Example sentences of "who have have the [noun sg] " 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 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 .
7 Anyone who has had the courage to do that is ready for the next stage .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 . ’
11 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 !
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 ) .
15 Lucky to the extent of meeting a friend who had had the foresight to order a bottle of champagne for the interval .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 …
21 " 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 . "
22 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 !
23 ‘ 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 ?
27 These same characteristics can often be found — with far less excuse — in well-seasoned travellers who have had the privilege of sampling far and wide .
28 Listen I 've got , Vernon I I 've got some people who have had the side effects .
29 Others who have had the courage to stand up and be counted include Miss Doina Cornea , a former professor of French , now on hunger strike in the ethnic Hungarian city of Cluj ; Mr Gabriel Andreescu , a geophysicist in Bucharest ; and Mr Mirca Dinescu , a poet , also in Bucharest .
30 It is not uncommon for a couple who have had the sadness of producing a heavily disabled or diseased baby to find that they later lose their desire for intercourse .
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