Example sentences of "[verb] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | She picked up the quartz crystal which , she believes , has had a beneficial effect on her well-being . |
| 62 | He believes that this estrangement has had a beneficial effect on his prose and that his fusion of English and French thought has resulted in a unique hybrid . |
| 63 | While this has not affected sales , it has had a negative impact on profits , Sage noted . |
| 64 | What 's more , UEFA can argue that the unique predicament of Red Star Belgrade has had a negative effect on the figures . |
| 65 | Regrettably , much of this interest has had a negative focus . |
| 66 | One of my horses , Firefly , has had a nasty cough , and it was so much worse today that 1 had to send for the vet ; and I simply had n't a moment . ’ |
| 67 | But do the movements ‘ convey information ’ to fellow workers in the hive in any more semantic a fashion than , say , a bruise on a child 's face conveys to his mother the information that he has had a nasty bump ? |
| 68 | This boat has had a general re-fit 1988–1989 — new teak deck , awlgripped hull and mast , new engine , heater , fridge , instruments , nav . |
| 69 | Such success for developing countries is not always the case , even in the same industry ; Bolivia has had a sorry experience in trying to do the same as its Eastern rivals , but has suffered from a critical lack of expertise . |
| 70 | A free-speech amendment to a bill of rights has had a certain success that might be emulated . |
| 71 | Your life story so far , Mrs James , has had a certain lack of distinction . |
| 72 | This has led to farmers overstocking animals on the land which has had a devastating effect on birdlife . |
| 73 | The decline of British manufacturing industry has had a devastating impact on the inner cities where such a large proportion of the black population live and this has been exacerbated by racial discrimination by employers to yield high levels of black youth unemployment ( Martin and Rowthorn , 1986 ; Newnham , 1986 ) . |
| 74 | As predicted by environmentalists , the damming of the Danube at Gabcikovo , part of a huge hydroelectric project sponsored by the Slovak government , has had a devastating impact on the local environment . |
| 75 | The massive aid operation ( the Red Cross allocated 20 per cent of their world budget to Somalia ) has had a visible effect , despite the odds stacked against it . |
| 76 | Spain by contrast has had a 40-year dictatorship which unlike those of Japan , Germany or Italy , is part of very recent history . |
| 77 | On the contrary , it is time to treat religion as something strange and outside the ordinary run of life , something which , mysteriously , has had a vast effect on people , over which wars were fought and people were burned and persecuted , and which still has an effect on people ; something which can not be reduced to mere kindness at the old people 's parties or village jumble sales , but which has inspired some of the most splendid painting , writing , music , and architecture ever to be produced by the human imagination , and is still capable of producing martyrdom , cruelty , and sectarian passion . |
| 78 | Australia has had a Labour Government for some time , but unemployment there is higher than in the United Kingdom . |
| 79 | She has had a nice break and , who knows , if it rains there they can shut the shop ! ’ he added . |
| 80 | From the beginning , trade liberalisation — cutting import tariffs and abolishing import licences — has had a central place in most Latin reform programmes . |
| 81 | AT&T has had a similar experience with its Global Business Communications Systems subsidiary , which sells $1 billion of telecommunications gear annually to corporate customers . |
| 82 | Friends of the Earth has had a similar growth rate in that period , so that its membership is now over 180,000 . |
| 83 | Much academic political sociology has had a similar relation to political life . |
| 84 | In order that the CAA and AAIB can decide on appropriate action , they need to know whether anyone else has had a similar failure or found signs of overheating on one of these units and not told them about it . |
| 85 | The market 's dramatic decline — from its 1989 peak of more than 600,000 barrels to about 400,000 last year — has had a sobering effect on brewers , and realism in now making a welcome return to their predictions of the market 's long-term potential . |
| 86 | Malcolm has had a nervous breakdown . |
| 87 | McGee , who began as an apprentice with Middlesbrough but was released after making 30 League appearances , has had a unsuccessful spell with Leicester . |
| 88 | The speech , one of the annual set-pieces of American politics , is billed as the grand overture to a presidency that has had a rocky start . |
| 89 | As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament . |
| 90 | As part of the deal with Prue Leith , it has had a major facelift . |