Example sentences of "[noun] had have no [noun] " in BNC.

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1 During the meeting Yassir Arafat , the PLO chair , stressed that the PLO had had no alternative but to support Iraq during the Gulf war .
2 The boat had had no luck on the West coast .
3 She goes on to say that the justices came to the view that the justice on the Friday had had no power to remand Mr. Bell in custody until the Monday , as the remand did not fall within the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 and that , accordingly , they no longer had any jurisdiction to hear the matter .
4 Modernism had had no truck with narrative momentum ; and Eliot 's Post-war plays , which began with The Cocktail Party ( 1950 ) , were always more compelling as moral analysis than as plot .
5 I offered the booklet to GHQ , Simla , but after two months had had no reply .
6 They had met just three months ago , yet now it seemed that the whole of her life had been crammed into those few fleeting weeks ; as if her living had had no meaning before they met and her future would have no substance if ever he left her .
7 Half an hour after the intruders had gone , a horde of volunteers arrived — since ‘ the Forty-five ’ Scotland had had no militia — and a cannon , dragged from the town on to the Point of St Mary 's Isle , fiercely engaged a supposed ship which turned out to be a rock .
8 It was not fair to say that he– parents had had no time for her or for Joe ; all four of the family had worked together , and , as the settlement grew , they had enjoyed churchgoing and Easters and Christmases with their neighbours .
9 In In re X ( A Student ) , 11 November 1991 , Brooke J. explained why that Act had had no effect on the jurisdiction of the Inns , subject to the supervision of the judges , to decide who were fit and proper persons to be admitted to the Inns for training .
10 He said the Chancellor had had no choice but to put interest rates up last week .
11 Mr Portillo said the Chancellor had had no option but to increase taxes to curb ballooning Government borrowing .
12 On the facts of the case the rules of natural justice had been broken because the constable had had no opportunity to comment upon the allegations made against him .
13 Gina and Nigel had had no guests for a year now .
14 It was already February , and Faye had had no problems since her return from hospital on Boxing Day .
15 Some 45 relief workers were the only foreigners remaining in the city , and the UN had had no representation in Mogadishu for some months .
16 It also noted that the Brady plan had been applied on a slow-moving voluntary basis which depended on the goodwill of creditor governments and banks , and claimed that in the absence of such goodwill debtor governments had had no alternative but to declare moratoriums as a means of attracting attention to their situation .
17 The young men who had grown to manhood in the past fourteen years had had no experience of war , and little of fighting , other than the kind that might break out between neighbours , or the kind they saw during their service at court , when a raid on coast or frontier had to be repelled , or the King 's justice enforced .
18 By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent .
19 As confirmation of this , over 85 per cent of clients questioned by AMERG responded that changes in the advertising regulations had had no effect over their method of selecting architects .
20 Held , ( 1 ) allowing the cross-appeals ( Lord Mustill and Lord Slynn of Hadley dissenting ) , that , where a visitor 's decision was made within his jurisdiction in that he had power under the relevant regulating documents to enter into the adjudication of the dispute in question , his decision was not amenable to challenge by judicial review on the ground of error in fact or law contained in that decision ; and that , accordingly , the Divisional Court had had no jurisdiction to entertain the applicant 's motion for judicial review ( post , pp. 1114F–G , G–H , 1121G–H , 1124H — 1125B , H ) .
21 Appeal judge Sir Stephen Brown said the High Court had had no power to make a residence order and blamed Nottinghamshire for an ‘ unhappy catalogue of errors ’ .
22 They did not appear to be engaged , nor was Madeleine sporting a ring , but Harry had had no opportunity to discover if the army captain was really her fiance .
23 It was clear that the debtor had had no communication with his accountant .
24 The MPG teachers tended to notice few changes ; they felt that they were still not involved in decision-making and , therefore , devolution had had no effect on their role in the school .
25 Prime Minister Jan Olszewski said that his newly-formed government had had no time to prepare its own budget , and asked parliament " with a heavy heart and a true sense of responsibility " to accept the measures before it .
26 ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) .
27 On May 20 the Iraqi National Assembly issued a statement rejecting the decisions of the UN 's Iraq-Kuwait border demarcation committee , saying that Iraq strongly opposed the committee 's structure and the method it had followed , and that Iraq had had no say in choosing the three independent experts who sat on it .
28 Mr Richard Benson , defending , said Bourgois had had no idea who Miss Lamplugh was and had not intended to harm her .
29 There had been no guard rails and the men had had no experience or instructions to carry out the job .
30 Many of the older generation coming from a rural background had had no opportunity for training and so were limited in the type of employment open to them .
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