Example sentences of "have had in [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There is likely , for example , to be a progression away from blue-collar jobs to white-collar or service occupations , but these could well take on more of the character which factory work has had in the past , if the tendency is not resisted .
2 Locke 's enthusiasm is alive and well in the modern day too , despite the buffeting religious belief has had in the West over the last two hundred years .
3 Taylor is very representative of his members , who regard him as one of the best qualified chairman the federation has had in the North-East .
4 Alan and I served er , together as er , deputy Chairs , or vice-Chairs or whatever the appropriate words are for several years er , and I erm , well I think I would adopt the words that he used about the experience that he has had in the Chair , to whit , that his companionship and his contribution to our affairs has been stimulating , enlightening and particularly enjoyable .
5 Mrs Lennox placed some sliced corned beef on the table along with some griddle scones she 'd had in the larder wrapped in a cloth .
6 And erm we spoke to the Chairman during the afternoon in his house and was talking to him and spoke to him about erm an accident he 'd had in the quarry .
7 You used to have a little book and er the grocer would write it down what you 'd had in the book you see and then you had to pay for it on th at the weekend .
8 HOLLOWAY women 's prison now has a nickname that is more telling than any it may have had in the past the Hilton .
9 He was the best man we could possibly have had in the circumstances . ’
10 In return , Sequoia has given up any ambitions it may have had in the telecommunications marketplace , but will sell the thing in competition with HP elsewhere .
11 To do so requires a comparison of the market-makers actual portfolio of investments at the time of the disclosure of the inside information , with the portfolio he could have had in the absence of the inside trade .
12 The advantages of the private law model are as follows : ( 1 ) It assumes that the rights investors would have had in the absence of statutory intervention should be preserved unless clearly taken away .
13 For example , someone who has just completed a questionnaire ( at T 1 ) on nutrition may have a response to a film on food additives different from that which they would have had in the absence of the questionnaire .
14 Oh aye , we 'd have had in the process mind .
15 His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months .
16 She remembered with sadness all the neighbourly contacts they had had in the past — Lowell 's anxiety when Edward had gone missing on his new bike during a November fog and his tireless search until he was found — his ham-fisted efforts to assist her in Ben 's absence when the washing-machine had flooded the kitchen — his quiet piano-playing , when his hands were still capable , at the end of a noisy party when all the guests had gone home .
17 It reminded her of the feeling she had had in the room below this one , stood there amongst the shrouded furniture ; that the house was not abandoned , merely boarded up temporarily , awaiting its occupant 's return .
18 The word favoured by headline-writers was ‘ tarnished ’ , although any lustre North had had in the media was not much more than the borrowed glow of stars whom he superficially resembled .
19 Er would you , would you tell the Your Worships what experience you 've had in the licence trade ?
20 I mean any visit to a gesopholar laboratory will persuade you some very , very striking differences , you know , like having four wings instead of two , or even four legs instead of six I 've had in the lab — you know , really quite striking differences can be due to a single Mendelising gene , no problem about that .
21 Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared .
22 Erm I most of the tapes that I 've had in the past have been recorded mono , erm and I 've needed a little doohickey to turn the erm output into mono as well cos it 's awfully off-putting spending seven and a half hours with the stuff coming in through one ear only .
23 w better equipped to get out onto B R's mainframe computer systems , a and the problems that we 've had in the past with regards to Micromail ha should disappear .
24 We have n't opened the toilet block as yet , because if you remember that the Recreation Ground Committee , we 're opening it in the er after the school has started and shutting it before the school ends , so that we do n't have the problems of vandalism which we 've had in the past , hopefully .
25 ‘ I ca n't imagine you being even remotely interested in any daydreams I 've had in the past , ’ he said with a slight twist to his mouth .
26 Chairman , this is not what we , er , agreed before , and it seems to me that there 's been some re-thinking on this , and I hesitate to say that once again , er , members are trying to face all ways because they do n't want to upset somebody , but the policy that we 've had in the past , had total support at property , and it is , it is a policy that has worked .
27 ‘ Whatever problems you 've had in the past , remember that he loved you , and you loved him .
28 Whether this means high unemployment depends partly on how this work is distributed ; whether we keep the same working hours that we 've had in the past , for example , whether we work for as many years .
29 Ca n't you send them a bill for all the ones they 've had in the past ?
30 ‘ It was the most frightening experience I 've had in the series . ’
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