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

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1 Existing studies have had to use a range of previous estimates based upon differing methodological approaches and data samples , and often more than twenty years old .
2 Everywhere that is coloured white will be transparent in the movie itself , so I have had to use the drawing tools to get rid of the coloured bits of the background .
3 They can examine the reasons why they have had to deny the existence of those feelings .
4 All Blacks hero Grant Fox said : ‘ It 's not often I have been in a situation where I have had to kick a penalty to win the game .
5 Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night .
6 Such testimonies could be repeated over and over again as team members have had to take the lead in new areas they have found quite frightening .
7 The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale .
8 ‘ To gain access to the question of Being-on-drugs we have had to go the way of literature , ’ Avital Ronell proclaims .
9 I am sorry to say I have such a headache at this very moment because the thin winter light has faded outside the window and I have had to light a candle in order to get all this down in good time .
10 The Cockney Rejects , peaceful chaps of the terraces , have had to cancel the rest of their tour due to the threat of violence at the gigs .
11 The Cockney Rejects , peaceful chaps of the terraces , have had to cancel the rest of their tour due to the threat of violence at the gigs .
12 Lewis 's manager , Frank Maloney , admitted : ‘ We have had to cancel the fight for the time being .
13 George , 61 , and wife Betty , 60 , have had to watch the pennies since he took early retirement when his hospital was privatised .
14 And , very hard working people have had to do the fighting for what we have got !
15 Er some wo n't wear it at all erm erm have had to leave the Fire Service because of that .
16 Unfortunately at the moment we have had to move the playgroup into temporary accommodation so we can only offer two hours a day .
17 Lenders in the US have had to disclose an APR ( broadly similar to ours , but calculated in a slightly different way ) since 1969 .
18 The treatment continues when the children spend periodic time in hospital , but at Poppy 's local hospital , the Gloucestershire Royal at Gloucester , parents have had to continue the treatment themselves .
19 Because the schools are up to 65 miles away , we have had to give a lot of thought to the development of distance learning materials .
20 Breast milk , the best milk for such babies or for those who have had to undergo an operation during the first few days or weeks of life , is collected from mothers of healthy babies who have more than enough to satisfy their needs .
21 They have had to face the demands of liturgical change , increasing pressures from tourism , media attention , financial constraints and the expensive upkeep of large and ancient buildings .
22 Electric fish have , at least twice independently , hit upon this ingenious method of navigation , but they have had to pay a price : they have had to give up the normal , highly efficient , fish method of swimming , throwing the whole body into serpentine waves .
23 So confident is Autobacs that since April last year new franchisees have had to pay the firm a commission of 2% of sales .
24 Until now firms have had to pay the tax on all their sales , even when customers have left bills unpaid .
25 Despite the hard work invested in service provision for men , women have had to struggle every bit as hard as gay men a few years earlier , to carve out services for themselves .
26 Those of us who have looked at the development of treatments for decaying stone during the past twenty years have had to learn the lesson that there are no ‘ magic ’ solutions .
27 What might have they have had to measure the time as it passed ?
28 Builders started on the complex three years ago and have had to overcome a number of difficulties .
29 Unfortunately South Africans have had to adopt the shambles of the international line-out .
30 For the Conservative Government to maintain any level of legitimation in ideological or cultural spheres , they have had to construct a definition of common sense which reinforces their definition of the social order .
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