Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have have [art] " in BNC.

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1 The tribeswoman will doubtless have deep feelings for her children and be ambitious for their success in life , and affection and admiration for animals has had a place in all societies , even in that of Ancient Rome .
2 printing papers which after making have had a surface coating with clay etc , to give a smoother , more even finish with greater opacity .
3 Yeah and I said to her erm , and she said I do n't know how it came out about her son in the fire service , oh I know she 'd just come back from Orlando , cos she 'd been off work having had a hysterectomy and she had three week 's leave due to her
4 Since interest rates started falling millions of homeowners have had the chance to remortgage their home and pocket lower interest deals .
5 Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest .
6 A few months earlier , Sammy Woods of Australia and Harry Wood of England had had a near miss in this particular department , but it took a brace of Smiths to achieve a Test first .
7 Since the last time the survey was done ( 1976 ) , the south East of England has had a dreadful 82 per cent increase in the number of unfit houses .
8 For the manual working class the pattern of mobility has had a double-edged effect , on the one hand increasing the possibility of ‘ social advancement ’ ( although this remains slim for men who have passed their mid-20s ) , while on the other reducing the influx of people from other backgrounds .
9 ‘ I feel sure that if the Corporation of Exeter had had the facts of the present case brought before them they would never have insisted upon the payment of a toll which they clearly would have had no right to insist on if the plaintiff had but claimed exemption upon landing the limestone .
10 You may have noticed over the last three slides that several of sites have had a zero er percentage registered and we certainly feel that in a couple of these sites this was probably due to poor note-keeping rather than a percentage .
11 Millions of visitors have had a nice day out and spent a lot of money .
12 For over 120 years , the House of Commons has had a Public Accounts Committee which has established a reputation as an impartial watchdog over government spending .
13 For instance , UK booksellers selling by mail to Denmark and exceeding an annual Ecu35,000 ( £25,000 ) threshold of business have to have a VAT registration in Denmark and to charge the 25% Danish rate of VAT on all sales to unregistered customers .
14 A free-speech amendment to a bill of rights has had a certain success that might be emulated .
15 But it is certainly true that in the last sixty years the various schools and academies of acting have had a significant effect on the climate of acting .
16 As 60 per cent of the cassava grown in this area is marketed in towns , a yield increase even of this order of magnitude has had a positive impact on urban food supplies .
17 So far , groups of crew have had an induction course and what is called ‘ a long sail ’ , when they spend several days acquainting themselves with the boat and gear , absorbing everything from how the cooker is switched on and how to flush the head to hoisting the mainsail and steering .
18 Professionals in academic institutions often have an administrative and managerial role within the institution ; and over 80% of managers have had a college education , half of them studying liberal arts subjects .
19 The growth of EP has had a marked influence at the low end of the publishing business .
20 Though I still felt drunk , my stomach ached and my throat felt like a couple of hedgehogs had had a fight in it , I did feel a lot better .
21 Seven of nine patients over 60 years of age have had a successful outcome .
22 ‘ Uptake of vaccine is very variable — one study showed that only about 49 per cent of GPs have had the vaccination , for example , even though the GP is just as much at risk as any other doctor . ’
23 A GROUP of MPs have had a narrow escape from gunfire in Bosnia .
24 Nobody yet in the whole history of mankind has had the strength to resist doing what lies in their power to do , just to prove that they can .
25 ‘ It seemed as if quite a lot of people had had the same dream — or a similar one , at least — there were similar elements in all of them .
26 Some of the more rigorous statistical studies of style have had the purpose of discovering the author of works of doubtful attribution .
27 Michel Strauss of Sotheby 's had no difficulty identifying last month 's Page three as René Magritte 's ‘ La Philosophie dans le Boudoir ’ .
28 TFM of Stockton have had a phenomenal response throughout its region , said its station manager Brian Lister .
29 Communitarian concepts of organization have had no locational monopoly within the imagination of reformers of a ‘ left ’ persuasion .
30 How strange that since the eighteenth century the peasants of Møn had had a taste for English ware .
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