Example sentences of "have had [noun sg] " 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 | While some people have had pay freezes , others have had increases over the inflation rate . |
| 3 | ‘ You have had plenty to talk about , ’ said Mrs Ames , sitting back in her canvas chair , her eyes closed . |
| 4 | All carers have had parenting of some sort , leaving a residue of affection , resentment , ambivalence , and other complex emotions in relation to those parental or proxy parental figures . |
| 5 | The investigators have already tested children in primary schools in Peterborough and have had permission to go back to further test these as well as to test in Bedford and Luton . |
| 6 | Perhaps you have had telephone problems of late and you are waiting for the Telecom engineer . |
| 7 | We will go on trying to provide the best and I would just like to say ‘ thank you from myself and my wife Eliza to the vast majority of those with whom we have had contact . |
| 8 | Typically the survey asks if respondents have had contact with family/friends/neighbours on a scale ranging from daily to never . |
| 9 | ‘ Once you have had contact with Jeopardy , you can never be the same again . |
| 10 | Met someone today , the third of a partnership trio in which I have had contact with two over the years for different reasons and he said look in re CV for i/view practice if I want — he was with a local enterprise company helping with startups and job searches and now voluntarily helps with just such a counselling group via one of the big churches in Edinburgh for redundant executives — the figure quoted to me recently re architects in Scotland is that forty per cent are redundant . |
| 11 | Of the two patients with recurrent pouchitis who have ulcerative colitis both have had pouch excision because of poor functional results . |
| 12 | ‘ I have had phone calls to the house warning me to stop work or else , but the Army could n't care less . |
| 13 | Lowland Scots and Ulster Scots dialects , for example , have had backing of [ a ] , and we have to work out from residues that in some ancestral forms of these , there may also have been front-raising ( Lass , 1976 ; J. Milroy , 1981 ; and see chapter 4.6 and 4.7 , above , and section 5.7 , below ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Within this country we have had discussion with the leaders of the Church of England and also with other denominations . |
| 15 | We have had discussion about the word ’ federal ’ . |
| 16 | However , since the Holocaust , the Jews and many other peoples have had difficulty in accepting this belief . |
| 17 | Private sector organisations have had difficulty making similar arrangements work effectively . |
| 18 | We want to hear from science graduates of recent years , especially those who have had difficulty in finding employment . |
| 19 | No one else seems ever to have encountered such a sight and I have had difficulty convincing friends of the truth of my tale . |
| 20 | It is worth remarking again on some of the issues with which instrumentalist accounts have had difficulty in coming to terms with before turning our attention , finally , to structuralist accounts . |
| 21 | Others have had difficulty in taking their departments with them . |
| 22 | Amongst those that had received assistance in completing forestry plans , Cameroon and Colombia have had difficulty obtaining funds , partly because of the prominence given to logging . |
| 23 | If they have had difficulty in school they will worry that their child is having difficulty in school . |
| 24 | If they have had difficulty in school they will worry that their child is having difficulty in school . |
| 25 | Subsequently , their Lordships have had sight of the approved transcript of the judgment which corresponds in all material respects with the report considered in argument . |
| 26 | ‘ I have had sight of the manuscript , ’ Mr Malik was saying . |
| 27 | I have had gill flukes ( not personally ! ) and my fish did n't scratch ; they acted as if they were being poisoned ( heightened colour , loss of control of movement ) , possibly because of oxygen depletion due to gill damage . |
| 28 | There is one for the work force and something called ’ Green Watch ’ on which I have had correspondence with the county director and which costs about £60,000 a year . |
| 29 | Once you have had toxoplasmosis you are immune for life and can not infect a baby . |
| 30 | Now that bands like Extreme and Mr Big have had chart successes with songs featuring acoustic instruments the time would seem right for many players to make a first serious foray into the subtler side of rock . |