Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 2 | Thus Nutbeam et al are disappointed that two well tried instruments for preventing children from smoking failed to have any effect , especially when the schemes worked elsewhere . |
| 3 | In such cases they implied that every Ujdaid or every Amiri had had combatant status . |
| 4 | Crohn 's disease — three of 10 patients regarded as having definite Crohn 's disease on histopathological review had had subtotal colectomy before restorative proctocolectomy ( Table II ) . |
| 5 | Such reductions might be marginal and therefore the enhancement tended to have less impact than when it was used for cross-school initiatives . |
| 6 | This picked up language used in earlier Hague Conventions ; given the establishment of the Central Authority system , this provision seemed to have little point , as the Rapporteur himself admitted . |
| 7 | It will be appreciated that this technique of automated teaching seemed to have enormous potential . |
| 8 | Despite its rhetorical form , the question seemed to have real meaning . |
| 9 | After several hearings between November 1817 and April 1818 the court decided that the appellee did have this right . |
| 10 | planning applications , erm the sort of locational aspects are important , the the existing policy in the structure plan did have some sort of control over the the number of jobs , but it 's as as David Potter has said , it 's been very difficult to monitor er the level of jobs being provided , and in practice it 's been really impossible to implement that aspect of of the policy . |
| 11 | The Party Secretariat ceased to have ministerial status , but , in reality , both it and the vast bureaucracy it controlled continued to function exactly as before . |
| 12 | On his arrival in the village , the Franciscan had had some trouble with those who practised the black arts and used the cemetery for diabolical activities . |
| 13 | As in patients who have undergone splenectomy , alcoholics have a predisposition to pneumococcal infection and two of the current group had had pneumococcal disease , ( both with evidence of functional hyposplenism ) with one dying from overwhelming septicaemia . |
| 14 | The group had had numerous discussions about whether or not they should have a rotating chairperson , some people arguing fiercely that we should n't imitate male structures , that we were developing genuinely new ways of relating , conducting political discussions ; we must all learn to be more sensitive , not interrupt each other , not talk for too long . |
| 15 | She knew Eddie 's gambling had had disastrous consequences for her family , but it had been a terrible shock to discover he had taken so much from his best friend as well . |
| 16 | A wife whose husband had had multiple sclerosis and went to a holiday home for the disabled for two weeks to give her a rest said : |
| 17 | The only other mould found to have equal activity was one kept in culture by La Touche , with which Fleming 's mould appeared to be identical . |
| 18 | He had joined the Institute in his first year at the Establishment because at that time the organisation seemed to have some sinew to it . |
| 19 | They found that more than half their sample did have previous admissions within the preceding year . |
| 20 | Such self-disgust appeared to have physical causes or manifestations : a pattern that was to repeat itself at irregular intervals for the next twenty years . |
| 21 | The difference in response to the two eye masks was dramatic : when the approaching person appeared to have large eyes , an iguana tended to flee sooner , and to run further . |
| 22 | In the main survey ( Appendix 1 , comments on Table 24 ; and more detailed cross-tabulations not included in Appendix ) , only three per cent of those who had recently bought on credit had had any problems with their credit arrangement , after buying ( nearly half the problems were difficulties over paying , and problems which people thought were the fault of the credit firm were very rare indeed ) . |
| 23 | The Royal Navy had had ample warning that Jones was putting to sea again but , guarding the door of the already raided stable , was patrolling the Cumberland coast , while he made his way round the far side of Ireland and soon reports were reaching London of his activities in Irish waters on the early stages of his voyage , though they took several weeks to arrive . |
| 24 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 25 | This section went on to ask whether the respondent had had direct experience of a whole school review in accordance with the Oxfordshire scheme . |
| 26 | In order to be an occupier a person had to have sufficient control over the premises . |
| 27 | After Mia discovered that Woody was having an affair with her 21-year-old adopted daughter , Soon-Yi , the tortured comic genius started to have violent mood swings — and the light-hearted film turned more and more brutal as Woody 's world fell apart . |
| 28 | Both are concerned with an explicit recognition in managing a workforce that the way in which the organisation is structured , work is delegated and responsibility apportioned have direct relevance to managing performance . |
| 29 | Equally , the degree of unionisation of the workforce seemed to have little impact on the personnel practices of manufacturing establishments in their use either of fixed-term contract workers or agency workers . |
| 30 | When in the 1880s , anxiety about the question grew more acute , and when exhortation to society members not to instruct " female learners " or to allow their daughters to take up the trade seemed to have little effect , more organized attempts were made to confront the problem . |