Example sentences of "who have have the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Anyone who has had the privilege of handling the book , even though he may never possess it , will not dispute the wisdom of the £13,000 it has fetched . |
| 2 | GILLIAN LEDSON , 19 , is a retail business student who has had the experience of being made unemployed twice in five weeks . |
| 3 | In many ways the challenge of qualifying games could have made life much easier for Vogts , who has had the problem of motivating his team to play two years of friendlies before they defend their World Cup crown in 1994 . |
| 4 | The supposedly irritable elderly person is often the one who has had the gall to defend against such ( often unintended ) ‘ put-downs ’ . |
| 5 | Old-fashioned or external sanitary towels , as anyone who has had the misfortune to make use of them will know , are dreadfully uncomfortable : they will not stay in place , they leak , and they chafe . |
| 6 | There is also no need for a person who has had the HIV antibody test to tell their GP that they have done so , especially if the result was negative . |
| 7 | The vicar takes out the four balls and the waxman , Mr Tommy Temple , who has had the job since 1940 , carefully cuts away the wax and the names are read out . |
| 8 | Anyone who has had the courage to do that is ready for the next stage . |
| 9 | This official was furious when it appeared that Oslear had spoken to media men about his determination to back Palmer and Hampshire , as well as Lamb , the only England cricketer who has had the courage to take on the cricket establishment . |
| 10 | I hope that after his next public performance of Odyssey , Simon Rattle will be encouraged to take this amazing score and hold it high in honour of this wonderful composer , of whom we know so little , who has had the courage to write such stirring and inspirational music , at heavenly lengths , in our time . |
| 11 | Of course , ’ he added with a twisted smile , ‘ it was n't until your last day in the office that I realised you were under the impression that it was I who 'd had the affair with Elise . ’ |
| 12 | There was a pile of coffee pots , cutlery and rotten linen already in the garden that had been buried there by the waiter who 'd had the house before me ! |
| 13 | In her first term at St Cecilia 's there 'd been a girl who 'd had the gift of levitation , a disturbed girl called Julie who had been able to float eight feet above the ground , whom Miss Scuse had eventually had to have removed . |
| 14 | Ho ho Keith , some wags at the NME have taken to calling MAW ‘ musicians against success ’ because — get this — those musicians who 've had the guts to stand up and be counted like Sinead O'Connor , The Farm , Carter USM , Cud , Billy Bragg , Lisa Stansfield , The Stones , Lush , Orbital and Soho are all ‘ failures that no-one 's heard of ’ . |
| 15 | The castle or the fortified town restricted the movements of mobile field armies ; in particular , it was effective against the rapid raids of Magyars , with their lightly armed mounted archers , or the Vikings , with their swift ships , who had had the advantage of striking rapidly and ranging far . |
| 16 | Mean values were not significantly different ( Table I ) but the older women who had had the operation were more likely than their controls to report <5 defecations per week ( 27% v 9% , p<0.01 ) and also more likely to report <3 defecations per week ( 11% v 2% , p<0.025 ) . |
| 17 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 18 | Lucky to the extent of meeting a friend who had had the foresight to order a bottle of champagne for the interval . |
| 19 | Moreover , it suggested that foster parents who had had the care of a child for five years or more should be able to apply for an adoption order without risk of removal by parents before a hearing . |
| 20 | Sailors who had had the ship shot out from under them because of Mountbatten 's recklessness signed up for another tour , such were the inspirational qualities he possessed . |
| 21 | He had been at the head of the factional politics of Edward II 's middle years , and his rapid rise and precipitate fall typified the fate of others who had had the misfortune to enjoy Edward 's patronage . |
| 22 | Louise was equally anxious to see this man who had had the power to persuade her niece to go against her upbringing and character and behave so recklessly after such a brief acquaintance . |
| 23 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |
| 24 | " Those who have had the advantage of experience in such matters " , wrote Austen Layard , a contemporary of Wallace who had discovered the ancient city of Nineveh , " know that one of the results of fever is a considerable excitement of the brain , consequent audacity and no small additional loquacity only limited by physical debility . " |
| 25 | Hysterectomy ca n't be too bad : 96% of a group of Australian women who have had the operation say they are pleased to have had it , while 55% say they wish that they had had it sooner ! |
| 26 | ‘ It is especially high among transsexuals who have had the operation and have then regretted it later , ’ said Mr Rees , who himself spent five months in a psychiatric ward during his teens because of depression . |
| 27 | Clinton has seen off those who have had the guts to compete for the prize . |
| 28 | Competition is what keeps industry moving , and indeed those of us who have had the experience know that almost the most difficult industrial task is to run a near monopoly . |
| 29 | New moves tend to come from middle-class artists who have had the opportunity to absorb a great deal early and feel sufficiently confident in an educational and financially secure context to move it along . |
| 30 | Do these changes mean ( since all of us who have had the privilege of working with Indians know the tremendous intellectual power of that nation ) that India will begin to play the role in the world which many of us have expected and foreseen ? |