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

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1 Chemical control of sweet potato pests has had varying degrees of success , with many chemicals being too expensive .
2 Social disorder is not new but throughout history , it has had varying degrees of prominence as a problem .
3 Deaf education has been associated with a great deal of dogma which has had varying degrees of influence over the years .
4 With a background in both teaching and magazine work , Fedelma has had wide experience of full-time employment , but is happy that she ‘ took the plunge ’ and is confident her business will expand .
5 The other patient has had successful recannulisation of his shunt and no further bleeding .
6 For too long , the state has had complete control of individual lives , freedoms , and powers .
7 And in a lifetime spent covering the major developments and events in Northern Ireland , he has had ample evidence of the truth of that remark .
8 The LTA is operating in what is today a very professional tennis world , yet on all the LTA 's innumerable committees , there is hardly a single person who has had personal experience of playing top class international tennis at the highest level since the game went ‘ Open ’ in 1968 .
9 Our musician , Mr. Robert Turner , is currently the musical director of a successful Male Voice choir and has had countless years of experience in the world of music — but only hours of experience with computers .
10 On occasions , current behaviour is simply a repetition of long-standing family patterns , as for example when there has been marital conflict expressed in physical violence or where a mentally ill son or daughter has had periodic outbursts of physical aggression .
11 Our resident warden , Jean Moss , has had previous knowledge of such appeals and is guiding us very capably indeed .
12 The Director of the Information Bureau , the Haitian Robert Duval , has had first-hand experience of the value of international assistance .
13 Examples might include having case-study documents of the new intake available as a starting point for a drama about prison ; a huge map for a drama about Treasure Island ; and architect 's designs of Paris sewers for a drama about a bank robbery ( I referred to this lesson in Chapter 5 ) .
14 While younger pupils can not be expected to have great depth of understanding and indeed will not reach a mature conceptual level of historical understanding until their mid-teens , none the less the initial building bricks in the process can be laid from the very beginning of the pupil 's school career .
15 This does not apply to matters of general interest , although some senior officers appear to have strange interpretations of their own .
16 I was surprised to find that hospitals appear to have standard forms of refusal to accept a blood transfusion and was dismayed at the layout of the form used in this case .
17 In order to do this , he or she has to have considerable experience of the advertising business , and may well have spent some time working for a client company .
18 The river needs to be deep enough for the otters to swim and catch fish , the dog otter eating two or three pounds of fish every day , it needs to have thick covering of vegetation along the banks and above all , the water must be clean , fresh and not polluted in any way .
19 Maguire and Dunwoody both looked to have good chances of completing trebles in the concluding Chailey Handicap Hurdle , but Maguire 's mount Manhattan Boy has yet to win outside selling company and faded into third , while Dunwoody 's mount Ilewin found little under pressure after looking really dangerous .
20 The purchaser would thereby be deemed to have full knowledge of all disputes .
21 No doubt she 'd had ample proof of it .
22 He 'd had great hopes of that chain .
23 He hated avocado , kiwis and limes , and everything in those circles seemed to have little snippets of these on top of it .
24 Everyone seemed to have different ideas of what you should do .
25 Even employees who come into personal , face to face contact with the employer 's trade connections , can not always be said to have sufficient quality of contact .
26 She was also seen to have multiple areas of retinal pigmentary change .
27 The two projects were seen to have differing conditions of implementation and are therefore unlikely to be synchronised in a ‘ revolutionary moment ’ , but nonetheless they can be seen as mutually supportive : struggles for democratic forms within enterprises may help to build support for broader democratic planning , while a sympathetic government pursuing the latter project could also greatly expand the opportunities for enterprise democracy by means of legal changes and financing .
28 Healy ( 1993 ) has criticized this study on the grounds that as those selected had previous histories of poor response to neuroleptics , this unfairly weighted the trial against chlorpromazine .
29 Cosmopolitans and locals were shown to have different degrees of influence , participation , attitudes towards the solution of problems by means of formal rules and patterns of informal social relations .
30 That contrasts with what some policies will lead to in a few years time if we are going to have complete closure of some long stay hospitalS .
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