Example sentences of "have have the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Certainly the scousers have had the better results , Saturdays was no big deal … 2–0 at home to 10 men Sheff Wed who were totally impotent up front .
2 After finishing cocktails and going into that gorgeous , lofty , airy dining-room , and especially getting a window table as we were lucky enough to , you have had the best of what they have to offer at the Ritz , considerable as this is .
3 The Carpathian mountains receive powdery Russian snow from the north and have had the best European snow record for the past three years .
4 The only journalism which I have done regularly is with the NI which is the group with which I have had the best understanding during my stay in Europe .
5 I have had the former fitted up with Drawers for birds and books in hope to work going along and taking a quantity of birds with me as well as left over plates to cut up for box books etc .
6 In Western Australia we have had the corporatist experiment .
7 The first card you turn over is the matching ace , so it seems that you have had the first strike of luck for you can clearly get the first pair .
8 In a letter of 17 August 1921 to his wife he writes that ‘ I have had the first estimates for dolls ' house furniture : 13 State frames — £50 , and have sent it to Mrs Marshall Field .
9 The militarists have had the upper hand for some time .
10 I have had the good fortune to be in Bruges when the city has had a festival and in Ghent for the same sort of thing .
11 The present volume , in honour of Margaret Donaldson , has been written by contributors who have had the good fortune to have worked with her and been influenced by her during their academic careers .
12 And still others have had the good fortune to find a role in those sectors of the joint venture free market which are not stuttering as a result of the policy paralysis .
13 The long stake is ridiculed by the theory merchants , and no doubt will be so again , but when they have had the practical experience , as I have , of losing hundreds of trees through their necks breaking under the weight of an Easter snowstorm , they will learn the commonsense of long staking .
14 I have had the great privilege to know some very talented young people whose dreams did come true .
15 Oxfordshire have had the toughest task of all against the championship leaders Glamorgan at swansea … they got some early wickets but then came up against a chap called Richards …
16 He points out that since the Korean War those countries with the highest growth rates — Japan , Sweden , Germany and Austria — have had the lowest levels of military expenditure as a percentage of GDP .
17 I have had the dubious privilege over the years of debating with him on many occasions .
18 But that would not explain why some of the sermons that have had the greatest impact on us have not necessarily been high on the performance scale .
19 Comics have had the greatest punchbags and been the antidote to 12 years of Republican rule .
20 The amalgamation of properties would , perhaps , have had the greatest effect since the main purpose would have been economy of management .
21 Although hardware developments have been significant , it is the development of new software and the associated administration systems which have had the greatest impact on the organisation , particularly so in the case of the Payroll/Personnel System .
22 In connection with these principles Saussure introduced two further oppositions , both of which have had the greatest importance for the development of modern linguistics : the opposition between synchronic and diachronic language study , and that between syntagmatic and associative relationships in the language-system .
23 We have had the smallest number of new home completions in the city since 1982-83 .
24 Although studies of miscarriage from a broadly sociological perspective have been undertaken in Great Britain , none have had the specific focus of this study .
25 Health authorities in general can call on a wide range of hospital and other staff in the course of de-hospitalizing patients , they have enjoyed their own financial resources from which to fund such developments and they have had the lucky coincidence of a rapidly expanding private residential sector funded by the social security system .
26 have had the whole day .
27 More important , it has on several occasions presented to the European Commission solutions to technical problems with the Directives which have had the unanimous support of member associations .
28 By the time some pupils reach secondary school they can be up to a year behind classmates who have had the proper amount of teaching , Government insiders claim .
29 Some hon. Members will welcome the partial movement by the Secretary of State for Scotland in as much as we have had the enormous political death-bed confession that he will look at the Scottish situation .
30 If you wanted to list the five magazines which have had the most impact on popular culture since the war , they would have to be Picture Post , Queen , Nova , the Sunday Times Magazine — and The Face .
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