Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know how many times I have had such replies on social security appeals that have been turned down . |
| 2 | Ash had never met Miss LaMotte , who indeed came out exceptionally to please me and to speak of her dear Father , whose Mythologies I have had some hand in bringing before the English public . |
| 3 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 4 | Ethologists have been particularly struck by the complexity of the behavioural responses of comparatively ‘ naïve ’ animals ( that is , animals which have had little opportunity to learn ) . |
| 5 | At the time of writing I am involved , as I mentioned , in some surveys of visitors to the British Museum and I am hoping that we shall be able to get some schools who had had organized visits to the museum , to obtain essays about the visit from the children involved . |
| 6 | After the winners were named the pair found it hard to convince some that their glamorous subjects were not professional models but clients who had had new images created for them in Mrs Simmons 's Skinnergate studio . |
| 7 | Several studies have shown that faecal bile acid excretion is appreciably raised in patients with cystic fibrosis and is comparable with that seen in subjects who have had ileal resection . |
| 8 | Another area of changed values which has had important effects is the growth of the concept of freedom and the decline in the importance of rules . |
| 9 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 10 | Certainly , parents who have had easy babies and amenable children may be unprepared for the changed behaviour that can characterize adolescence . |
| 11 | Take-up has stemmed partly from the wish of those companies trading internationally and particularly in the highly litigious US to protect their directors and partly because , as Willis Corroon 's Drew Hardie said , ‘ when directors who had had this cover then moved to other companies they asked for it to be part of their new contract ’ . |
| 12 | The cause for this is not clear but one factor could be the higher proportion of miners who had had gastric surgery . |
| 13 | Lastly , interviews were carried out with panel members , and with some of the solicitors who had had black clients , to explore their perceptions . |
| 14 | I was trying to pick up youngish artists who had had some recognition like Patrick Hughes . |
| 15 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 16 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 17 | Over the years I have had all sorts of lighter weight machines and I have gradually replaced them with either Wadkin or Robinson versions . |
| 18 | ‘ I have had to be flexible and open minded on selection for all of the six-and-a-half years I have had this job , ’ said Roxburgh . |
| 19 | I am 59 years of age and for the last fourteen years I have had curly perms . |
| 20 | ‘ I always loved bands who 've had classic debut singles , ’ he says . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's always the same person of course , although over the years she has had different names and come in various shapes and sizes . |
| 22 | The risk of developing cancer is increased in those individuals who have had extensive colitis for more than 10 years after the first attack , the cumulative cancer rate being 7% at 20 years and 17% at 30 years disease duration . |
| 23 | Just in recent weeks we have had public reports of a cardiologist who has had to turn seriously ill patients away because of the budget system — I am telling the truth about the health — |
| 24 | In two and a half days we 've had four men under |
| 25 | The wind resistant Tactel and Ebyl Thermovelours fleece helped keep me snug and warm on the few chilly days we 've had this summer . |
| 26 | In an attempt to quantify the risk , the Ministry of Defence in the UK commissioned a study of staff engaged in atomic weapons research at Aldermaston and associated establishments who had had repeated exposure to low levels of ionising radiation . |
| 27 | ‘ Every trophy is nice but perhaps this is our best of all because of the difficulties we 've had this summer . ’ |
| 28 | She remembered the difficulties they 'd had repairing Starlings after the war , when you could n't get a brick or a plank of wood , not even if you was royalty ; and she remembered comforting Nell as each granddaughter left home . |
| 29 | He was growing like a beanshoot and most of the things he had had last summer were too small . |
| 30 | While James devoted considerable space to William Wilberforce and less to the elder Stephen , Macaulay and others , George especially underlined the work of his father and Macaulay who were , he claimed , the only long-standing abolitionists who had had direct experience of the effects of the slave trade and slavery and who were portrayed as replacing Clarkson as the ‘ crutches ’ of the parliamentary antislavery leadership by the 1820s . |