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

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1 Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest .
2 A few months earlier , Sammy Woods of Australia and Harry Wood of England had had a near miss in this particular department , but it took a brace of Smiths to achieve a Test first .
3 Since the last time the survey was done ( 1976 ) , the south East of England has had a dreadful 82 per cent increase in the number of unfit houses .
4 For the manual working class the pattern of mobility has had a double-edged effect , on the one hand increasing the possibility of ‘ social advancement ’ ( although this remains slim for men who have passed their mid-20s ) , while on the other reducing the influx of people from other backgrounds .
5 Millions of visitors have had a nice day out and spent a lot of money .
6 For over 120 years , the House of Commons has had a Public Accounts Committee which has established a reputation as an impartial watchdog over government spending .
7 A free-speech amendment to a bill of rights has had a certain success that might be emulated .
8 But it is certainly true that in the last sixty years the various schools and academies of acting have had a significant effect on the climate of acting .
9 As 60 per cent of the cassava grown in this area is marketed in towns , a yield increase even of this order of magnitude has had a positive impact on urban food supplies .
10 The growth of EP has had a marked influence at the low end of the publishing business .
11 Seven of nine patients over 60 years of age have had a successful outcome .
12 A GROUP of MPs have had a narrow escape from gunfire in Bosnia .
13 TFM of Stockton have had a phenomenal response throughout its region , said its station manager Brian Lister .
14 If the answer to that question can not be verbalised succinctly then the meeting must have served some purpose other than the interchange of information fields ( it may for example have had a social value or a " credit " assessment value ) .
15 Advances in structuralism have had a belated impact on British historiography .
16 They had not ill-treated him in prison , but the fact that his future had been so very much in danger had had a tremendous influence on his morale .
17 Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden .
18 Unions in Japan have had a major influence on the way the labour market is structured , but this reflects principally the fact that union membership is in large part confined to regular workers in large firms .
19 It takes little knowledge of history to appreciate that relatively few of the battles recorded in history have had a decisive effect upon the future of those involved .
20 The intensely religious former viceroy of India and wartime ambassador to Washington has had a bad write-up .
21 Recent health scares over cling-film have had a knock-on effect on Tupperware and it has enjoyed a boom in sales .
22 So everyone working on the door at Ronnie 's had a good laugh at us while Strummer was hustling to get us in .
23 Spain by contrast has had a 40-year dictatorship which unlike those of Japan , Germany or Italy , is part of very recent history .
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