Example sentences of "[pron] has have the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 EVERYONE has had the feeling of the Monday morning blues , but imagine if that feeling was overwhelming and lasted months or even years .
2 These specifically make it clear that the clinic may not disclose that someone has had the test , or its result , without that person 's consent , except to a doctor , or a doctor 's assistant ( and even then only in connection with , and for the purpose of the treatment or prevention of spread of HIV infection ) .
3 At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond .
4 But , in fact , it is conscious discrimination by policy makers against the unemployed which has had the side effect of making the relative position of pensioners look artificially advantageous .
5 Most of the structural adjustment programmes ( SAP ) now in place have involved a significant exchange rate adjustment , which has had the effect of cheapening local currencies in relation to harder international currencies , in a number of cases by a factor of three or four within two to three years .
6 This situation continued until the advent of the micro-computer , which has had the effect of placing considerable computing power in the hands of individual departmental managers and their staff , thus reducing their reliance on centralised computing facilities .
7 Since 1979 , when the Government came to power , coal imports have increased from 4 million tonnes to 19 millions tonnes , an increase of 346 per cent. , which has had the effect of wiping out the coal fields of south Wales , damaging our balance of payments , costing the taxpayer £8,500 for every one of the tens of thousands of unemployed miners , and making us dreadfully dependent on foreign supplies .
8 ’ Anyone who has had the privilege of handling the book , even though he may never possess it , will not dispute the wisdom of the £13,000 it has fetched .
9 GILLIAN LEDSON , 19 , is a retail business student who has had the experience of being made unemployed twice in five weeks .
10 In many ways the challenge of qualifying games could have made life much easier for Vogts , who has had the problem of motivating his team to play two years of friendlies before they defend their World Cup crown in 1994 .
11 The supposedly irritable elderly person is often the one who has had the gall to defend against such ( often unintended ) ‘ put-downs ’ .
12 Old-fashioned or external sanitary towels , as anyone who has had the misfortune to make use of them will know , are dreadfully uncomfortable : they will not stay in place , they leak , and they chafe .
13 There is also no need for a person who has had the HIV antibody test to tell their GP that they have done so , especially if the result was negative .
14 The vicar takes out the four balls and the waxman , Mr Tommy Temple , who has had the job since 1940 , carefully cuts away the wax and the names are read out .
15 Anyone who has had the courage to do that is ready for the next stage .
16 This official was furious when it appeared that Oslear had spoken to media men about his determination to back Palmer and Hampshire , as well as Lamb , the only England cricketer who has had the courage to take on the cricket establishment .
17 I hope that after his next public performance of Odyssey , Simon Rattle will be encouraged to take this amazing score and hold it high in honour of this wonderful composer , of whom we know so little , who has had the courage to write such stirring and inspirational music , at heavenly lengths , in our time .
18 She has to have the money , though , because goodness knows what her rent will be , and Rose Macaulay says she will not pay a penny more but Rose will do exactly what everyone will have to do and pay what she is told .
19 The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected .
20 She says she has had the chimney swept , but the problem persists .
21 Well not as many , er there is the odd break in here and there but no one has had the sort of amount that I have erm
22 ‘ I think he will win , but it has only been when he has had the sun on his back in the last couple of days that he has really come on . ’
23 BILL KOCH 'S personal and business life is the stuff of a page-turning book and a movie , so it is fortunate that he has had the foresight to bring his own biographer and film maker into his campaign to defend the America 's Cup for his country .
24 He has had the opportunity to reproduce 430 of the 500 drawings which originally constituted that collection and to mount a touring exhibition over three years : for the first , and probably only time therefore , they will all be seen together right across the world .
25 Will the Lord President of the Council , as a fellow Scot , tell me whether he has had the opportunity to study in depth the implications of the ICM opinion poll ?
26 He has had the players in stitches over the past few weeks when we have relaxed after our training sessions at Lilleshall by having a game of pool .
27 He has had the benefit of a fine son and beautiful daughters , but there have been no more great plays . ’
28 ‘ We rarely have been in a position where he has had the confidence to go for it , ’ said Gray .
29 He has had the option of accepting council housing
30 True , even with those drawbacks , NATO functions well , but it has had the advantage of 350,000 American service men and ourselves , all of whom speak a common language .
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