Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a woman , she knows her language better than most ladies do , or has had a classical education . |
| 2 | Now we will suppose that the author has lighted on important new material or has had a significant number of errors in the first edition pointed out to him . |
| 3 | The detective wondered whether Nicola 's husband was deliberately misleading them or had had a genuine slip of memory . |
| 4 | Often , such people never consider that it might be because they are not academically qualified or had had a bad interview ; they automatically blame racism . |
| 5 | If we follow Wimsatt and Beardsley this far , we arrive at a position that has had a great deal of attraction for literary critics , that the object of criticism must be the literary text itself . |
| 6 | The speech , one of the annual set-pieces of American politics , is billed as the grand overture to a presidency that has had a rocky start . |
| 7 | One of the major social phenomena in Latin America since the Second world war and one that has had a profound effect on the social transformation of the continent , is the urban explosion . |
| 8 | This system , which is discussed in detail by Montgomery and Wallace leads to a fairly high number of accesses required to retrieve records from a well-aged file , i.e. one that has had a large number of additions or deletions since it was last loaded . |
| 9 | Since that time , a major change has occurred with respect to social mobility that has had a direct bearing on the emergence of Britain 's underclass , and this is considered in this chapter . |
| 10 | ( that stands for Kids of Survival ) , an artist cooperative that has had an enormous success in recent years , opened its first show at Mary Boone last month . |
| 11 | The New Criticism began , as 1 said , with the work of Richards and Eliot ; more exactly one can say that it began with the publication in 1924 of Richards 's Principles of Literary Criticism , a radical , polemical programme for the study of literature that has had an enormous impact on British criticism and scholarship in the past fifty years . |
| 12 | Remember the cuts in the people 's rights at industrial tribunals that have had a profound effect on employment rights , the attack on local democracy , rate capping , the cuts of tax on local government have had a devastating effect on housing and the social fabric of local community . |
| 13 | The best example of that is the Alpha 4 database programs , which normally sells for £345 , but for which only £49 needs to be paid if you 're a registered user — it 's gone from version 2 to version 3 , and has had a complete change of documentation . |
| 14 | The Scottish Churches Christian Aid Committee has been investigating and has had a helpful meeting with a senior representative of the Association of Chief Police Offices ( Scotland ) ( ACPO ) . |
| 15 | School Social Worker is here and has had a bad day . |
| 16 | , 43 , is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and has had an extensive career in sales and marketing in the wholesale and retail food industry ; wholesale hardware trade and the computer industry . |
| 17 | She was the first woman delegate to the Humberside County Association of Trades Councillors and the first woman on the executive and has had an enormous impact on the Association 's efforts on women 's issues . |
| 18 | I had managed it and had had a golden Stuttgart . |
| 19 | At that time I was working for the LNER on the Tyneside electrified lines , and had had a gentle hint from my then boss that he would like to know what Mr Rostron was up to . |
| 20 | Dave was in the property business , and had had a baddish time during the recession . |
| 21 | Because she seemed a nice woman and had had a nice mother , with whom she seemed to get on well . |
| 22 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 23 | Clare looked incredibly fit and had had a wonderful time . |
| 24 | Olazabal , unshaven , was suffering from a headache and fever and had had a sleepless night . |
| 25 | Some buildings are larger and better known than others , and have had a great deal of publicity ; others are perhaps more modest in both scale and workmanship , but still deserving of attention as an important part of the local scene . |
| 26 | Their decisions are binding on industrial tribunals and have had a significant impact on managerial practices by major employers . |
| 27 | The junior transport minister , Mr Robert Atkins , proposed yesterday that drivers supervising a learner must be at least 21 and have had a full licence for at least three years . |
| 28 | Erm , somebody tells me that Sarah is erm doing very well but has had a foul cold ever since she 's been over there , is she very well now ? |
| 29 | Wright was a summer signing from the Baseball Ground outfit two years ago but has had an indifferent Anfield career . |
| 30 | Women who enjoy housework but have had a full-time job say that they look forward to having time to do things like get the carpet shampooed or make new curtains without someone else being in the way . |