Example sentences of "of [noun] have have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since interest rates started falling millions of homeowners have had the chance to remortgage their home and pocket lower interest deals . |
| 2 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 3 | A few months earlier , Sammy Woods of Australia and Harry Wood of England had had a near miss in this particular department , but it took a brace of Smiths to achieve a Test first . |
| 4 | Since the last time the survey was done ( 1976 ) , the south East of England has had a dreadful 82 per cent increase in the number of unfit houses . |
| 5 | For the manual working class the pattern of mobility has had a double-edged effect , on the one hand increasing the possibility of ‘ social advancement ’ ( although this remains slim for men who have passed their mid-20s ) , while on the other reducing the influx of people from other backgrounds . |
| 6 | ‘ I feel sure that if the Corporation of Exeter had had the facts of the present case brought before them they would never have insisted upon the payment of a toll which they clearly would have had no right to insist on if the plaintiff had but claimed exemption upon landing the limestone . |
| 7 | You may have noticed over the last three slides that several of sites have had a zero er percentage registered and we certainly feel that in a couple of these sites this was probably due to poor note-keeping rather than a percentage . |
| 8 | Millions of visitors have had a nice day out and spent a lot of money . |
| 9 | For over 120 years , the House of Commons has had a Public Accounts Committee which has established a reputation as an impartial watchdog over government spending . |
| 10 | For instance , UK booksellers selling by mail to Denmark and exceeding an annual Ecu35,000 ( £25,000 ) threshold of business have to have a VAT registration in Denmark and to charge the 25% Danish rate of VAT on all sales to unregistered customers . |
| 11 | A free-speech amendment to a bill of rights has had a certain success that might be emulated . |
| 12 | But it is certainly true that in the last sixty years the various schools and academies of acting have had a significant effect on the climate of acting . |
| 13 | As 60 per cent of the cassava grown in this area is marketed in towns , a yield increase even of this order of magnitude has had a positive impact on urban food supplies . |
| 14 | So far , groups of crew have had an induction course and what is called ‘ a long sail ’ , when they spend several days acquainting themselves with the boat and gear , absorbing everything from how the cooker is switched on and how to flush the head to hoisting the mainsail and steering . |
| 15 | Professionals in academic institutions often have an administrative and managerial role within the institution ; and over 80% of managers have had a college education , half of them studying liberal arts subjects . |
| 16 | The growth of EP has had a marked influence at the low end of the publishing business . |
| 17 | Though I still felt drunk , my stomach ached and my throat felt like a couple of hedgehogs had had a fight in it , I did feel a lot better . |
| 18 | Seven of nine patients over 60 years of age have had a successful outcome . |
| 19 | ‘ Uptake of vaccine is very variable — one study showed that only about 49 per cent of GPs have had the vaccination , for example , even though the GP is just as much at risk as any other doctor . ’ |
| 20 | A GROUP of MPs have had a narrow escape from gunfire in Bosnia . |
| 21 | Nobody yet in the whole history of mankind has had the strength to resist doing what lies in their power to do , just to prove that they can . |
| 22 | ‘ It seemed as if quite a lot of people had had the same dream — or a similar one , at least — there were similar elements in all of them . |
| 23 | Some of the more rigorous statistical studies of style have had the purpose of discovering the author of works of doubtful attribution . |
| 24 | Michel Strauss of Sotheby 's had no difficulty identifying last month 's Page three as René Magritte 's ‘ La Philosophie dans le Boudoir ’ . |
| 25 | TFM of Stockton have had a phenomenal response throughout its region , said its station manager Brian Lister . |
| 26 | Communitarian concepts of organization have had no locational monopoly within the imagination of reformers of a ‘ left ’ persuasion . |
| 27 | How strange that since the eighteenth century the peasants of Møn had had a taste for English ware . |
| 28 | The people of Wales have had the misfortune of having a concentration of poll tax fanatics representing them in Whitehall . |