Example sentences of "have have [art] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly we must hope that the government in its final response will take the arguments put forward by Alvey somewhat further ; after all it has had the best part of six months to consider them . |
| 2 | The south east has had the sharpest rise in failures — up 54.7 per cent . |
| 3 | During the past twenty five years Italy has had the highest strike rate in Europe . |
| 4 | This means that claims by UK citizens under the Convention must always be pursued to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to obtain judgment , with the result that the UK has had the highest number of judgments made against it by the European Court of Human Rights for one or more violations of the Convention 's terms . |
| 5 | So while Glasgow can lay claim to having had the earliest adult deaf organisation , Edinburgh 's Deaf Society has the longest continuous existence . |
| 6 | Ayr , Irvine and Kilmarnock Academies could each lay claim to having had the largest number of scholars who went on to great things but , before these grander seats of learning were established , several small , seemingly totally inadequate schools had produced a succession of men of whom the county can be proud . |
| 7 | I would n't call those highly inventive moves mere dancing ; they bordered on an act that would have had the best strip-tease artists in the country seething with jealousy . |
| 8 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
| 9 | It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction . |
| 10 | Using my 7 × 50 binoculars I was able to locate it at once , though I would not have had the slightest hope of finding it had I not been told exactly where it was . |
| 11 | Although few in the audience could have had the slightest idea of what the songs were about , their power to move was undiminished by the language barrier ; such was their skill in vocal expression that the audience could tell which of the songs were mildly comic . |
| 12 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 13 | He seems to have had the strongest instinct for cover . |
| 14 | The last to come back were Schott and Warr who had had the greatest distance to travel . |
| 15 | It is evident that the priests who served St Martin knew how to jade a horse and to attribute its state to the saint 's intervention ; and if Gibbon had had the slightest suspicion of how the miracle had been performed he would have used a much stronger form of irony than a mere italicizing of the word itself . |
| 16 | She had had the barest glimpse of it , for it had vanished at once , but somehow it had left her with an uncanny impression that was not particularly pleasant . |
| 17 | In the Middle Ages it had had the richest monastery in Britain . |
| 18 | I 've had the roughest edges knocked off it when I went to University . |
| 19 | we 've had the coldest year |
| 20 | IMP had to have the latest print-outs of the disaster . |
| 21 | We decided at that time to follow Brosman 's erm regimen which er had had the lowest recurrence rate then reported . |
| 22 | The only journalism which I have done regularly is with the NI which is the group with which I have had the best understanding during my stay in Europe . |
| 23 | Oxfordshire have had the toughest task of all against the championship leaders Glamorgan at swansea … they got some early wickets but then came up against a chap called Richards … |
| 24 | He points out that since the Korean War those countries with the highest growth rates — Japan , Sweden , Germany and Austria — have had the lowest levels of military expenditure as a percentage of GDP . |
| 25 | Comics have had the greatest punchbags and been the antidote to 12 years of Republican rule . |
| 26 | In connection with these principles Saussure introduced two further oppositions , both of which have had the greatest importance for the development of modern linguistics : the opposition between synchronic and diachronic language study , and that between syntagmatic and associative relationships in the language-system . |
| 27 | But that would not explain why some of the sermons that have had the greatest impact on us have not necessarily been high on the performance scale . |
| 28 | Although hardware developments have been significant , it is the development of new software and the associated administration systems which have had the greatest impact on the organisation , particularly so in the case of the Payroll/Personnel System . |
| 29 | The amalgamation of properties would , perhaps , have had the greatest effect since the main purpose would have been economy of management . |
| 30 | We have had the smallest number of new home completions in the city since 1982-83 . |