Example sentences of "[adj] have had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each has had a significant impact on the other . |
| 2 | This has had a devastating economic effect — but has failed to change most Serbs ' minds . |
| 3 | Initial results from the first phase of the research ( summer 1986 ) show that the police are sticking very closely to the new rules and that this has had a major impact in the way CID officers conduct investigations . |
| 4 | This has had a reciprocal impact on RX 's internal functioning ; reducing what were previously sharp breaks in the RX value chain has consolidated the iden-tification of subsequent workgroups as ‘ customers ’ with a degree of choice within the extended RX production network . |
| 5 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |
| 6 | This has had a profound effect on systems analysis and database design . |
| 7 | Whether the costs savings are very considerable is hard to say but there have undoubtedly been some sayings ; what is clear , however , is that costs have been whittled down and that this has had a widespread effect on the production of newspapers in Britain . |
| 8 | This has had an unfortunate result . |
| 9 | Although the station was non-operational for a few years following the disaster it was fully operational again by April 1979 and since 1985 has had a modern Tyne class lifeboat on station to cover the wide stretch of north-east facing coast around the port . |
| 10 | The majority , both white and black , come from working-class backgrounds , a few have had a middle-class upbringing and education . |
| 11 | The new legislation regarding seat belt wearing in the rear seats of cars which came into effect on 1 July 1991 has had a downward effect on the number of rear seat car passenger casualties . |
| 12 | RECENT observations suggest that the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991 has had a considerable effect on ozone concentrations in the tropical stratosphere ( refs 1 , 2 , and J. W. Waters , personal communication ) . |
| 13 | Indeterminate colitis — six patients had a subtotal colectomy before diagnosis , three having had an ileorectal anastomosis and three an ileostomy with a retained rectal stump . |
| 14 | The engraving on the outer face of the Mezine example , while decorative , is also likely to have had a symbolic meaning . |
| 15 | This is likely to have had a great influence on the goals and , in particular , the mission statement of the organisation which were discussed in Section 2.2 . |
| 16 | Nevertheless some of the law in the Pactus is likely to have had a royal origin . |
| 17 | An elderly man living alone , for example , was 5.74 times more likely to have had a home-help visit during the previous month than an elderly couple , after allowing for the different average disability levels of the two types of household . |
| 18 | Elderly people living with other , younger people were much less likely to have had a home-help visit in the last month than households containing only elderly people . |
| 19 | Daytime and mixed day and night wetters have certain aetiological differences from night wetters , although there is much overlap : they are more likely to have had an adverse perinatal history , their bladder capacity tends to be smaller , and they are more likely to suffer urinary tract infection . |
| 20 | Of these , only three had had a continuous hospital admission lasting more than five years . |
| 21 | Some workers turned to Palestinian unions , although these had had a chequered career . |
| 22 | Although these have had a great deal of success in calculations of nuclear masses and shapes , recent laser experiments have produced some results that do not agree with them . |
| 23 | Most ma–or roads now have cycle facilities and it seems likely that these have had a positive effect on the road safety of cyclists . |
| 24 | Too often the leadership 's victories over the left have had an unsavoury , pyrrhic quality . |
| 25 | Here , the introduction of the hybrid maize variety SR 52 has had a dramatic effect on yields of maize . |
| 26 | Ian and Barbara meet — the latter having had a difficult time avoiding Nero 's amorous advances — and with the help of Tavius ( who is a Christian ) , they manage to escape from the city . |
| 27 | The new ethos of the '80s had had a positive effect on the character of the people , just as the ethos of the late ‘ 70s had a severely negative effect . |
| 28 | The great thing is that everybody has been to the cinema , and many have had a strange experience there . ’ |
| 29 | Just as the barbarians themselves seem to have changed their policies about settlement , so too the Romans are unlikely to have had a monolithic system for settling the barbarians within the Roman Empire . |
| 30 | The patients in this study were older than the controls but that is unlikely to have had a significant effect on our results . |