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

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1 THE Duchess of York has had her armed police bodyguards restored after fears she could become an IRA target .
2 A woman who left her manor house to the public in her will has had her dying wish denied .
3 CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter .
4 In contrast , if a wife has had her sixtieth birthday but her husband has not yet reached 65 ( or has decided to defer his retirement ) , she must wait until her husband retires to receive her share of the married couple 's pension .
5 A centre which has had its internal quality assurance system successfully audited will be able , if it wishes , to take devolved responsibility at a level agreed with SCOTVEC and formalised in a Quality Contract .
6 Mecca , F8b± , has had its fifth ascent from Robin Barker .
7 Where cognitive neuropsychology has had its greatest success is in areas where a detailed model of cognitive function is used to explain the pattern of performance produced by individual patients .
8 Holland has had its violent confrontations between Amsterdam and Rotterdam teams and their fans ; Borussia Dortmund 's supporters ' club had neo-Nazi links and the fascist Right in Italy have tried to infiltrate the ‘ ragazzi di stadio ’ , such as the self-styled ‘ Fighters ’ of Juventus .
9 That suppressed anger has had its volcanic eruptions in many aspects of popular culture , but never has it had such a lava flow in the realm of rock'n'roll .
10 This month Evans has had its second downgrading of the year .
11 Built in 1872 , the Victorian prison has had its fair share of history .
12 Although Celtic has had its fair share of scoundrels , none of their current stars , not even the rock'n'roll Pole , Dariusz Dziekanowski , have gone to such admirable lengths for a late drink .
13 But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport .
14 Over the past couple of millennia , the industry has had its fair share of problems , but modern processing techniques ( not to mention an increased tin price ) promise to extend its life
15 At an outstanding elevation of 1000 feet , the Fat Lamb has had its fair share of battles with the elements , and its proprietors , Paul and Helen Bonsall , admit that the garden 's survival has been something of a minor miracle .
16 ( Objects lose different fractions of their kinetic energy before catastrophic disruption ; for example , the 29-m stony asteroid entering at 45° has had its kinetic energy reduced by ablation and deceleration to 10Mton by the time it reaches 10km altitude . )
17 MTM ( speciality chemicals ) has had its half year statement to 30 June 1992 audited by Price Waterhouse .
18 Sophisticated network management software is needed to control the information flows and MBS has had its own system designed from scratch for the needs of its particular applications .
19 The Sunday Life , barely four years old , has had its own share of successes , with a sales rise which outstripped every other national daily and weekly paper in the British Isles in 1992 and won it the Newspaper Society Sunday Award .
20 From start to finish quality control has always been to the fore at Guinness Dublin where the company has had its own laboratories for over a century .
21 But the reality is that , whilst such liberation has had its positive effects , many people , particularly in working-class communities , do not have the opportunity , do not have access to either money or education , to make positive use of such a philosophy of personal liberation except in very restricted terms .
22 Scotland has had its full share of the ‘ cake ’ and I would imagine that the National Trust for Scotland is grateful for all the help it has received .
23 All this is taking place while the Prime Minister has had his present job and while he was Chancellor of the Exchequer .
24 DISGRACED TV evangelist Jim Bakker has had his 45-year jail sentence reduced to eight .
25 The former leader of the Social Democratic Party was recently sentenced to two years eight months imprisonment for corruption ; the former Socialist Foreign Minister , Gianni De Michelis has had his parliamentary immunity lifted so he can be tried for misuse of office .
26 RAPHAEL Callaghan , singer and slide guitarist who has played on the Merseyside blues scene for more than 25 years , has had his original approach to blues music recognised by winning a national award .
27 An Asian man who was forced to wed a girl in Pakistan has had his arranged marriage annulled at the Court of Session in Edinburgh .
28 An Asian man who was forced to wed a girl in Pakistan has had his arranged marriage annulled at the Court of Session in Edinburgh .
29 Mr Mubarak has had his military debt to America forgiven , and hopes for further rewards if Egypt emerges as the saviour of the Gulf Arabs and their oil .
30 Richard Harris has had his fair share of feuds with Hollywood actors , although it is n't always easy to distinguish exactly who is the heavy in his conflicts .
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