Example sentences of "[noun sg] have had [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Federal Trade Commission 's investigation of Microsoft Corp has had an air of unreality about it , with few people imagining that it will come to anything very much or lead to any significant change in the market , but now that the thing may be coming to a climax , what are the possible outcomes ? |
| 2 | Greater Nottingham TEC says : ’ the current recession has had the effect of reducing the number of employer placements available . |
| 3 | Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time . |
| 4 | Commentators suggested that the attempt had had the support of wealthy former politicians , whose ambitions had been foiled by Babangida 's refusal to allow the " old guard " of politicians to stand for office on the return to party politics . |
| 5 | WP What do you think of the notion that much of the poetry produced in Eastern Europe as ‘ dissident ’ poetry has had a kind of easy ride because of its political context ? |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has had a number of discussions with the Council of Mortgage Lenders and others , and he will be announcing a package of measures later this afternoon . |
| 7 | Buttonhook has had a history of epics — possibly 5b ? |
| 8 | But the council has had a change of heart and is now looking at ways of funding the event . |
| 9 | No marriage has had the exposure of this one . |
| 10 | Now it seems thay 've had a change of heart and have decided that there 's room in the side for a specialist wicket keeper . |
| 11 | The boy 's had a bit of a whippin' , like . |
| 12 | Peruvian agrarian reform has had the effect of raising the consciousness of the peasantry . |
| 13 | On the other hand , they appreciate that the job has had a number of new tasks grafted onto it , adding to its scope and variety . |
| 14 | In conjunction with these developments , the increased involvement by the state in the quest for economic growth , and a growing preoccupation with national security has had the effect of converting issues of political policy into purely technical ones . |
| 15 | From the late Felix Vishnevski to the painter Ilya Glazunov , every major collector has had the reputation of being close to the authorities , in the unfavourable sense of the phrase . |
| 16 | erm I , as the Deputy Leader of the Labour group have had no approach of any sort in any form from any member of the Liberal Democrat group . |
| 17 | Forest have had a lot of dodgy results lately . |
| 18 | Print-making has had the advantage of some careful scholars , but an excellent book is by a practitioner , Stanley Hayter . |
| 19 | The commission has had the significance of this research confirmed by independent analysts , which leaves a serious problem to be explained and solved . |
| 20 | He continues : ‘ The commission has had the significance of this research confirmed by independent analysts , which leaves a serious problem to be explained and solved . ’ |
| 21 | Of all the agencies , only the Manpower Services Commission has had the control of the purse strings that allows positive steering ; with the exception of educational support and in-service training grants administered by the DES , the other agencies ' role has been confined to offering advice and expertise . |
| 22 | YOUR award-winning BNFL News has had the honour of representing Great Britain in a prestigious European editing competition . |
| 23 | Standing sex has had a bit of a bad press — mainly because it tends to be used for illicit love-making by young couples who have no bedroom to go to . |
| 24 | In this the government has had a measure of success in that twenty-three separate sales have gone ahead , and most of them have been greatly over-subscribed . |
| 25 | Deano has had a string of duff matches , yet Wilko sticks by him ! |
| 26 | The use of computers in cartography has had a number of effects ; first of all , cartography as a discipline has become more independent of geography . |
| 27 | Throughout my life my tummy has been , as it were , my Achilles heel ; and around this same time the condition of my colon , which for the latter part of my life has had a habit of tying itself in knots , became particularly acute . |
| 28 | Already in Carolingian times the imperial army had had a nucleus of fully trained warriors who served their lord in exchange for holding substantial fiefs . |
| 29 | Few on death row have had the sort of education enjoyed by jail-writers like Thoreau , Wilde , Gandhi and King , but from their cells the eloquence and reflection is unmistakable . |
| 30 | Some of the more rigorous statistical studies of style have had the purpose of discovering the author of works of doubtful attribution . |