Example sentences of "[vb -s] have [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does not usually do so unless he or a section of the public which he represents has some special interest to protect , in enforcing that particular law , that is not shared by the public at large . |
| 2 | START has had outstanding experimental success this year , recording electron temperatures up to 5 million degrees C with excellent energy containment ; it is important for the future development of fusion power that , after 13,000 discharges , no major instabilities have been observed for this low aspect ratio tokamak . |
| 3 | HOWEVER dire the rest of Britain 's economy , it has had one sure prop : the City of London , still the world 's leading centre of international finance . |
| 4 | Although their creation had the disadvantage of prolonging the existence of the House of Lords long beyond its natural term , it has had one beneficial effect in broadening the representation of women in parliament . |
| 5 | Mr. Walker : Re-location has had one remarkable effect on Wales . |
| 6 | The delay in starting rescue work has had one welcome effect . |
| 7 | On to the present , and whatever the political and academic motivations behind the all-embracing National Curriculum , there is no doubt that it has had one overriding effect : it has demoralised teachers , and its prescriptive nature and reliance on testing have reduced their spare time and sapped their energy . |
| 8 | However , the rebellion against this concept has had one positive effect . |
| 9 | This Lecture has had two primary objectives . |
| 10 | Her mum Pat , 48 , said : ‘ Vicky has been so upset that she has had two epileptic fits since Penny disappeared . |
| 11 | He has had two good days of practice . ’ |
| 12 | Andrew 's father , David played lock for the club and has had two two-year spells as the club president , while his mother , Kathleen , a physiotherapist at Kings Hospital , Dundee , has had a big influence , not least in ensuring speedy recovery from injury , notably from the sprung collarbone sustained in the ‘ B ’ international against Ireland on December 28 . |
| 13 | Ellcock , 26 , has had two major back operations . |
| 14 | We are very pleased to say our newsletter team has had two extra members this time . |
| 15 | A recently widowed friend of mine , well into her 80s , writes to say that she ‘ was asked to speak on bereavement-coping at a conference of social works and has had two more bookings as a result . ’ |
| 16 | 3.05 : Typed letter to parent about child 's fit on the bus this morning , he has had two more fits during the day . |
| 17 | Michael Manser sold Castle Mill soon after its conversion was complete and since that time it has had two further owners , the first of whom installed a lift linking the ground-floor entrance hall with the first-floor dining-room , the generous volume of which has been somewhat reduced by the intrusion of the lift shaft into its south-west corner . |
| 18 | In Britain this debate has had two main features : an interest in the relevance of American experience of cable television , and complaints about the lack of a clear direction in the responses of the British Government . |
| 19 | Since The Northern Echo highlighted her campaign on Monday , she has had other concerned parents contacting her . |
| 20 | The Opera House has had other lean times . |
| 21 | ( Her assassination in Nicaragua in April 1983 has had serious political repercussions which it is beyond the compass of this book to discuss . ) |
| 22 | In total , taking both seasons together , he has had 13 top-10 finishes from 27 starts and has only missed three cuts . |
| 23 | The Haughton area has had many new houses built with many more planned . |
| 24 | But monism has had many other manifestations : in the philosophy of Croce , in the one-form-one-meaning postulate of pretransformational linguistics , and not least , in some authors ' own sense of the artistic integrity and inviolability of their work ; in Tolstoy 's words : " This indeed is one of the significant facts about a true work of art — that its content in its entirety can be expressed only by itself . " |
| 25 | On the poetic side , he has had many good relationships with women . |
| 26 | Trevor Nunn was appointed Artistic Director of the RSC — their youngest ever — in 1968 , and has had many brilliant successes with Shakespeare at Stratford , the Barbican and abroad . |
| 27 | The Lido Palace has had many famous visitors , including Sir Winston Churchill who spent his honeymoon here . |
| 28 | For almost 300 years the Value of Neath has had many famous visitors including the artist J.H.M. Turner , whose painting ‘ Aberdulais Mill ’ is well known . |
| 29 | America has had many unsuccessful attempts to form a national repertory theatre , performing the classics of the English language , and one wonders whether it will ever be possible to get this going effectively . |
| 30 | The rift between conventional and complementary medicine has had many harmful effects . |