Example sentences of "have have [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Earthworms can also be stored alive in damp leaf mould placed in an icecream tub which has had small holes punched in the lid .
2 He has had ample opportunity to exercise leadership , which he almost invariably directs along positive channels , and has improved in the various skills .
3 He has had ample time to understand what the world wants him to do .
4 Patient 201 is now 54 years of age and has had epidermoid cysts removed as well as having a large jaw osteoma .
5 the parents ' approach to toilet training and methods of managing the enuresis to determine whether the child has had appropriate opportunity to learn to be dry or whether undue stress and anxiety has been generated
6 The SNP has had Labour doing somersaults for months on Opposition cross-party co-operation .
7 Any attempt to produce the letter for the first time at completion should be resisted and completion delayed until the purchaser has had adequate time to consider the disclosures .
8 When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds .
9 If an aid is granted without informing the Commission or before the Commission has had sufficient time to examine the aid , the Court has recently held that the Commission has power to take interim measures ordering the member states concerned to suspend the aid and provide the Commission with all relevant information .
10 It broadcast the opening speeches on each day of the debate on the Queen 's Speech in 1989 ( when televising started ) ; it has stayed on after 3.50 pm on some Tuesdays or Thursdays to cover important ministerial statements ; and it has had special editions to cover the Budget and other major debates .
11 In London , Buckingham Place has had special designs woven for its splendid interiors .
12 Darwinian selection has to have genetic variation to work on .
13 ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’
14 What they should 've done , instead of having all them machines on that moors they should 've had damn bugger stripped to waist digging it out .
15 It must have had substantial embankments leading to it , for the nearby ground level is that of the line .
16 She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries .
17 The loops and rings around it would have had small bells attached to them , and at the broken end would have been a piece of coral or ivory to act as a teether .
18 Given the complexities of Merovingian family politics , Chlothar 's denial of paternity is not conclusive : he may have had good reason to disassociate himself from Gundovald 's mother .
19 Of course , he might have had dental work done abroad . "
20 Equally problematic is the validity of Sidonius 's very cultured presentation of the barbarian courts of Theodoric II , Euric and Chilperic I. Here , the author might have had political reasons to present the barbarians in as positive a light as possible .
21 We 've tinkered with the list a bit , and lots of people with dicky UK addresses will have had inscrutable messages saying you 've been subbed onto the list again .
22 At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out .
23 Just as well someone had rung Catherine half an hour ago , or they 'd both still have been asleep , and he would have had difficult questions to answer in the morning about why he had been , uncharacteristically , out of touch with everyone since leaving Yeo Davis at six .
24 Some parishes contained chapelries or chapels-of-ease , which may or may not have had independent rights to perform baptism , marriage and burial ceremonies .
25 There are remains of four levels of wall , the lowest of which would have had wooden gates to protect its main entrance .
26 By 1525 in the latter shire a quarter of the personal estate in a sample of forty villages was owned by 4 per cent of the rural population , excluding the squires — clearly there were some members of the peasantry who must have had sufficient wealth to dominate their fellows ( 81 , pp.26–7 ; 83 , pp.17 , 142 ) .
27 The Institute felt that such a panel would have to have legal powers to enforce standards if necessary , as the UK panel does , and has asked the government to take the appropriate steps .
28 The owner claimed to have had reasonable grounds to believe the truth of his misrepresentation because the Lloyd 's Register had ( in a rare mistake ) wrongly stated the payload as 1,800 tons .
29 Police worked with the Borough Council which owns the garages ; many were found to have had extra locks fitted , even though no-one 's named as a tenant .
30 The buffet provided at this year 's Meeting with the opportunity to meet and chat with other members does not seem to have had sufficient appeal to justify another evening out .
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