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

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1 The defence authorities have had difficulties in finding researchers to cooperate with them in some fields .
2 This is particularly so for white Creole speakers who can not , except in very rare and exceptional circumstances , have had exposure to Creole as young children : but it is also true for speakers like Stephen and Joan , whose " Patois " approaches , but only sometimes reaches , the Jamaican Creole target .
3 All carers have had parenting of some sort , leaving a residue of affection , resentment , ambivalence , and other complex emotions in relation to those parental or proxy parental figures .
4 ‘ Although we have had bookings from people all over Britain , strangely no one has expressed any interest from Northern Ireland , ’ she added .
5 Typically the survey asks if respondents have had contact with family/friends/neighbours on a scale ranging from daily to never .
6 ‘ Once you have had contact with Jeopardy , you can never be the same again .
7 Met someone today , the third of a partnership trio in which I have had contact with two over the years for different reasons and he said look in re CV for i/view practice if I want — he was with a local enterprise company helping with startups and job searches and now voluntarily helps with just such a counselling group via one of the big churches in Edinburgh for redundant executives — the figure quoted to me recently re architects in Scotland is that forty per cent are redundant .
8 The courts have had powers over the years to deal with those offences .
9 Local authorities have had powers of this nature for many years ( the origin was the 1932 Planning Act ) , but it was not until the property boom of the early 1970s that they became widely used .
10 People have had problems with being labelled ‘ Hendrix clones ’ , possibly when they do n't want such a tag — the excellent Robin Trower springs to mind .
11 We have had problems with nitrates and so we removed some of the fish ( 36″ in all ) , leaving a total of 131″ of fish still in the tank .
12 IF you have had problems with operations being cancelled or been waiting too long for an operation , please contact the EADT newsdesk on 0473 282387 .
13 After all , some areas include children with special needs and some do not ; in some areas children have English as a second language and in others they do not ; and , as he admits , teachers have had problems with the tests themselves .
14 Some staff have had problems with files on floppy disks becoming corrupted .
15 We in Lothian have had problems with barrier design , and the best solution I know of is the design enclosed .
16 He says we have had problems with forged twenty pound notes being passed at the ground and at garages in the town and at kiosks .
17 Lowland Scots and Ulster Scots dialects , for example , have had backing of [ a ] , and we have to work out from residues that in some ancestral forms of these , there may also have been front-raising ( Lass , 1976 ; J. Milroy , 1981 ; and see chapter 4.6 and 4.7 , above , and section 5.7 , below ) .
18 ‘ Within this country we have had discussion with the leaders of the Church of England and also with other denominations .
19 We have had discussion about the word ’ federal ’ .
20 However , since the Holocaust , the Jews and many other peoples have had difficulty in accepting this belief .
21 We want to hear from science graduates of recent years , especially those who have had difficulty in finding employment .
22 It is worth remarking again on some of the issues with which instrumentalist accounts have had difficulty in coming to terms with before turning our attention , finally , to structuralist accounts .
23 Others have had difficulty in taking their departments with them .
24 If they have had difficulty in school they will worry that their child is having difficulty in school .
25 If they have had difficulty in school they will worry that their child is having difficulty in school .
26 Subsequently , their Lordships have had sight of the approved transcript of the judgment which corresponds in all material respects with the report considered in argument .
27 ‘ I have had sight of the manuscript , ’ Mr Malik was saying .
28 There is one for the work force and something called ’ Green Watch ’ on which I have had correspondence with the county director and which costs about £60,000 a year .
29 We have had debates on the entrenchment of rights ; on federalism or regional devolution as against the unitary state ; on the case for consensus rather than majority as a basis for government , on the relative weight of national versus local mandates and the independence of local government , on the duty of civil servants ; on electoral reform with all its implications for the operations of government ; on who should define the national interest ; on open government and official secrecy ; on complementing representative democracy by referenda and other forms of participation — and much else .
30 — And — we also have had players under the influence — Peter Lorimer ( now dry mee thinks ) to name one — i do n't know how many testimonials Peter have had ; when i was at his pub ‘ The Commercial ’ in Leeds some of the other guys spoke of three …
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