Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have have [art] " in BNC.

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1 I must go and enquire if the artists have had a successful afternoon . ’
2 However , no occasion has yet arisen on which the courts have had an opportunity to demonstrate the Convention as having practical effect in this aspect .
3 The Germans have had a different structure of labour laws for many years .
4 This description , at the very start of our literature , sets the tone for accounts of wetlands , which through the ages have had a consistently bad press .
5 If it is too strong , the soil will be dry before the animals have had a chance to move out of it and they will die in the soil .
6 He says … he says one of the cars has had an accident in the rain .
7 In this time it seems that all other areas of the Lakes have had a new guide , and some of them two .
8 ‘ Jesus Christ , Piper , the mauses have had a bloody good go at you last night .
9 Despite all that those and others have contributed to Scottish rugby , the exiles have had a tempered love-hate relationship with us back home .
10 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 .
11 Certainly the scousers have had the better results , Saturdays was no big deal … 2–0 at home to 10 men Sheff Wed who were totally impotent up front .
12 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 .
13 ‘ You go to a dinner party and find that three of the guests have had an elderly parent murdered . ’
14 The crinoids have had an eventful geological history .
15 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 .
16 The 34-year-old star of Bonfire Of The Vanities has had the implants — which only last a few months — twice before .
17 But in the meantime the investors have had the benefit of a gross roll-up of interest and the flexibility of deferring their tax charge until it suits them which , of course , may be at a time when the tax charge is lower or after they have emigrated .
18 EVER since Greece won its freedom from the Turks in the 1820s — no , ever since the Turks took Constantinople on that black Tuesday at the end of May in 1453 — the Greeks have had a Megali Idea , a Great Idea .
19 The Vice Chancellor , Sir Donald Nicholls , in granting an adjournment , confirmed that the liquidators have had an exceedingly difficult task .
20 The Americans have had the title in their country for too long .
21 The Americans have had the title in their country for too long .
22 In conclusion , the donors have had a profound impact on the Mozambican NHS .
23 ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) .
24 The winner will be the first Six in which all the members have had a go at egg rolling and have returned to their places .
25 The Tigers have had a political wing since 1976 but never registered it as a legal party .
26 Namely , he will be inviting your Lordship to er look at whether or not the business the plaintiff 's would have failed in any event er because it is the defendants case relying er extensively upon the opinion of their expert Mr er that even if the plaintiffs had had the finances which were originally anticipated and had completed the deal in accordance with that , the probabilities are that this business would have failed in any event and that they would have incurred the losses they did er so I anticipate there is going to be a dispute between us as to the basis in which your Lordship is to determine compensation in this case .
27 The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected .
28 There had been no guard rails and the men had had no experience or instructions to carry out the job .
29 That while recognising that the men have had a real grievance in that some firms have employed an unfair proportion of young girls at apprentice wages , or nearly so , we women regard it as a great injustice that one of the main skilled industries open to Edinburgh women should be closed against them .
30 Joan asked if the police had had a warrant and she replied , ‘ Yes . ’
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