Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] has have a " in BNC.

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1 Since 1977 no one starting work or who has had a gap of two complete consecutive tax years in employment has been allowed to pay the small stamp .
2 If we are pretty sure that someone has had a heart attack though , we 'll whistle up the RAF helicopter to get the casualty straight to the hospital .
3 Although she has had a few boyfriends since , there is no one special around .
4 I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ .
5 Her GP informed us that she has had a further recurrence of left hemiparesis and , after investigation , the provisional diagnosis is demyelination .
6 Once she has had a good rest , her world will put on a fresh complexion . ’
7 Santa Cruz has to date kept a very low profile in Japan , although it has had a product available on NEC 9800 series personal computers for some years .
8 For the time being UNESCO is unable to send a cultural mission to Iraq to investigate the situation , although it has had a team of experts lined up since July of last year .
9 Although he has had a good response from his three other beers , production is still only two barrels a week .
10 The controversy surrounding the overall record of the Thatcher administration suggests that it has had a major impact .
11 While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it .
12 Adding to that all the other money that the Government have provided for sport , sport can reckon that it has had a pretty fair deal from the Government .
13 At one point , Walter tries to convince his wife that he has had a story accepted by BBC Radio .
14 Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge .
15 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 ?
16 Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour .
17 So the , the upshot of it all , is he 's banned for two races , but this is a susp suspended erm , ban over two months , er er , over six months rather , so it means that if he 's a good boy over the next six months he wo n't miss any races at all , so he has had a lucky escape .
18 ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’
19 After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power .
20 The game continues until everyone has had a turn .
21 Erm but if somebody has had a gap for whatever reason , it is often the only method of actually covering it if you want to do something that involves the teachers ' superannuation scheme .
22 Mrs Thatcher has been fortunate in that retirements of several senior personnel in the early 1980s gave her the opportunity to influence promotions ; there were thirteen appointments as Permanent Secretary in 1982 alone and she has had a hand in appointing the great majority of Permanent and Assistant Permanent Secretaries since 1979 .
23 He has the distance in him , he ran the National last year , albeit without finishing , and he has had a solid season .
24 I just wanted to tell you that I glanced at your book while cleaning my master 's study ( he is a doctor ) and it has had a terrible effect on me .
25 His final point about trust is fair enough , it sounds like he has had a gutful of Leeds fans berating him for sticking to his guns .
26 If he has had a very good recovery , he may get onto the plinth at a low height and kneel on all fours , and then be guided downwards to lie on his stomach .
27 ‘ Howey made one mistake , but he has had a tremendous season so far and I have no need to worry about him .
28 ‘ He does n't usually throw tantrums , ’ Ashley said ruefully , as Vitor came round from the boot , ‘ but he has had a very long day . ’
29 Advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself , but IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it
30 France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism .
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