Example sentences of "the [noun] have have a " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ If the law has to have a proper effect then landlords and breweries should know that to serve young people like this , they are in danger of losing their licences . ’ |
| 32 | Interestingly , a majority of companies both on and off the zones considered that if anything the zones had had a beneficial effect on local business , local economic development , environmental improvements and public- and private-sector investment . |
| 33 | I believe that our membership of the ERM has had a major influence on the recession in the United Kingdom . |
| 34 | But Kathie put life into perspective when her mother telephoned and , instead of enthusing at my achievement , Kathie said , ‘ The cat 's had a boil on its head . ’ ’ |
| 35 | The boy 's had a bit of a whippin' , like . |
| 36 | With puffins still zooming around the landing bay , we left for the mainland having had a marvellous day . |
| 37 | The Conservatives likewise were aroused by the prospect of a weakening of Labour 's hold on Scotland and Wales , as the Conservatives had had a constant majority at every post-1945 general election in England ; it was the Celtic fringe that tilted the balance in favour of Labour . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | ‘ The child has had a mild fit , ’ said the apothecary , turning Anna on to her stomach . |
| 40 | Patience , mon vieux , she told herself , the lady 's had a hard time . |
| 41 | The shop has had a chequered history : it opened as a Sherratt & Hughes , and was an early incursion by a chain retailer into an area dominated by , and largely reserved for , independents . |
| 42 | The USSR had had a long-standing military relationship with Afghanistan but the scale of the Soviet military intervention in that country in the 1980s and the forms it took were quite unprecedented in Soviet-Third World relations . |
| 43 | In Mr Bullins 's opinion , the war had had a regrettable effect upon Oxford , and even upon Magdalen . |
| 44 | The war had had a differential impact on the economies , with Belgium much less adversely affected than the Netherlands . |
| 45 | Soon after Presley died , local coroner Dr Jerry Francisco went on television to tell a grieving world that the singer had had a massive heart attack , which was supposedly confirmed by the post-mortem examination . |
| 46 | The SDA has had a wider set of powers than those readily available to UDCs in England , but it has used them . |
| 47 | He also pointed out in the report that the excavation produced a disproportionate number of cosmetic articles , although the significance of this evidence is not clear ; the case for the site having had a religious function is strengthened by a consideration of the other buildings . |
| 48 | But the town had to have a gaol to justify its claim . |
| 49 | The team 's products easily outsell those of other American baseball clubs overseas , even though the Yankees have had a mediocre record on the field in recent years . |
| 50 | But perhaps the joke had had a serious point to it too , or at any rate a serious side-effect : it had enabled Hilda to get her side of the story over to posterity . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Within sight of power , the group has had a public bust-up likely to reduce its appeal in the forthcoming election . |
| 53 | Jerome Fanshawe 's office was in Eastcheap and the hairdresser 's had a barber 's shop attached to it . |
| 54 | The archer had to have a face . |
| 55 | She recognizes that historically the concept has had a significant place in the vocabulary of political theory and notes that legal theorists continue to invoke the concept and argue about its meaning . |
| 56 | ‘ The Commissioner has had a word with the Home Office . |
| 57 | I wanted Duke Michael to think that I was still very ill , so we told the newspapers that the King had had a very serious accident . |
| 58 | Free-electron lasers on the whole have had a rather bad press . |
| 59 | In relation to its national income the UK has had a disproportionately very large number of companies among the largest 500 in the world [ Prais , 1976 ] . |
| 60 | The concierge would listen at the door with a running commentary : ‘ The Italian 's had a drop ’ , or ‘ the Englishwoman seems to be winning ’ . |