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

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1 Nevertheless , the party with an honest policy and a swing to its campaign will be defeated by the party whose centrepiece is dishonest , and whose campaign has had all the swagger of a bedraggled old hen in a muddy farmyard .
2 It may be possible to delete this provision if the Purchaser can be satisfied that it has had all the Business 's contracts disclosed to it one way or another .
3 Anyone who has had such a ceiling sag under the strain will sympathise with this week 's debate in the Church of England synod .
4 Why Derrida has had such a vogue in America is indeed a puzzle , as Searle and others have acknowledged .
5 No strike since Franco has had such an impact .
6 To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what representations he has had supporting the principle of hospitals becoming trusts outside the national health service ; and if he will make a statement .
7 Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right .
8 ‘ And when you got back here , everyone could see that Walter was just a shell , just a husk you 'd had all the goodness out of .
9 he was like being shy but he 'd had all the side of his fur like shaved , and I thought urgh !
10 I 'd had half a tab at prayers in the morning but it had worn off by now .
11 If we 'd had half the help from British Government for crumbling schools we 've had from Europe , we 'd have had a lot more done .
12 He told her ‘ I wrote it ; and rejoice in having had such an opportunity of minutely observing the propriety of your behaviour .
13 ‘ I ca n't remember an England player having had such an impact on a team , ’ he said .
14 The Intelligence Corps instructor who had taught him the trade would have had such a lock open with one twist but Maxim was out of practice and the lock was old and arthritic .
15 Why on earth would he have had such a thing ?
16 Rarely can a goalkeeper have had such an incentive to shut out a former club than Rovers ' Bobby Mimms has at Ewood Park this afternoon .
17 Mr Major therefore made a stab at the second — though it might seem that after 11 years in office , Mrs Thatcher 's radical government should have had all the time it needed for tax reform .
18 Certainly Mike had all the time in the world to launch a right hook , but Patsy also must have had all the time in the world to see it , for he simply swayed back on his heels and the punch missed by over a foot .
19 The US in the first half of the 1980s appears to have had such a mechanism whereas in the UK the real wages of employees did not respond flexibly to high unemployment by falling .
20 This branch of the family had had all the material success which their poor Frome cousins lacked , together with the necessary altruism to help out as best they could .
21 Instead of the brilliant sunshine we had had all the week before it had started raining throughout the night and was still falling steadily .
22 Steve had had many a brush with Gordon long before the matter of Ephraim 's boots in his sports bag .
23 It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on .
24 It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on .
25 ‘ We 've had such a lot of fun with her , ’ Pauline says with obvious affection .
26 ‘ Poor darling , you 've had such a time and I keep rabbiting on and on about it .
27 I 've had many a weep , I can tell you . ’
28 ‘ I 've had all the education I need , thanks .
29 I think I 've had all the mango ones .
30 I mean I may have been being a bit naive as a general sort of , just a rep within NALGO , I 'm not I 'm not , although I 've had all the publicity , and yes I 'm , sometimes you do not the course .
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