Example sentences of "[noun] have had [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plateless bolt-on necks are the order of the day , and the Koreans have had to work out a strange method of extending the neck an extra step past the end of the fingerboard to try to keep the Rickenbacker look ( you might be able to spot this feature on the black one , between the neck and middle pickups ) . |
| 2 | For the last year , charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation . |
| 3 | Well I think it 's er down to the competitive tendering process where the County Council has had to put out the cleaning contracts for schools to tender . |
| 4 | I have no doubt that those same consumers , when exercising their choice about what to buy , will want to be absolutely sure that products imported to the United Kingdom have had to undergo precisely the same levels of checks and monitoring as products exported from the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | When Boyd was a child of eight , he and his father had had to sit out a tornado while visiting a German friend who had settled in Kansas . |
| 6 | By the time I had been an intern for a few more months , doing my rounds in my white coat with stethoscope dangling round my neck ( and feeling very important ) , Father had had to close down the second branch , leaving — for the time being — only the original shop which he had opened near the Market Place where the annual Goose Fair was held . |
| 7 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 8 | On the subject of the Pierre Matisse purchase he noted that less than half the collection had been sold but that Sotheby 's had recouped both the cost and associated taxes already . |
| 9 | The bus , therefore , no longer goes along Summerfield terrace , with the result that 50 old-age pensioners have had to draw up a petition to try to persuade the public transport company to reinstate the two-way pattern . |
| 10 | At Guy 's Hospital the poisons unit has had to set up a psychiatric liaison service to help such patients . |
| 11 | Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days . |
| 12 | Christie 's had pointed up the stylistic similarity of the putti to those found in some of Rysbrack 's , tomb sculpture . |
| 13 | I have since asked my constituent for an update of the position and she has confirmed that the family has had to put in a good deal more extra money to finance both daughters than it had previously expected . |
| 14 | A wine bar called Fox 's had opened up a short walk away in Church Street , causing such amazement that the Observer printed an article about it . |