Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But traditionally neither has had an organization capable of responding to commercial pressures . |
| 2 | Once each has had a turn , the group may spend a few minutes discussing possible methods of achieving any identified learning needs . |
| 3 | This has had an effect on the JCT , which has not only revised its own forms , but is working hard to extend its range . |
| 4 | ‘ Clearly all this has had an impact on profitability , ’ Gilroy says . |
| 5 | Everyone is delighted to have had a glimpse of this most elusive and rare of British mammals , and there are smiles all round as we move on . |
| 6 | I think I was very lucky to have had a year in school , and therefore to know that ‘ real ’ teaching was not like School Practice . |
| 7 | Women in second marriages are more likely to have had an affair than those in their first , and women who work full-time are , it seems , more prone to extra-curricular passions than either part-time workers or housewives . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't mind if the lads have a laugh at my expense , that 's all part of the dressing-room banter , but it does upset me that I 'm supposed to have had a row with the manager . |
| 9 | Faye had started painting her at eleven and was supposed to have had a blood glucose test at noon . |
| 10 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 11 | However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest . |
| 12 | However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest . |
| 13 | I nearly said as pencil skirts , but these have had a revival recently . |
| 14 | It seems that even the toxic cloud that rose over Seveso in 1976 has had a silver lining … |
| 15 | Most of the older officers have worked in pollution control for several years and many have had a number of years experience in industry , which , they are quick to point out , affords them an ‘ insider 's ’ sympathetic understanding of the difficulties and costs which arise in complying with standards . |
| 16 | Tumilty and Allister could each have had a hat-trick but nevertheless the team are within one game of league glory having started major rebuilding two seasons ago . |
| 17 | Let me tell you something , Mam : I 'd have been happy to have had a bastard and to have taken my chance on never being married . |
| 18 | Ten had had a hysterectomy and their postmenopausal state was confirmed biochemically by measurement of serum gonadotrophins ; the age of these patients at their menopause could not be estimated . |
| 19 | The campanile was the first in the city to have a clock that struck the hours ( although that of the church of Sant' Eustorgio was the first to have had a clock , in 1306 ) In its lower part the campanile is square , but it soon becomes octagonal , rising in elegant brickwork tiers separated by delicate friezes . |
| 20 | Her sales have grown with each title ; this is the first to have had a hardback . |
| 21 | Jean-Claude insisted to me more than once that to trans-pose Le Grand Meaulnes it was essential to have had a childhood like his own . |
| 22 | A WOMAN aged 61 has had a baby son . |
| 23 | He 'd loved her mother devotedly , and had married at twenty — surely too young to have had a past ? |
| 24 | She did n't envy anyone really ; but it would have been nice to have had a father , or at least to be able to remember him , and no matter how often her mother spoke about him and told her what he was like , there was a sort of emptiness inside her , and she was beginning to think there always would be There was a day in September which her mother kept special to remember her father . |
| 25 | It is a measure of the enthusiasm which he observed that , when Sadler duly provided a reading-list — tactfully headed with the ‘ King 's Book ’ , an episcopal compilation in which Henry VIII had had a hand — he felt it necessary to advise caution ; religious works circulating too freely had their own dangers , as Henry had recognized , when he passed an act in that year forbidding the reading of them by unfit groups , women , artificers and labourers . |
| 26 | More than 10% of those who are currently sexually active have had a vasectomy . |
| 27 | The Gruff 's had a marmalade tom cat that was always getting into trouble . |