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

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1 That experiment has had a remarkable effect on the performance of both pupils and helpers .
2 This technique has had a great deal of impact in computer programming where it in systems analysis and design .
3 German cinema has had a low profile of late , with the most feted film being ‘ The Nasty Girl ’ by Michael Verhoeven which took the Silver Lion at last year 's Berlin Film Festival , and received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film .
4 This boat has had a general re-fit 1988–1989 — new teak deck , awlgripped hull and mast , new engine , heater , fridge , instruments , nav .
5 ‘ Ethnic ’ Scottish rock has had a good decade , something Adamson has mixed feelings about .
6 The only English team in Scottish football has had a dramatic season , not least because a former chairman best not named for what are darkly known as legal reasons faces charges of stealing over £60,000 from club coffers .
7 In the past this Association has had a good relationship with the DLO in Derry .
8 This recognition has had a major impact , not only in the ecological field but also in that of Earth Mysteries .
9 This place has had a good going over !
10 He believes that this estrangement has had a beneficial effect on his prose and that his fusion of English and French thought has resulted in a unique hybrid .
11 This legislation has had a limited effect , as we shall show .
12 It is the aim of this chapter to examine these theoretical issues , especially the Keynesian versus monetarist debate , since theoretical controversy has had a profound influence on the attitude of most governments towards monetary policy as an approach to macroeconomic management .
13 According to Leo Batten of the NCC : " Grasslands in this country have had a low conservation priority .
14 This perspective has had a remarkable impact on the development of our understanding of work organisation and job design , and is at the root of much of experiments and innovations in work organisation in Scandinavia .
15 Regrettably , much of this interest has had a negative focus .
16 Whatever the causes , the rise in part-time work has had a profound effect on the employment conditions and prospects of a growing number of workers .
17 Mrs Postance believes that the heavy digging already completed to prepare the ground for the national curriculum has had a beneficial effect , at least on the teachers , even if the children have yet to reap the harvest : ‘ It 's focused our minds on what we are teaching .
18 We are just glad the whole unfortunate episode has had a happy ending . ’
19 Although the national gallery has had a limited grant , it has , by various means available to it , acquired not only a marvellous new building , but many great works of art .
20 Those normally at work but disabled by non-industrial illness have had a limited cover under National Insurance , and those who have never been in the workforce have very limited special provision and must rely on income support if they lack resources .
21 She held on tight to him , murmuring , ‘ Oh , my darling , hug Mummy , hold on to poor Mummy , poor Mummy 's had a terrible shock . ’
22 • John Watson had a hectic morning 's had a hectic morning 's pike fishing topped by this 26 lb 8 oz specimen from a south Norfolk lake .
23 I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear .
24 Like the generals , the Colonial Office had had a good war .
25 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 .
26 Monmonier ( 1982 , p. 2 ) believes that ‘ the digital computer has had a profound effect on maps , an effect that will equal or surpass the changes in mapping occasioned by the invention of the printing press and the discovery of photography ’ .
27 Much post-modernist art has had a critical and contestatory function which is all too easily overlooked .
28 Although Chomsky 's description of language in terms of transformational grammar has had a considerable impact in respect of work on language intervention , the influence of his theory of language acquisition has been much more limited .
29 That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way .
30 One patient had had a positive test before repeat fundoplication , but was now reflux free , and the test was positive in only two patients .
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