Example sentences of "have [adv] have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Stuart ran for Britain in the 1988 Olympic Games and in the European Championships in Split two years ago but has since had ankle and Achilles problems , as well as her degree course , hampering her progress .
2 Van Morrison has long had associations with mysticism and his legacy are bands like U2 , The Hothouse Flowers and The Waterboys .
3 Chay Blyth has long had links with British Steel and they have produced a pot of around £1 ½ million to fund the running of the race and cover part of the cost of building the yachts and training the crew .
4 INDIA has long had terrorists who kill and maim to secure secession for various of its 25 states .
5 Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus .
6 Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus .
7 But Mr Gray is adamant that he has not had letters delivered to him since December 1990 .
8 In contrast to the learned shepherd , the flock has not had occasion either to familiarise itself with the evidence in question or to confront the inconsistencies between scriptural accounts and the actual historical backdrop .
9 The reviewer has only been in office for eight months but so far has not had cause to uphold a single application for a review .
10 He certainly engages in speculation as to what might have happened but treats it as such , continually emphasising that multiple interpretations of the data are possible , that there are many important matters to which he has not had access and that only limited and tentative conclusions may be drawn .
11 The fact that Teacher Placement Service has not had supply cover , although causing short term difficulties has improved the long term chances of success , as such additional external government funding would be temporary in nature .
12 Nicol — acknowledging club triumphs at the Midlands contest and at Panmure — has not had Millard 's exposure to quality sevens fields yet , but it 's not in Nicol 's nature to meekly accept that Millard remains front-runner for a place in the World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield from 16-18 April .
13 Islamey is a dangerous work with which to start a concert , the agitato semi-quavers of the opening bars requiring considerable precision from an orchestra which has not had time to warm up .
14 However , this almost certainly indicates that each species has arisen in the relatively recent past ( usually by hybridization between existing sexual species ) , and has not had time to evolve any substantial variability .
15 Just on admission , a patient has not had time to make any necessary spatial adjustments .
16 The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ?
17 Launching into the logical approach when someone has not had time or does not have the information to assess your credibility is unwise .
18 Mark Flannagan , formerly Director of ASH Workplace Services , has been promoted to this post and has not had time to snatch a wink of sleep since .
19 ‘ The change in joint laxity during pregnancy is analogous to that in someone who has just had surgery on the joints and ligaments : you would n't start that person lifting heavy weights ; you would start with low intensity rehabilitative exercise ’ .
20 Rushing Wild , successful in six out of eight points , has already had experience of Cheltenham , having sauntered away with the Foxhunters Chase last March by 25 lengths .
21 Mr Rutskoi has already had responsibility for agriculture taken away , along with his official Mercedes and doctor .
22 The TDC confirmed last night its chief executive Duncan Hall has already had talks with Stockton Borough Council leader Bob Gibson , paving the way for an ‘ imminent ’ announcement .
23 Susan Nichols , Director of SOS ! for the NIC , told The Art Newspaper she has already had inquiries from abroad regarding the establishment of parallel inventories .
24 Schofield has already had cause to caution Montgomerie — in 1991 — and yesterday he said : ‘ He is a fine golfer and is clearly going to be a major figure in the game for as long as he remains active in it , but he has to be able to take it on the chin .
25 ‘ No pop song has ever had lyrics like these , ’ the Sunday Mirror raged sanctimoniously , helpfully reproducing them in full on its front page : ‘ God save the Queen/A fascist regime/Made you a moron/ A potential H-bomb/God save the Queen/She ai n't no human being/There ai n't no future in/England 's dream . ’
26 St James 's Park has always had Blaydon Races as its anthem but in the Sixties and Seventies there were many others .
27 Kim , who is continuing on the diet as she wants to shed another couple of stone , has always had loads of personality but , as her weight has reduced , an even more bubbly girl has emerged .
28 John Thrupp has always had problems getting shoes to fit , so he had a pair of size twenty-ones specially made by a master craftsman .
29 He insists that she has always had plenty .
30 As the PM says , no one has ever done anything big and good if he has always had success and has n't had some thumping clouts on the head on the way .
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