Example sentences of "[noun pl] have have an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland . |
| 2 | I think science has always been characterised by periods when particular subjects have had an enormous outburst of activity , and we 're seeing that with erm immunology at the present time . |
| 3 | Diana 's parents had had an unhappy marriage . |
| 4 | He was an only child whose parents had had an unhappy marriage , with rows and infidelities . |
| 5 | In fact , none of the popular British names in the frequency lists in the last 75 years has had an unstressed initial syllable . |
| 6 | ‘ You go to a dinner party and find that three of the guests have had an elderly parent murdered . ’ |
| 7 | On the contrary , the economic crisis in the rich countries has led , not surprisingly , to a still greater preoccupation with national economic issues and national development , one aspect of this situation being that aid to the developing countries by the Western nations who are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) has declined as a percentage of their gross national product , while the various protectionist measures which they have taken in recent years have had an adverse effect upon the trade of the developing countries . |
| 8 | Accountability — many of the changes in the NHS over recent years have had an implicit , if not explicit , goal of strengthening the notion of line management . |
| 9 | The crinoids have had an eventful geological history . |
| 10 | The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat . |
| 11 | Security over personal property is another area where law and lawyers have had an important facilitative role . |
| 12 | Professional standards have had an increasing influence on the National Health Service . |
| 13 | But although socialist or liberal-reformist doctrines have had an important influence in some cases — in the Cuban Revolution , in the Popular Unity Government in Chile , and in the Peronist movement in Argentina — it is a conservative nationalism , expressed through military regimes , which has largely prevailed . |
| 14 | Tomorrow we have to get up at 6.30 ( on a Sunday ! ) in order to go with the participants on the course to a commune outside Nanking , to do our ‘ Open-door Schooling ’ — Open-door Schooling is an essential part of the Chinese political philosophy of education — i.e. educational institutions have to have an open door and renew their contacts with industry and agriculture . |
| 15 | It is clearly one area where government housing policies have had an equalising effect . |
| 16 | Look , the unions have had an Equal Pay for women thing down on the TUC statute books since 1889 , and they 've done nothing . |
| 17 | Councils have had an enormous amount of money through their hands , and have spent it in an equally enormous number of areas over the past 12 years . |