Example sentences of "had [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly so for white Creole speakers who can not , except in very rare and exceptional circumstances , have had exposure to Creole as young children : but it is also true for speakers like Stephen and Joan , whose " Patois " approaches , but only sometimes reaches , the Jamaican Creole target . |
| 2 | They must have known and must have had present to their minds all that . |
| 3 | And off-screen , too , he 's had reasons to be less than charmed by life . |
| 4 | Scotland have had disruptions to their scrummaging routines this week though , as both McGeechan and Dixon reasoned , it is not as if they have had to fuse any newcomers to the pack , where Peter Wright 's sabbatical to loosehead worked well against the French . |
| 5 | Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while . |
| 6 | Working-class women had always had recourse to abortion ; but in the case of the last century it was particularly likely , first , where married women workers worked outside the home and hence paid a key role in determining their families economic stability ; and second , where the dependence of the family on the women 's wage led to a reappraisal of family strategy . |
| 7 | In Robbe-Grillet 's Pour un nouveau roman ( 1963 ) and Nathalie Sarraute 's L'ère du soupçon ( 1965 ) , Michel Butor 's essays and Claude Simon 's conference papers , articles and interviews , all of these writers have had recourse to a modernist canon as part of an impetus of literary self-justification . |
| 8 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 9 | As with other authors who have had recourse to the analytic versus holistic distinction ( Bever and Chiarello , 1974 ; Bever , Hurtig and Handel , 1976 ; Ross and Turkewitz , 1976 ; Gates and Bradshaw , 1977a ) this is a post-hoc explanation , not an experimental test of the notion that different cognitive strategies are characteristic of left and right hemispheres . |
| 10 | It was the first time that Venezuela had had recourse to the IMF . |
| 11 | How many times has one ever had recourse to a term like anadiplosis ? |
| 12 | Since they were in bed the query was ambiguous , and might have had reference to what had gone before . |
| 13 | The , in the last few months alone , we 've also had visits to Brussels by the General Secretary , the Deputy General Secretary , a number of Regional Secretaries , political officers , training officers and others . |
| 14 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
| 15 | It was a small Polytechnic , had a history of poor local authority support , and the CNAA had had occasion to be critical of it as an academic community . |
| 16 | The mother had not had access to her since January 1987 . |
| 17 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 18 | While more women have had access to education , the economic crisis has combined with prevailing social attitudes to limit women 's opportunities to improve their economic position . |
| 19 | Under normal conditions a male dominance hierarchy would have been previously established and only the dominant male would have had access to the receptive female . |
| 20 | Anyone who has had access to classified work produced by the scientific civil service is likely to endorse this view . |
| 21 | In March 1991 , a bank as unpaid mortgagee had taken possession of the debtor 's business premises and he had not had access to them since that date . |
| 22 | It is unlikely that many Europeans would have had access to Aristotle 's writings , but the cuckoo 's habits were certainly well enough known during the Middle Ages for them to be mentioned by Chaucer ( in The Parlement of Foules , 1382 ) , and for the term ‘ cuckold ’ — describing a man deceived by his wife — to have passed into the English language . |
| 23 | If one were to include other categories of ‘ news ’ , such as ‘ Law , police and accidents ’ — a category excluded from the public affairs one — then the reader would have had access to substantial amounts of information about the outside world . |
| 24 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd where they would have had access to MS-DOS . |
| 25 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd , where they would have had access to MS-DOS , although Phoenix was one of the pioneers of the concept of the clean room , where no-one that has any inside knowledge of the code being emulated is allowed to come into contact with the developers of the emulation . |
| 26 | One of the American complaints against Japan is that Japan has had access to US government-funded research while denying foreign companies access to research funded by the Japanese government . |
| 27 | The affluent clients of the smartest shops of Hong Kong , Paris , New York , London or Tokyo respond to the same qualities in ivory as those which attracted Palaeolithic mammoth hunters up to thirty thousand years ago and have continued to beguile all who have since had access to the material . |
| 28 | Further , representatives of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board have had access to a large quantity of files in [ that state ] and copies of certain of them which have been returned to London , and among these files is documentation concerning the affairs of your clients . |
| 29 | The prisoner has been at his own trial and he already knows , or has had access to , all the evidence and all that was said . |
| 30 | Mr Rose , had he had access to the whole elaboration of this pleasing metaphor , with its roots in folklore and childhood culture , hallucination and dream , might , or might not , have understood something about Marcus that he did not already understand , and might , or might not , have felt able to offer help or advice as a result of this understanding . |