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

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1 But the book does explore the emotional effect that this major change has on a small boy 's life in a clever and very unusual way .
2 The Ugandan capital Kampala has seen the devastating effect that civil war has on a sophisticated engineering scheme .
3 Please add any additional comments you may have on a separate piece of paper , in no more than 100 words .
4 In practice this should mean that the design of consents has been influenced less by conceptions about the similarity of discharges than by a scientific analysis of the impact a particular discharge may have on a particular watercourse and the polluting load that that watercourse can accept , according to agency plans for river quality .
5 One had on a black top , the other a white top with a red waistcoat style jacket .
6 She had on a superb raspberry pink swagger coat .
7 He had on a three-quarter-length crombie with a velvet collar , a dark-blue suit with the faintest of pin-stripes and a snowy linen shirt .
8 She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt .
9 She was had on a full stomach .
10 I had on a white guipure lace dress and matching turban with a huge feather on the front .
11 When it was all over I had on a wet blouse , but Shirnette had one on too .
12 Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool .
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