Example sentences of "[noun] have had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , bearing in mind that intention in this context is not the same as motive and that the tort may be committed without any ill will towards the plaintiff , it is likely to be a rare case in which A's words have had a causative effect on B's conduct and yet A escapes liability on the ground that they were only ‘ advice . ’ |
| 2 | The rest of the Peachtree side have had a mixed time . |
| 3 | To my knowledge , such considerations have had a major influence on the circumstances of many other homeless people in West Yorkshire and elsewhere . |
| 4 | In this time it seems that all other areas of the Lakes have had a new guide , and some of them two . |
| 5 | Pesticides have had a damaging effect on a lot of wildlife , including birds of prey , but for some reason this does n't seem to have affected barn owls as much as the sparrowhawk and peregrine populations . |
| 6 | Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland . |
| 7 | I think science has always been characterised by periods when particular subjects have had an enormous outburst of activity , and we 're seeing that with erm immunology at the present time . |
| 8 | Clearly the improvement of the unemployment situation in Scotland during the 1970s owes a great deal to the new employment opportunities created by the discovery of North Sea oil , whereas the political troubles in Ireland have had an adverse effect on the local employment situation there . |
| 9 | Diarrhetic shellfish toxins have had a disastrous effect on the seafood industry in many parts of the world . |
| 10 | ‘ Apparently Emma and Sophie are fine — bearing up very well — although Mrs Meadows says that she has n't done any more than to tell the children that their parents have had a slight accident . |
| 11 | Millions of visitors have had a nice day out and spent a lot of money . |
| 12 | Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form . |
| 13 | As he put it : ‘ The planners and the road engineers have had a good bashing , but they have learnt their lesson . |
| 14 | Advances in structuralism have had a belated impact on British historiography . |
| 15 | ‘ You go to a dinner party and find that three of the guests have had an elderly parent murdered . ’ |
| 16 | These key demographic developments of the past 20–30 years have had a major impact on regional and local populations in the UK . |
| 17 | On the contrary , the economic crisis in the rich countries has led , not surprisingly , to a still greater preoccupation with national economic issues and national development , one aspect of this situation being that aid to the developing countries by the Western nations who are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) has declined as a percentage of their gross national product , while the various protectionist measures which they have taken in recent years have had an adverse effect upon the trade of the developing countries . |
| 18 | The art criticism in such books generally has a slant , questioning whether the country or places have had a determining influence on art . |
| 19 | Intensive farming methods and particularly insecticides have had a disastrous effect on the lesser kestrel , an insectivore which now numbers only hundreds , whilst wetland birds such as the marbled teal and white-headed duck fail as their habitat is drained for crops . |
| 20 | The team 's products easily outsell those of other American baseball clubs overseas , even though the Yankees have had a mediocre record on the field in recent years . |
| 21 | It may be that osteopathy or chiropractic could help ; and both osteopaths and chiropractors have had a long training which includes medical education and qualifies them to give valuable help with backache . |
| 22 | These fish have had a special place in my heart ever since I first kept them some years ago , and they are naturally a shoaling fish . |
| 23 | Furthermore , he claims that attempts to make clerical work more routine have had a limited impact because clerical skills and qualifications have not been standardized . |
| 24 | At the same time , the bonds would stimulate the development of a local fixed interest bond market in a country where investors have had a bumpy ride . |
| 25 | It must be remembered that these changes have had a complex effect . |
| 26 | These changes have had a marked effect on farmland as an aggregation of bird habitats . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | LIVERPOOL have had a sensational move for Nottingham Forest star Nigel Clough turned down — by his dad . |
| 29 | EVER since Greece won its freedom from the Turks in the 1820s — no , ever since the Turks took Constantinople on that black Tuesday at the end of May in 1453 — the Greeks have had a Megali Idea , a Great Idea . |
| 30 | The country houses of Goa still retain their Bohemian chandeliers and a mellow stateliness ( left ) , but since land reforms have had a crippling effect on incomes , they are difficult to maintain . |