Example sentences of "to have have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Behind the desk , the receptionist appears to have had a late night .
2 There 's one teacher , he seems to have had a personal interest in each one of us for five years .
3 Pavel Mukhortov , the Russian reporter who claims to have had a close encounter with extra-terrestrials He ( Nelson Mandela ) was trying to explain to us how he feels about negotiations , how it was his feeling that in any country , even if there is war , there is time for negotiations .
4 Though we can not imagine that Innocent wrote all these , he appears to have had a close relationship with his chancery .
5 James saw G P when he was up in Glasgow last week — he seems to have had a brilliant trip , and spent most of his time in Chile .
6 Sixteenth-century towns do not appear to have had a solid group of stable families in the same way as so many contemporary rural parishes .
7 I had known this lady for many years and could claim to have had a friendly relationship with her .
8 John also described an incident when he was about ten or eleven which seems to have had a traumatic effect on him , the horror of which , bottled up for many years , can be felt in ballets which he made long afterwards .
9 Other economic unions , some short-lived and some longer-lived , in Africa , Asia and the Americas , have had a modicum of influence locally , but none can be said to have had a major influence in global terms .
10 The continuation of high risk behaviour in this group , who would have been counselled about safe sex when tested for HIV-1 infection , is of particular concern , as are seroconversions in those known to have had a negative test result .
11 The engraving on the outer face of the Mezine example , while decorative , is also likely to have had a symbolic meaning .
12 Overall , the liberalisation which has taken place in the architectural profession since the early 1980s does not seem to have had a revolutionary effect .
13 Just as the barbarians themselves seem to have changed their policies about settlement , so too the Romans are unlikely to have had a monolithic system for settling the barbarians within the Roman Empire .
14 In a recent essay she claims to have had a strong sense of déjá-vu upon first reading theories of post-structuralism and postmodernism , for though she had never been able to articulate them clearly in conceptual form , she had discovered many of the concepts these theories present through writing fiction ( 1991a:165 ) .
15 Although there are some irregularities , Smart seems to have had a fixed task allocated for each day and to have kept to it .
16 The Rhineland potters who now supplied Britain with samian , but on a much reduced scale , appear to have had a limited figure repertoire .
17 Possibly the fact that the Robin Hood ballads , which probably took their early form in this period , seem to have had a southern origin but set their events in the North ( particularly in Barnsdale , north of Doncaster , rather than in Sherwood ) , reflects the beliefs of southerners that the North was a strange and wild world .
18 The Bishop seems to have had a wide discretion , which was not always well exercised .
19 No patient in this group could be considered to have had a successful and uneventful procedure .
20 In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question .
21 Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc .
22 In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more .
23 ‘ You two appear to have had a good time , ’ Maggie said with a smile .
24 He seems to have had a good acquaintance with the theory and practice of shoeing , though we can not admit his claim to originality .
25 ‘ You seem to have had a good view , ’ commented Dexter .
26 Magnus is said to have led a blameless childhood and in the Longer Magnúss Saga he is said to have had a good schooling which enabled him to learn ‘ holy writings ’ .
27 I would like to have had a good first round match first .
28 Newspapers in North America suffered in the recession , but paid-for regional papers in the UK are said to have had a good year .
29 You seem to have had a nasty shock . ’
30 However , of Truman , Eisenhower , Kennedy , Nixon , Ford and Carter , none could be said to have had a decisive impact on the direction of domestic policy .
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