Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Ethnic ’ Scottish rock has had a good decade , something Adamson has mixed feelings about . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We are just glad the whole unfortunate episode has had a happy ending . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She held on tight to him , murmuring , ‘ Oh , my darling , hug Mummy , hold on to poor Mummy , poor Mummy 's had a terrible shock . ’ |
| 11 | • 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Like the generals , the Colonial Office had had a good war . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Much post-modernist art has had a critical and contestatory function which is all too easily overlooked . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In another study Frost and Spence ( 1984 , 145 ) also argue that industrial restructuring has had a negligible impact on changes in employment patterns , either positively or negatively , and that these are anyway offset by ‘ very rapid growth in certain service activities ’ , notably the health services , to produce the different patterns of change shown in Figure 5.7 . |
| 18 | Psychoanalytic thinking has had a deep influence on psychiatry and psychology in the twentieth century , but this has been by no means decisive , and its increasingly fragmented theories have been subjected to continuous criticism . |
| 19 | Himalayan skiing has had a long and painfully slow gestation period beginning with the activities of various Indian Army Officers in the early part of the century . |
| 20 | Following the ‘ Genius of Venice ’ exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1983–84 , Venetian sixteenth-century painting has had a good decade , with numerous major monographic shows . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , concern about the loss of agricultural land has had a major impact on development plans , on planning decisions , and on appeal decisions . |
| 22 | Though Ronnie Shade , in his halcyon days as an amateur , came as close as any golfer one has seen to hitting shot after shot without any discernible sidespin , most of the elite of professional golf have had a preferred shape of shot since — and probably long before — the days of Harry Vardon and his fade . |
| 23 | There can be little doubt that the survey since its modern inception has had a major impact on social research , and any history of social research has to award it a salient place . |
| 24 | Consequently , developments in the international financial structure have had a decisive influence on how wealth-creating activities are divided among nations . |
| 25 | Throughout the world we can see how the engineering , interventionist model of Western medicine has had a major influence on definitions and explanations about health , as well as on the organisation of health services and the utilisation of resources . |
| 26 | Much academic political sociology has had a similar relation to political life . |
| 27 | The Portuguese coach has had a trouble-strewn qualifying section so far . |
| 28 | In the UK , preferential tax treatment for imported wine has had a serious adverse effect on our domestic spirits industry . |
| 29 | As to the first question , it is evident that the working-class movement has had a profound influence upon the extension of the suffrage and the creation of mass parties ( which will be examined further in Chapter 2 ) , and hence upon the establishment of a democratic political regime as it now exists in the advanced capitalist countries . |
| 30 | Remember the cuts in the people 's rights at industrial tribunals that have had a profound effect on employment rights , the attack on local democracy , rate capping , the cuts of tax on local government have had a devastating effect on housing and the social fabric of local community . |