Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] have had [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Since the Second World War , swings Left and Right have had a knack of coinciding on both sides of the Atlantic , with Wilson riding on the post-Kennedy-Johnson wave , Callaghan coming back with Carter , and Margaret Thatcher heralding the Reaganite counter-revolution .
2 What appears of particular concern is that the increase in ultraviolet radiation coincides with the time when ocean surface organisms are emerging from the dark winter period and thus have had no time to adapt to the sun , let alone enhanced levels of damaging UV-B radiation .
3 She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress .
4 It was found , time and again , that they were not , as moralists feared , abandoned by unfeeling children , but either had had no children or the children were dead , far away , or too poor to feed another family member .
5 They might as well have had a rope round his ankle .
6 I might as well have had the game as well as the name . ’
7 Mozart was anxious to receive another commission to write an opera ; he knew that there was a possibility that he might be asked to write one of the operas for the Naples carnival season , but as yet had had no confirmation .
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