Example sentences of "[verb] have had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All reported having had a wonderful day and causing much comment and amusement wherever they went . |
| 2 | The Rhineland potters who now supplied Britain with samian , but on a much reduced scale , appear to have had a limited figure repertoire . |
| 3 | ‘ You two appear to have had a good time , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |
| 4 | Sixteenth-century towns do not appear to have had a solid group of stable families in the same way as so many contemporary rural parishes . |
| 5 | ‘ The Budget does not appear to have had a positive effect on the attitudes of the consumer towards the market and investment . ’ |
| 6 | Pragmatic instrumentalist thought would appear to have had a significant influence on the general intellectual milieu in which Jennings and Robson worked . |
| 7 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 8 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 9 | However , of Truman , Eisenhower , Kennedy , Nixon , Ford and Carter , none could be said to have had a decisive impact on the direction of domestic policy . |
| 10 | Newspapers in North America suffered in the recession , but paid-for regional papers in the UK are said to have had a good year . |
| 11 | Magnus is said to have led a blameless childhood and in the Longer Magnúss Saga he is said to have had a good schooling which enabled him to learn ‘ holy writings ’ . |
| 12 | Other economic unions , some short-lived and some longer-lived , in Africa , Asia and the Americas , have had a modicum of influence locally , but none can be said to have had a major influence in global terms . |
| 13 | The book was said to have had a sizeable effect . |
| 14 | Three shadow boxes Monday 's deaths column recorded the passing of Chris Hunter , who for donkeys years or so it seemed had had a sweet shop between our house and the football ground in Shildon . |
| 15 | I had known this lady for many years and could claim to have had a friendly relationship with her . |
| 16 | However , publication of a poll of Rabin 's fellow retired generals and of senior officials of Mossad , the intelligence service , the same day , was thought to have had a decisive effect in allaying public fears over the security aspects of Labour 's policies . |
| 17 | Recent warnings by prominent Quebec business leaders concerning the negative economic consequences of independence , coupled with the current economic recession , were thought to have had a sobering effect upon public opinion . |
| 18 | Senescent Eskimos , for example , might be thought to have had a raw deal if the stories of the banishment from the familial hearth of those unfit to hunt and fish are to be believed . |
| 19 | The royal dynasty , thus , was thought to have had a supernatural origin . |
| 20 | You seem to have had a nasty shock . ’ |
| 21 | Possibly the fact that the Robin Hood ballads , which probably took their early form in this period , seem to have had a southern origin but set their events in the North ( particularly in Barnsdale , north of Doncaster , rather than in Sherwood ) , reflects the beliefs of southerners that the North was a strange and wild world . |
| 22 | There are few direct echoes of the opera in the Study Symphony but the entry of Wagner into Bruckner 's life seem to have had a transforming effect . |
| 23 | With these objects , in their millennium of power , the Celts seem to have had a splendid time scraping and whipping Europe into shape . |
| 24 | ‘ You seem to have had a good view , ’ commented Dexter . |
| 25 | ‘ You seem to have had a profitable afternoon . ’ |
| 26 | Happily , and not unexpectedly , a couple of years amid the off-Broadway climes of the county stage seem to have had a mellowing effect . |
| 27 | And to my recollection , no one for whom Prost has ever driven has had a bad word to say about him , save at the very end of Prost 's career with Renault , when other factors that had nothing to do with driving intruded . |
| 28 | In America a law that forces companies to measure and disclose all the toxic waste they produce has had a significant effect . |
| 29 | Behind the desk , the receptionist appears to have had a late night . |
| 30 | Though we can not imagine that Innocent wrote all these , he appears to have had a close relationship with his chancery . |