Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless some of the patients with an intact pouch have had a relatively satisfactory short term outcome . |
| 2 | In recent years , the life-history technique has had a revival in sociological research , being used by those who wish to develop ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 3 | German cinema has had a low profile of late , with the most feted film being ‘ The Nasty Girl ’ by Michael Verhoeven which took the Silver Lion at last year 's Berlin Film Festival , and received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film . |
| 4 | ‘ Ethnic ’ Scottish rock has had a good decade , something Adamson has mixed feelings about . |
| 5 | The only English team in Scottish football has had a dramatic season , not least because a former chairman best not named for what are darkly known as legal reasons faces charges of stealing over £60,000 from club coffers . |
| 6 | Amstrad Plc 's Personal Digital Assistant due for launch on Thursday sounds like a pretty hot property : the Daily Mail has had a sneak preview , and says that it is a £300 device that fits a jacket pocket with a pen-enabled screen on which the user can write notes and draw pictures that can be dumped onto a personal computer — ‘ looks good , feels good and is very clever ’ says the guy that saw it . |
| 7 | Presumably the regret that Flaubert was n't more involved in life is n't just a philanthropic wish for him : if only old Gustave had had a wife and kiddies , he would n't have been so glum about the whole shooting-match ? |
| 8 | It is the aim of this chapter to examine these theoretical issues , especially the Keynesian versus monetarist debate , since theoretical controversy has had a profound influence on the attitude of most governments towards monetary policy as an approach to macroeconomic management . |
| 9 | Helpfully , the council added that : ‘ It should be pointed out that this action would be taken against all allotment holders , whether or not any individual holder has had a bonfire prior to the service of a notice . |
| 10 | Whatever the causes , the rise in part-time work has had a profound effect on the employment conditions and prospects of a growing number of workers . |
| 11 | It was apparent to Cassie that the discovery that she wore very little beneath her outer clothing had had a powerfully erotic effect upon him , and now he pushed aside the bodice and gazed at her breast , at the same time remarking appreciatively : ‘ You 're an astonishing girl , Cassie . |
| 12 | Already in Carolingian times the imperial army had had a nucleus of fully trained warriors who served their lord in exchange for holding substantial fiefs . |
| 13 | Mrs Postance believes that the heavy digging already completed to prepare the ground for the national curriculum has had a beneficial effect , at least on the teachers , even if the children have yet to reap the harvest : ‘ It 's focused our minds on what we are teaching . |
| 14 | We are just glad the whole unfortunate episode has had a happy ending . ’ |
| 15 | Although the national gallery has had a limited grant , it has , by various means available to it , acquired not only a marvellous new building , but many great works of art . |
| 16 | Real natural selection has had a least a million times as many generations as I had , in which to perfect the resemblance . |
| 17 | Those normally at work but disabled by non-industrial illness have had a limited cover under National Insurance , and those who have never been in the workforce have very limited special provision and must rely on income support if they lack resources . |
| 18 | why were the Neanderthals , who as a species of human being had had a much longer pedigree , vulnerable to the Cro-Magnons ? |
| 19 | She held on tight to him , murmuring , ‘ Oh , my darling , hug Mummy , hold on to poor Mummy , poor Mummy 's had a terrible shock . ’ |
| 20 | The long night had had a result ; he was back in control again . |
| 21 | • John Watson had a hectic morning 's had a hectic morning 's pike fishing topped by this 26 lb 8 oz specimen from a south Norfolk lake . |
| 22 | I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear . |
| 23 | I at once thought that the poor fellow had had a pretty rough day and had gone to sleep as he had n't made a sound . |
| 24 | The finance of primary care has had a very different history ( Eckstein , 1964 ; Gilbert , 1966 ; Stevens , 1966 ; Honnigsbaum , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | In the history of sex the otherwise innocent ear has had a pretty bad deal . |
| 26 | Like the generals , the Colonial Office had had a good war . |
| 27 | Such people were either doctors of high status who knew the individual personally , or someone on the selection panel with particular knowledge of or interest in disability ; for example , a person interviewing a blind candidate had had a visually impaired son . |
| 28 | Monmonier ( 1982 , p. 2 ) believes that ‘ the digital computer has had a profound effect on maps , an effect that will equal or surpass the changes in mapping occasioned by the invention of the printing press and the discovery of photography ’ . |
| 29 | Much post-modernist art has had a critical and contestatory function which is all too easily overlooked . |
| 30 | Although Chomsky 's description of language in terms of transformational grammar has had a considerable impact in respect of work on language intervention , the influence of his theory of language acquisition has been much more limited . |