Example sentences of "[verb] have the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The college has had the heart-rending task of choosing between applications from equally deserving cases . |
| 2 | This chapter explores why external change in the international political economy has had the uneven impact on industries we showed in the previous chapter . |
| 3 | There 's been a lot of doom and gloom spoken about ‘ the depressed market ’ , and certainly the fiscal policy of high interest rates has had the short-term effect that was intended . |
| 4 | Colour matching is not a real problem , heraldry has distinct tinctures laid down and these are adhered to , although Mary has had the occasional viewer saying that the badge was never that colour ! |
| 5 | ‘ If the host has had the normal course of immunisation , then yes , it should follow near enough the same evolutionary pattern . |
| 6 | IT WAS not just the Stewart's/Melville players who celebrated their promotion-winning victory , but also the club treasurer who has had the impossible task of balancing the books this season . |
| 7 | Annabelle , you may not realize it , but you are gaining the advantage of marrying a man who has had the sharp corners rubbed off him . |
| 8 | Sandblasting of the Great Slab area at Stanage to remove graffiti painted on over the August bank holiday has had the beneficial side effect of totally cleaning the afflicted area of chalk and rubber marks , and has also increased the friction . |
| 9 | He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago . |
| 10 | In the Neolithic period , totalitarian states emerged as a result of the reappearance of profound inequalities made possible by the acquisition of agricultural surpluses , whereas in the modern epoch most of the comparable states emerged out of periods of revolution and upheaval constituted mainly by a struggle for equality — a fact that has had the odd consequence of leaving all modern police states with official ideologies strongly committed to a non-existent freedom and egalitarianism for their citizens . |
| 11 | At last that shy retiring dragon , Little Puff ( remember his first game ? ) has had the good sense to change his name . |
| 12 | A company called Popperfoto , which owns one of the world 's largest photographic libraries , now has its headquarters in the region , and Central South has had the rare privilege of being allowed free access to its contents . |
| 13 | The Government 's accumulated fiscal surpluses will then be available both to revive an economy which has had the excess heat taken out of it during 1989/90 and to restore its electoral fortunes . |
| 14 | It has had the natural result of generally tending to increase the harshness of punishment — and consequently the size of the prison population and the scale of the penal crisis . |
| 15 | President Havel has had the dreary uniforms of the Communist state redesigned by Theodore Pištěk , the costume designer for the film Amadeus , much of which was shot in Prague . |
| 16 | Could it be that Octel 's handsomely presented claim that without lead alkyls the roads of ‘ most of the world would be very empty ’ has had the intended effect on one of our more propaganda resistant MPs ? |
| 17 | Back at the corner plot , the imaginary Seniors are delighted that Carole has had the gigantic poplar at the back removed . |
| 18 | It obviously has had the opposite effect … |
| 19 | Compliance with the EEC Directive , following pressure from the United States , has had the opposite effect to that intended ; it has significantly reduced protection in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | Will he assure the House that he has had the unreserved support of the Opposition during the passage of that Bill ? |
| 21 | As calculations go , this one turns out to be surprisingly simple , once somebody has had the original idea . |
| 22 | American unionism has had the inestimable advantage of being born in a land whose social landscape was not cluttered up with the debris of a feudal age . |
| 23 | During a time of extreme pressure on his own Government , he has had the added burden of the presidency of the EC . |
| 24 | In fact , his chances will not alter at all because he has had the valuable opportunity of leading two A tours and the grey matter of his leadership on the field is well known . ’ |
| 25 | The fact that the negative side receives very much more attention from him than the positive side , and that the attack is pressed home on only one of the two experiential explanations , has had the unfortunate result that Wittgenstein can be mistakenly thought to be giving the alternative experiential explanation , in terms of behaviour . |
| 26 | To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns . |
| 27 | Richard Feigen the high profile dealer who used to show the quick among artists back in the 1960s but who now specializes in the dead ( so much easier to cope with ! ) has had the bright idea of mounting , this month , the first Pierre Roy exhibition in the United States in over fifty years . |
| 28 | P.P.O.W. has had the bright notion of reviving that intersection this month in a show called ‘ Between the Sheets ’ . |
| 29 | Until very recently , the SAAF has had the praiseworthy policy of flying as many of its historic airframes as possible , and the Oxford 's restoration has been undertaken with this in mind , or at the very least to allow the aircraft to ground-run . |
| 30 | Marius Gabriel The Original Sin ( Arrow ) Passionate big read that has had the big hype . |