Example sentences of "have have the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The college has had the heart-rending task of choosing between applications from equally deserving cases . |
| 2 | Taft and Ross ( 1969:221 ) point out that ‘ The United States has had the bloodiest and most violent labor history of any industrial nation in the world . ’ |
| 3 | This chapter explores why external change in the international political economy has had the uneven impact on industries we showed in the previous chapter . |
| 4 | There 's been a lot of doom and gloom spoken about ‘ the depressed market ’ , and certainly the fiscal policy of high interest rates has had the short-term effect that was intended . |
| 5 | The exhibition has had the ultimate official accolade of a visit by the Queen on 10 June in the context of her State visit to France . |
| 6 | Colour matching is not a real problem , heraldry has distinct tinctures laid down and these are adhered to , although Mary has had the occasional viewer saying that the badge was never that colour ! |
| 7 | Certainly we must hope that the government in its final response will take the arguments put forward by Alvey somewhat further ; after all it has had the best part of six months to consider them . |
| 8 | CANCER drug campaigner Janet Murray has had the first tablets which may give her a chance of a normal life . |
| 9 | ‘ If the host has had the normal course of immunisation , then yes , it should follow near enough the same evolutionary pattern . |
| 10 | IT WAS not just the Stewart's/Melville players who celebrated their promotion-winning victory , but also the club treasurer who has had the impossible task of balancing the books this season . |
| 11 | Annabelle , you may not realize it , but you are gaining the advantage of marrying a man who has had the sharp corners rubbed off him . |
| 12 | Sandblasting of the Great Slab area at Stanage to remove graffiti painted on over the August bank holiday has had the beneficial side effect of totally cleaning the afflicted area of chalk and rubber marks , and has also increased the friction . |
| 13 | The south east has had the sharpest rise in failures — up 54.7 per cent . |
| 14 | He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago . |
| 15 | In the Neolithic period , totalitarian states emerged as a result of the reappearance of profound inequalities made possible by the acquisition of agricultural surpluses , whereas in the modern epoch most of the comparable states emerged out of periods of revolution and upheaval constituted mainly by a struggle for equality — a fact that has had the odd consequence of leaving all modern police states with official ideologies strongly committed to a non-existent freedom and egalitarianism for their citizens . |
| 16 | At last that shy retiring dragon , Little Puff ( remember his first game ? ) has had the good sense to change his name . |
| 17 | This means that claims by UK citizens under the Convention must always be pursued to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to obtain judgment , with the result that the UK has had the highest number of judgments made against it by the European Court of Human Rights for one or more violations of the Convention 's terms . |
| 18 | During the past twenty five years Italy has had the highest strike rate in Europe . |
| 19 | A company called Popperfoto , which owns one of the world 's largest photographic libraries , now has its headquarters in the region , and Central South has had the rare privilege of being allowed free access to its contents . |
| 20 | The Government 's accumulated fiscal surpluses will then be available both to revive an economy which has had the excess heat taken out of it during 1989/90 and to restore its electoral fortunes . |
| 21 | Cincinnati Bell Inc has had the all clear from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which affirmed Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co 's double-A-minus senior debt rating on its $285m or so of debt following the company 's announcement that it would file for a 9% increase in local services and a three-year alternative regulation plan beginning January 1 1994 . |
| 22 | It has had the natural result of generally tending to increase the harshness of punishment — and consequently the size of the prison population and the scale of the penal crisis . |
| 23 | ) Excluding Gibson and Fender , which guitar company do you feel has had the most impact on the guitar industry in the last decade , and why ? |
| 24 | President Havel has had the dreary uniforms of the Communist state redesigned by Theodore Pištěk , the costume designer for the film Amadeus , much of which was shot in Prague . |
| 25 | Could it be that Octel 's handsomely presented claim that without lead alkyls the roads of ‘ most of the world would be very empty ’ has had the intended effect on one of our more propaganda resistant MPs ? |
| 26 | Back at the corner plot , the imaginary Seniors are delighted that Carole has had the gigantic poplar at the back removed . |
| 27 | It obviously has had the opposite effect … |
| 28 | Compliance with the EEC Directive , following pressure from the United States , has had the opposite effect to that intended ; it has significantly reduced protection in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | Will he assure the House that he has had the unreserved support of the Opposition during the passage of that Bill ? |
| 30 | As calculations go , this one turns out to be surprisingly simple , once somebody has had the original idea . |