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

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1 And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height .
2 Before their initial gall stone dissolution treatment , 15 of 82 patients followed up for more than six months had had solitary stones , compared with 67 who had had multiple stones .
3 This controversy could in principle have been resolved if the Electricity Boards had had effective knowledge of their own costs in meeting specific loads , but they conspicuously failed to develop and use the research necessary to establish this .
4 Once again , fewer Asians had had unpleasant experiences .
5 Moreover , the large city or freight terminals had to have massive capacity to cope with intense seasonal pressures .
6 I had a distinct impression that many of the organisers had had professional theatre experience and that , naturally , their point of view was coloured by this , while the teachers had arrived at the point of realising the potential of drama as a tool of education .
7 All of these 7 patients had had cerebral birth injuries which might have induced a shift of dominance to the right hemisphere .
8 None of the patients had had abdominal surgery previously .
9 Six patients had had previous infections and each of these was drinking heavily .
10 Five patients had had previous surgery of the pancreas ( 3 lateral pancreaticojejunostomies , 2 tail pancreatectomies and 1 cyst-jejunostomy ) .
11 Before primary gall stone dissolution , 16 patients had had solitary stones : the remaining 77 had had multiple stones .
12 Many locals had had good reason to be grateful to him when times had been hard .
13 The last three archdeacons had had sizeable families so that the Vicarage , though impractical to run , had at least been filled .
14 D. When ships became larger , the merchants had to have new docks for them .
15 If the parasitized snails had had extra-thin shells , we 'd happily explain this as an obvious debilitating effect on the snail 's constitution .
16 The International Herald Tribune of Oct. 30 reported that documents supplied to the court handling the case of the murdered Jesuits showed that Maj. Eric Buckland , a US military adviser , and others had had prior knowledge of the proposed attack on the Jesuits .
17 Both women had had severe constipation for over 25 years .
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