Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] have had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The growth of EP has had a marked influence at the low end of the publishing business . |
| 5 | TFM of Stockton have had a phenomenal response throughout its region , said its station manager Brian Lister . |
| 6 | Clearly the improvement of the unemployment situation in Scotland during the 1970s owes a great deal to the new employment opportunities created by the discovery of North Sea oil , whereas the political troubles in Ireland have had an adverse effect on the local employment situation there . |
| 7 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 8 | By the time of the committee 's first meeting on March 5 controversy had mounted further still as allegations were made that " names " working inside Lloyd 's had an unfair advantage in trading at the insurance market . |
| 9 | Overall , however , afforestation in Britain has had an adverse impact on bird populations ( Ratcliffe and Oswald 1987 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The intensely religious former viceroy of India and wartime ambassador to Washington has had a bad write-up . |
| 12 | So everyone working on the door at Ronnie 's had a good laugh at us while Strummer was hustling to get us in . |