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

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1 Earthworms can also be stored alive in damp leaf mould placed in an icecream tub which has had small holes punched in the lid .
2 He has had ample opportunity to exercise leadership , which he almost invariably directs along positive channels , and has improved in the various skills .
3 He has had ample time to understand what the world wants him to do .
4 Patient 201 is now 54 years of age and has had epidermoid cysts removed as well as having a large jaw osteoma .
5 the parents ' approach to toilet training and methods of managing the enuresis to determine whether the child has had appropriate opportunity to learn to be dry or whether undue stress and anxiety has been generated
6 The SNP has had Labour doing somersaults for months on Opposition cross-party co-operation .
7 Any attempt to produce the letter for the first time at completion should be resisted and completion delayed until the purchaser has had adequate time to consider the disclosures .
8 When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds .
9 If an aid is granted without informing the Commission or before the Commission has had sufficient time to examine the aid , the Court has recently held that the Commission has power to take interim measures ordering the member states concerned to suspend the aid and provide the Commission with all relevant information .
10 It broadcast the opening speeches on each day of the debate on the Queen 's Speech in 1989 ( when televising started ) ; it has stayed on after 3.50 pm on some Tuesdays or Thursdays to cover important ministerial statements ; and it has had special editions to cover the Budget and other major debates .
11 In London , Buckingham Place has had special designs woven for its splendid interiors .
12 IBM and Hewlett-Packard appear to have other fish to fry .
13 Darwinian selection has to have genetic variation to work on .
14 A timeshare development in a resort area needs to have sufficient facilities to attract visitors all the year round .
15 He promised to have certain ones re-examined , but the outcome was that they remained unchanged .
16 ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’
17 A new playroom has opened for children to use while they wait to have artificial limbs fitted .
18 Carey led Piper back into the other half of the room , but the old man seemed to have other things to do .
19 John Wakeham , the new Secretary of State for Energy , had risen to public prominence in his previous Cabinet job by refusing to have nuclear waste dumped in his constituency .
20 What they should 've done , instead of having all them machines on that moors they should 've had damn bugger stripped to waist digging it out .
21 How would you like to have young Rodney livin' here with us ? "
22 I want to ask the Minister why his two Back-Bench colleagues from Wolverhampton did not nominate the schools which they would wish to see closed or from which they would like to have surplus places taken away .
23 The RAC tends to have local firms dealing with their matters and can always be approached as stated above to see if they are prepared to allow you some introductions .
24 None of the 15 patients subsequently shown to have benign disease had positive cytology .
25 Then you had got to have good grounds to believe that they were going to commit a felony .
26 But if it 's a world problem , if there are international dimensions to our problems in Britain , or to Kenya 's problems in Kenya , or to Mexico 's Mexican problems in Mexico , then somehow we 've got to have international groups looking at the international aspects of those problems .
27 They have tended to have fierce debates leading to some kind of resolution . ’
28 Therefore rural people have tended to have large surpluses extracted from them through low prices enforced by parastatal marketing boards .
29 Are you going to have stationary policemen guarding fields to ensure that only the fox can enter and not the , and not the hounds ?
30 But while the two sides seem to have considerable ground to make up , both countries are aware of how much they still need each other .
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