Example sentences of "have had a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donated organs such as kidneys , and semen or ova for insemination , are suitable if the donor has had a recent negative HIV antibody test . |
| 2 | Benidorm has had a thorough spring-clean , unsightly hoardings have been taken down and 1,000 palm trees planted . |
| 3 | This has had a devastating economic effect — but has failed to change most Serbs ' minds . |
| 4 | The Portuguese coach has had a trouble-strewn qualifying section so far . |
| 5 | ‘ It is no easy thing for a person like Wilson , whose family has had a complex religious history — his father , for example , was a … er … |
| 6 | How would what test would you use to determine whether or not John Major has had a good first one hundred days ? |
| 7 | In the UK , preferential tax treatment for imported wine has had a serious adverse effect on our domestic spirits industry . |
| 8 | Intel 's difficulties getting yields on 66MHz Pentiums leave Unisys , who has had a close collaborative alliance on chip design with Intel for the past two years , unable to say exactly when it go to the 66MHz parts . |
| 9 | Intel 's difficulties getting yields on 66MHz Pentiums leave Unisys , who has had a close collaborative alliance on chip design with Intel for the past two years , unable to say exactly when it go to the 66MHz parts . |
| 10 | Rural population growth has had a distinctive regional pattern , which is , of course , the inverse of that observed for rural depopulation . |
| 11 | The exiled Tibetan leader , the Dalai Lama has had a high international profile since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year ; resenting this , the Chinese authorities may be looking for propaganda points of their own for lifting marshal law . |
| 12 | Since the last time the survey was done ( 1976 ) , the south East of England has had a dreadful 82 per cent increase in the number of unfit houses . |
| 13 | The usual test that is given for this is the Snellen chart for visual acuity , which is well known to anyone who has had a routine medical examination . |
| 14 | Already , the development activity has had a massive physical and economic impact , especially in the western part of Docklands and on the Isle of Dogs in particular , with spillovers into surrounding areas such as Greenwich and North Southwark ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 15 | Because the person being regressed may have to face something which was either traumatic at the time or which seemed trivial but has had a long-lasting subconscious effect , the whole subject needs careful and skilful handling . |
| 16 | In the case study , the movement to a formula-based capitation system has had a profound managerial effect . |
| 17 | Finally , Hobson Moor Quarry has had a few more of its gaps filled . |
| 18 | Over the years of flying at almost every conceivable airshow location in the UK , Lindsey has had a few unusual requests along the way : ‘ I can remember a certain airshow organiser , who was very active on the airshow scene then , but not now , coming up to me and saying ‘ Lindsey , how much do you want to bail out at the end of one of these dogfight routines that you do ? ’ , |
| 19 | I can always remember that yeah , I won a book called And then er when we came out pictures on Saturday afternoon , there always used to be a gentleman there and he 'd had a great big basket and he 'd like he 'd have a bag of sweets and oranges in these er basket and they used to give the children a bag of sweet and orange and they came out and see pictures for a penny . |
| 20 | If you 'd had a big fat bottom I might have guessed . |
| 21 | He 'd had a sudden sick recollection of the headline in the Illustrated Police News , dated 1870 , which he had found in the library archives . |
| 22 | We could 've had a two forty video tape , it said , two forty on it and when we put it in were n't it ? . |
| 23 | They had had had a tremendous send-off on the Sunday from the Esplanade at Edinburgh Castle , including 40 cars from the MG club . |
| 24 | Having had a gruesome storm-tossed journey , his first act on landing was to fulfil his vow to travel barefoot to the nearest shrine in thanksgiving for his delivery ; the rheumatism which resulted was with him for the rest of his life — as was the sourness with which he regarded Scotland . |
| 25 | Having had a jinxed left back position it looks like we now have a jinxed central defender position ! |
| 26 | In other words , having had a previous similar sensation is a logically necessary condition of my apprehending a sensation of white as such , on Mill 's version of the resemblance doctrine . |
| 27 | ‘ Richard Cawston 's film could not have had a better critical reception if it had been the combined work of Eisenstein , Hitchcock and Fellini , ’ wrote the critic in the Evening Standard . |
| 28 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 29 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 30 | football may have had a rough old week … but we 've got some celebrating to do now … |