Example sentences of "[noun] have have [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 One of the benefits of making an acquisition has to be that duplicated positions can be eliminated , and NCR Corp has had to tell a total of 284 employees at two Teradata and two NCR locations in Southern California that they are surplus to requirements .
2 Paul Baker has had to do a lot of work on his own up front and he will benefit more than most from Lenny 's arrival .
3 But since gaps on the bench happen rarely , and since this will be the first chance a Democratic president has had to choose a justice since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House , the usual debate about likely replacements is under way .
4 Together they number some 500 , though the social club has had to call a halt on membership at 2,000 and has a turnover of £2 ½ million .
5 Together they number some 500 , though the social club has had to call a halt on membership at 2,000 and has a turnover of £2 ½ million .
6 We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated .
7 They said Hegel had had to become a newspaper editor , a schoolmaster .
8 Balbinder had had to do a lot of puzzles .
9 Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public .
10 The partnership does not always go as planned ; South Glamorgan county council has had to buy a train to keep a loss-making suburban line going .
11 As a young director working with all-male crews , Karen has had to confront a high level of overt sexism , something the grant-aided sector does n't necessarily prepare you for .
12 All of a sudden , the morning gathering at Mrs Tiverton 's had lost a little of its terror , for just at this instant it seemed less threatening than Mr Aycliffe 's serious face , demanding of her this fatal choice .
13 The whooper and the Be wick 's had survived a 2,300-mile flight from Siberia , families arriving together .
14 Leeds failed to recapture the form which swept them to the title in 1991–92 and , according to national newspaper reports , Wilkinson has had to endure a torrent of abuse .
15 To my mum who along with my dad helped me my daughter , who I 'm very proud of as now she 's started taking greater interest in G M B. To my mum who at the moment does n't enjoy the best of health , who over the years has had to endure a daughter who , er , on some occasions has not been a very great help to her , has guided me through very difficult times , as mums always do .
16 The composers have had to learn a completely new keyboard layout , ( with the standard QWERTY arrangement ) .
17 And to make a successful television career , Sue Lawley has had to tread a very careful path of being acceptable ( mainly to men ) as both a woman and a ‘ professional ’ .
18 Ignoring accrued interest , the price that a bond has to have to give a yield to maturity of 9 per cent is given by .
19 He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act .
20 For example , in Conservative Ealing , tenants have had to face a 100 per cent .
21 Existing studies have had to use a range of previous estimates based upon differing methodological approaches and data samples , and often more than twenty years old .
22 As we shall see in the next chapter , the consequence of this stiffness is that timber has had to evolve a work of fracture mechanism which is quite different and a good deal more ingenious .
23 Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership .
24 Miss Danziger was not an ugly woman but the Colonel had had to take a long hard look to discover her good features : her bone structure ; strong fair hair streaked with less fair strands ; her pale complexion , unpainted .
25 General practitioners have had to bear a much heavier load than even the most pessimistic were expecting .
26 So the reality is that , in the last seven months , the Taylors have had to make a radical reassessment of family expectations .
27 Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish .
28 See our problem page maybe one of our NCT mums has had to handle a similar problem .
29 Since 1980 DLOs have had to make a return of 5 per cent on capital .
30 Because of improvements such as these , St. Peter 's had become a Grade 1 hospital under the EMS scheme , and in view of the additional duties falling on the shoulders of their medical officer , Dean Pollard 's salary was increased from £350 to £450 per annum .
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