Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC has not had a top sales executive since John Shields left the company in 1990 to take over the helm at doomed Prime Computer Inc . |
| 2 | Caterham has already had a significant success in the US when it was invited to compete in the Sports Cars of America 's 24-hour race in Ohio , and won . |
| 3 | Williams explained in the court that the MRF had just had a new intake of NCOs . |
| 4 | So if the two eat very much the same , but , for example , Ann had always had a small packet of peanuts with her evening drink , then she will have to give up those peanuts permanently to stay slim for ever . |
| 5 | Dana had always had a fine sense of her own importance , and Claudia was n't certain she would consider another woman 's need before her own desires . |
| 6 | Like those of Caracas , the stations of Mexico have generally had a bad press . |
| 7 | This area of Falkirk has always had a resident population of these handsome but predatory birds . |
| 8 | And although Scotland has not had a wide reaching policy of moving psychiatric patients out of hospitals , community care for mentally ill people has advanced spontaneously . |
| 9 | Fortunately Scotland has always had a fine reservoir of comic talent and so I found the idea of letting a Scottish company loose on these plays totally irresistible . |
| 10 | Neil Welliver has always had a special fondness for trees . |
| 11 | Eva has always had a special relationship with Margaret , the younger , quieter sister but the ones at the top of the family are also high ill her esteem.Joyce was loved for the way she helped " mother " them and Beverley , the eldest boy , was another of her heroes . |
| 12 | Does n't anybody else want to get up and scream DAVID HARVEY ! ! ! at the television , when ex wino Greavesie says Scotland have n't had a decent keeper in thirty years . |
| 13 | Unusually among popular music entertainers Mr Faith has always had a strong awareness of financial matters , trading up his homes and investing wisely . |
| 14 | ‘ First team coach Liam O'Kane has always had a good relationship with the players and he , too , would come into contention . |
| 15 | Up to now , the patch of land off Whessoe Road has n't had a great deal going for it . |
| 16 | Because Hemsworth has always had a large Labour majority , it sounds like a great monolith , but it is very far from that . |
| 17 | According to Marenches , he and the Shah had long had an excellent relationship . |
| 18 | What the , I believe committees have never had and least of all Mr papers produced on behalf of Mr have never had a serious rigorous objective assessment of the vacancy situation of the future which first of all starts from issue a rolling programme of refurbishments that we have n't really seen sight of the of the implications of that on the number of vacancies . |
| 19 | As a New Town , Cramlington has always had a dual function . |
| 20 | Tohmatsu had never had a European accountant on secondment before , but the Scot , who sounds like a Japanese native speaker on the phone , slotted in effortlessly . |
| 21 | Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe . |
| 22 | Compared with most of Europe and Japan , but surprisingly not with the United States , Britain has historically had a low rate of economic growth . |
| 23 | Donnison and Soto point out that the ‘ establishment ’ in Britain has always had a dismissive attitude to the third category . |
| 24 | In one way , this lack of British involvement contributes to a view that , even before the shifts and lapses of the 1930s and 1950s , Britain has always had an impoverished experimental tradition , repeatedly needing to borrow from France , Ireland , the USA or wherever , to compensate for a bankruptcy of energies in the domestic context . |
| 25 | Outline the evidence that Mercury has never had an appreciable atmosphere . |
| 26 | Mr Morton has always had a powerful ally in the shape of the Bank of England . |
| 27 | The changing face of Eastern Europe has already had a dramatic affect on the malt market and as the political and economic climate becomes more stable new opportunities will doubtless emerge . |
| 28 | Municipal socialism in Britain had always had a puritanical element to it , and debates about sexual choice were no part of this tradition . |
| 29 | Secondly , if West had not had a likely looking entry perhaps the opening lead would have been different . |
| 30 | Deaf schools in Britain have traditionally had a long involvement in the Scout and Girl Guide movement , but Scouting has not been confined simply to schoolboys and schoolgirls . |