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

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1 Indeed , ever since the Queensberry era began in 1892 every weight division has had a high proportion of middle-class world champions and contenders — men for whom deprivation was having T-bone steaks only twice instead of thrice a week [ see table ] .
2 Punk rock had had a purging effect on pop music ; clearing out the old to make way for the new .
3 The rest of the Peachtree side have had a mixed time .
4 The erm other side of the coin is if the blood donor has had a liquid lunch And what do I mean by liquid
5 M&TIS Calibration laboratory has had a long and successful association with Rosemount providing calibrations of differential pressure transducers , typically to an accuracy of 0.09% at 500mbar differential and 200 bar static pressure .
6 Rural population growth has had a distinctive regional pattern , which is , of course , the inverse of that observed for rural depopulation .
7 But more subtly , lack of job satisfaction has had a profound effect on their morale and ‘ staying power ’ .
8 The computer revolution has had a profound effect on the mathematics associated with the analysis of computer programs .
9 The example of our colleagues in the higher education sector has had a major , positive influence on the educational methods employed by nurse educators , even if the initial response to this has at times been guarded by the ‘ old school ’ establishment .
10 Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed .
11 Already , the development activity has had a massive physical and economic impact , especially in the western part of Docklands and on the Isle of Dogs in particular , with spillovers into surrounding areas such as Greenwich and North Southwark ( Figure 1 ) .
12 In the case study , the movement to a formula-based capitation system has had a profound managerial effect .
13 Matza ( 1969 ) was particularly influential in proposing that the correctionalist stance had had a distorting effect in criminology , and in advocating an alternative .
14 An appeal for bellringer recruits for Guisborough Parish Church has had a resounding response .
15 Over the years their percentage of television time has had a direct correlation to the increase in prize-money .
16 Nynex Corp 's New England Telephone & Telegraph Co has had a clean bill of health from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which affirmed the double-A-minus senior unsecured debt rating , and said long-term outlook is positive .
17 The decline of British manufacturing industry has had a devastating impact on the inner cities where such a large proportion of the black population live and this has been exacerbated by racial discrimination by employers to yield high levels of black youth unemployment ( Martin and Rowthorn , 1986 ; Newnham , 1986 ) .
18 The fortunes of manned space travel have had a rough ride in the past few years , with the United States finally joining Europe in questioning the costs of such programmes in times of recession .
19 Cochrane 's criticism of the impact of health care has had a lasting influence and is often used to undermine health services .
20 In London , the combination of exceptionally low community charge levels and big swings to the Conservatives in Wandsworth and Westminster and , conversely , an almost equally poor Labour performance in charge-capped Brent and Hammersmith and Fulham , seemed to provide prima facie evidence that the poll tax had had a significant impact on behaviour .
21 How ICI halved the value of its shareholders ' funds 20 years of 10% a year inflation has had a significant impact on the accounts of ICI and GEC
22 Donor support in drug supply has had a patchy record .
23 Nonetheless , implementation independence has had a powerful effect on AI thinking about metaphysical problems , and has been behind McCarthy 's insistence that AI must be defined as the study of intelligent mechanisms independent of their implementation in machines or brains , and hence to a general denial that AI is , in any strong sense , about machines .
24 Alan Smith , commercial director of Vista Computer Systems , said : ‘ The new VAT legislation has had a profound effect on computer systems used by publishers .
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