] had [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Haughton area has had many new houses built with many more planned . |
| 2 | But monism has had many other manifestations : in the philosophy of Croce , in the one-form-one-meaning postulate of pretransformational linguistics , and not least , in some authors ' own sense of the artistic integrity and inviolability of their work ; in Tolstoy 's words : " This indeed is one of the significant facts about a true work of art — that its content in its entirety can be expressed only by itself . " |
| 3 | On the poetic side , he has had many good relationships with women . |
| 4 | Trevor Nunn was appointed Artistic Director of the RSC — their youngest ever — in 1968 , and has had many brilliant successes with Shakespeare at Stratford , the Barbican and abroad . |
| 5 | The Lido Palace has had many famous visitors , including Sir Winston Churchill who spent his honeymoon here . |
| 6 | For almost 300 years the Value of Neath has had many famous visitors including the artist J.H.M. Turner , whose painting ‘ Aberdulais Mill ’ is well known . |
| 7 | America has had many unsuccessful attempts to form a national repertory theatre , performing the classics of the English language , and one wonders whether it will ever be possible to get this going effectively . |
| 8 | The rift between conventional and complementary medicine has had many harmful effects . |
| 9 | Now you know , Roger , how that would affect an excitable horse who has had little strenuous exercise ? |
| 10 | The Exxon oil company has claimed that the massive spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker in 1989 has had little lasting effect on the wildlife of Alaska 's Prince William Sound . |
| 11 | Even by the modest standards of the Supreme Court , American obscenity law has had little measurable effect since 1973 . |
| 12 | STRANGELY , the national coach of the Irish teams down the years has had little direct contact with the four provincial coaches . |
| 13 | Wilks ( 1983 ) argues that linguistic theory has had little direct influence on parsing techniques . |
| 14 | Such information hardly gives the impression that the booklet has had much overall impact on the secondary schools in the borough . |
| 15 | Television is excellent for this , and Chomsky for long has had that great domain in which to show how governments and the big businesses linked to most television powers are very , very careful to be sure that few views are presented which violate the currently useful consensus . |
| 16 | Also more particularly because this particular bit of work has had such thorough examination by the presbyteries that it does n't seem to er justify further tinkering with it at this stage . |
| 17 | The interest of Jakobson 's theory , then , is that — apart from the fact that it has had such wide circulation — it shows both the strengths and limitations of the linguistic approach to literature . |
| 18 | Once in housing associations , few tenants have much choice of alternative landlords — and in many cases are not even eligible under the ‘ right to buy ’ legislation which has had such dramatic effects on council housing . |
| 19 | He has had this terrible illness , but he is full of hope . |
| 20 | ‘ I know Colin McMillan has had some good pay days . |
| 21 | We can only hope that since the incident he has had some serious therapy , both on his flying and on his mental state . |
| 22 | Jacobi has had some confusing moments . |
| 23 | She has a tough act to follow , though — Joan has had some spectacular successes with Bewey and Beth . |
| 24 | Sabrita , who has had some useful outings this year is also entered in the Hunt Race but may go in the Open where she meets Fardross , a winner at Enniskillen . |
| 25 | She 's a student at Dundee University and has had some brilliant fund raising ideas amongst her friends at the University and she 's here sitting in the front row . |
| 26 | Watt , however , has had some minor surgery on his ears in an effort to improve his balance and last night said he was feeling much better . |
| 27 | The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own . |
| 28 | Here the quantum chemical theory of bonding has had some remarkable successes . |
| 29 | Ash Sethi , Jason 's teacher at Holland Park , has had some unpleasant experiences , though last year 's tutoring group was extremely good , he says . |
| 30 | I am in the process of talking to the education co-ordinators at the prison about getting creative writing input from inmates for the project at work = British National Corpus of Current English — as the prison has had some notable successes with inmates finding new skills and talents whilst ‘ inside ’ , even to the extent of prizes and publications , which must be a tremendous lift to their spirits . |