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

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1 Each has had a significant impact on the other .
2 Initial results from the first phase of the research ( summer 1986 ) show that the police are sticking very closely to the new rules and that this has had a major impact in the way CID officers conduct investigations .
3 This has had a reciprocal impact on RX 's internal functioning ; reducing what were previously sharp breaks in the RX value chain has consolidated the iden-tification of subsequent workgroups as ‘ customers ’ with a degree of choice within the extended RX production network .
4 Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking .
5 This has had a profound effect on systems analysis and database design .
6 Whether the costs savings are very considerable is hard to say but there have undoubtedly been some sayings ; what is clear , however , is that costs have been whittled down and that this has had a widespread effect on the production of newspapers in Britain .
7 Although the station was non-operational for a few years following the disaster it was fully operational again by April 1979 and since 1985 has had a modern Tyne class lifeboat on station to cover the wide stretch of north-east facing coast around the port .
8 The majority , both white and black , come from working-class backgrounds , a few have had a middle-class upbringing and education .
9 The new legislation regarding seat belt wearing in the rear seats of cars which came into effect on 1 July 1991 has had a downward effect on the number of rear seat car passenger casualties .
10 RECENT observations suggest that the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991 has had a considerable effect on ozone concentrations in the tropical stratosphere ( refs 1 , 2 , and J. W. Waters , personal communication ) .
11 The engraving on the outer face of the Mezine example , while decorative , is also likely to have had a symbolic meaning .
12 This is likely to have had a great influence on the goals and , in particular , the mission statement of the organisation which were discussed in Section 2.2 .
13 Nevertheless some of the law in the Pactus is likely to have had a royal origin .
14 An elderly man living alone , for example , was 5.74 times more likely to have had a home-help visit during the previous month than an elderly couple , after allowing for the different average disability levels of the two types of household .
15 Elderly people living with other , younger people were much less likely to have had a home-help visit in the last month than households containing only elderly people .
16 Of these , only three had had a continuous hospital admission lasting more than five years .
17 Some workers turned to Palestinian unions , although these had had a chequered career .
18 Although these have had a great deal of success in calculations of nuclear masses and shapes , recent laser experiments have produced some results that do not agree with them .
19 Most ma–or roads now have cycle facilities and it seems likely that these have had a positive effect on the road safety of cyclists .
20 Here , the introduction of the hybrid maize variety SR 52 has had a dramatic effect on yields of maize .
21 Ian and Barbara meet — the latter having had a difficult time avoiding Nero 's amorous advances — and with the help of Tavius ( who is a Christian ) , they manage to escape from the city .
22 The new ethos of the '80s had had a positive effect on the character of the people , just as the ethos of the late ‘ 70s had a severely negative effect .
23 The great thing is that everybody has been to the cinema , and many have had a strange experience there . ’
24 Just as the barbarians themselves seem to have changed their policies about settlement , so too the Romans are unlikely to have had a monolithic system for settling the barbarians within the Roman Empire .
25 The patients in this study were older than the controls but that is unlikely to have had a significant effect on our results .
26 But at least the issue is now more lively and from 1974 the disabled have had a special Minister for the Disabled , at the Department of Social Security , to champion their cause and coordinate provision for their needs .
27 IT would have been pretty hard , given the Government 's troubles , for Labour to have had a bad Conference .
28 Export in particular has had a good year and during 1991 we are forecast to deliver an all time record tonnage of malt to 40 customers in 33 countries .
29 Of the players , Gooch in particular had had a good tour and was really beginning to fulfil his potential , but the difference between the two bowling attacks seemed just to be increasing .
30 Gatting in particular had had a good series , batting well and leading the team excellently ; with the first Test then drawn under his leadership , how different the rest of the summer might have been had he not invited the famous barmaid to his room .
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