Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The judge at first instance granted the injunction and the Court of Appeal upheld his decision , Lord Denning MR saying that there was no evidence that the blacking at the Daily Express had had any effect on the provincial dispute .
2 The rule which imposes liability for unintentional defamation has had absurd results .
3 Old rednose has had many things said and written about him .
4 Certainly the MoD thinking on this issue has had little effect in delaying delivery of the four frigates .
5 ‘ Poor old Shergold has had another visit from the boys in blue ! ’ he confided .
6 The unemployment trap has been substantially eased and the simplification of social security has had major effects .
7 It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion .
8 This method has had some success in speech recognition and its application to script recognition is described by Tappert ( 1982 ; see also Wong and Fallside , 1985 ) .
9 This line has had many threats of closure , and this would end a vital link to Hutton Cranswick .
10 This analysis has had important implications for older people .
11 I think the bottom line of this issue , frankly , is that the U S er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now , had there been any question of G Tec 's behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now , and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that G Tec has not been a subject of this investigation , that G Tec 's behaviour has been above reproach , and as far as his comments go we we do n't really know what context to put them in .
12 The history of welded sculpture in this century has had little influence on my work .
13 The three spinsters of the English school have had full-time careers for most of our years since Somerville !
14 Edinburgh graduates in economic and social history have had little difficulty in entering a wide range of challenging and rewarding careers in such areas as financial , industrial and public management and administration , the media , and a range of research activities .
15 I believe that he has just returned from his second visit to Nepal — a country with which this country has had good relations for about 175 years .
16 Carter , who did not appear on stage himself , later said : ‘ The idiots who run pool in this country have had 20 years to get it right and they 've messed up .
17 This occupation has had little influence on its size .
18 This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists .
19 The heavy dependence on foreign technical assistance has had many disadvantages .
20 French state and technocentric-inspired planning have had great successes in both telecommunications and space ; but the British have had their acknowledged successes also — most notably in the broadcasting field , where a traditional consensual policy has been modified step-by-step and channel-by-channel down the decades since 1922 .
21 ‘ The Premier League has had several meetings with supporters groups , and discussions are taking place about improving the game at grass-roots level .
22 In fact , the length of time that Standard English has had this status differs widely from place to place : over three hundred years in Jamaica , less than two hundred in Dominica .
23 The national contract has had many successes and there is a danger these could be threatened by fragmentation .
24 The Meteor Crater and Revelstoke bolides are in fact known from recovered material to have had these identities .
25 Me and my sore back have had several meetings now with Fielding 's moneymen .
26 The present building has had much rebuilding including restoration work in 1973 .
27 Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures .
28 As in patients who have undergone splenectomy , alcoholics have a predisposition to pneumococcal infection and two of the current group had had pneumococcal disease , ( both with evidence of functional hyposplenism ) with one dying from overwhelming septicaemia .
29 Because of their vulnerability to heavy weather all craft have had special restrictions placed upon them .
30 Susie had come from a village ten miles from the Oxfordshire market town in which the school was placed : her previous village primary school had had two teachers ; her experience in that school at a younger more protected age seemed to her less interesting and more childish .
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