Example sentences of "have have an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional standards have had an increasing influence on the National Health Service . |
| 2 | The success of Gemini is encouraging … we have had an increasing number of arrests and a large amount of property recovered . |
| 3 | Ceauşescu admitted at the beginning of the 1980s that it was easier to change the economy and society than people themselves : ‘ As you can see , we have had an easy time constructing factories . |
| 4 | Both feminists and contemporary philosophers in England and America have had an uneasy relationship with psychoanalytic theory . |
| 5 | With Pluto in Scorpio you have had an uneasy feeling that someone was plotting against you . |
| 6 | All of the problems considered in this section have had an optimal solution at θ = 0 . |
| 7 | Too often the leadership 's victories over the left have had an unsavoury , pyrrhic quality . |
| 8 | I have had an indifferent season but I always give 100 per cent effort and so do the other players . ’ |
| 9 | Accountability — many of the changes in the NHS over recent years have had an implicit , if not explicit , goal of strengthening the notion of line management . |
| 10 | ‘ You go to a dinner party and find that three of the guests have had an elderly parent murdered . ’ |
| 11 | They 're people who are pathetic , who are sad , who have had an awful lot of knocks in life and I often think that one of the things that everybody in society could do is actually talk to them a bit more . |
| 12 | Look , the unions have had an Equal Pay for women thing down on the TUC statute books since 1889 , and they 've done nothing . |
| 13 | Clearly the improvement of the unemployment situation in Scotland during the 1970s owes a great deal to the new employment opportunities created by the discovery of North Sea oil , whereas the political troubles in Ireland have had an adverse effect on the local employment situation there . |
| 14 | LASMO has had to pursue its business objectives , including the asset management programme , against a background of world recession and low oil prices — factors which have had an adverse impact on the company 's short term position . |
| 15 | On the contrary , the economic crisis in the rich countries has led , not surprisingly , to a still greater preoccupation with national economic issues and national development , one aspect of this situation being that aid to the developing countries by the Western nations who are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) has declined as a percentage of their gross national product , while the various protectionist measures which they have taken in recent years have had an adverse effect upon the trade of the developing countries . |
| 16 | And services dedicated to high quality performance have had an honourable place in our history . |
| 17 | The crinoids have had an eventful geological history . |
| 18 | In the middle of the worst recession since the war we now have a new crop of party political broadcasts , and a fresh set of posters , both crafted with skill by the advertising industry 's finest , which have had an immediate effect . |
| 19 | It is clearly one area where government housing policies have had an equalising effect . |
| 20 | Over the years , although never establishing a close friendship with the Profumos , I have had an admiring acquaintance with both of them and am happy to see that their marriage was not ruined by this solitary episode and distressed indeed by its revival from time to time by creatures animated solely by greed . |
| 21 | Security over personal property is another area where law and lawyers have had an important facilitative role . |
| 22 | Labour migrations , for instance , have had an important impact on patterns of courtship and on illegitimacy rates . |
| 23 | Recent developments in game theory have had an important impact on the way we interpret these models . |
| 24 | But although socialist or liberal-reformist doctrines have had an important influence in some cases — in the Cuban Revolution , in the Popular Unity Government in Chile , and in the Peronist movement in Argentina — it is a conservative nationalism , expressed through military regimes , which has largely prevailed . |
| 25 | The ready availability of good-quality building stone in most parts of Scotland , the lack of timber in many northern areas , and the need to protect against strong winds and abundant rain , are a few of the many practical considerations which have had an important effect on the nature of Scottish buildings . |
| 26 | Britain 's pursuit of regional economic policies since the war , which by ‘ stick and carrot ’ incentives have steered or , more likely , encouraged forms of economic development to the disadvantaged regions , have had an indirect effect of the physical environment of many towns and cities . |
| 27 | That Shelford has a few doubters to disprove is cold comfort to Cardiff , who have had an unconvincing start to the season and whose main hope is to catch the tourists either cold or rusty after a lay-off which for most has lasted all of a fortnight . |
| 28 | We have had an exceptional level erm , probably the reasons such as stand-by and maternity absences and a variety of others which essentially are above the level that we normally budget for . |
| 29 | Derby have had an ambitious bid turned down for Bryan Robson , Manchester United 's former England skipper . |
| 30 | Both have had an enormous impact on me as a teacher . |