Example sentences of "have had a [adj] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh also has had a long involvement with the cultivation and development of plants with medicinal properties and we have our own Scottish traditions of herbal cures for a long list of ailments . |
| 2 | Home-grown : Edinburgh 's Royal Botanic Garden also has had a long involvement with the development of plants with medicinal properties |
| 3 | Today 's theme will serve us satisfactorily as a basis for our meditation , because water has had a long association with such images of healing , blessing and anointing . |
| 4 | Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist ! |
| 5 | Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site . |
| 6 | The mink has had a chequered relationship with us , but we must remember that the changes are of our own making . |
| 7 | But there are now clear allegations that Prince Charles has had a loving friendship with Camilla , a married woman , for many years . |
| 8 | AT&T has had a similar experience with its Global Business Communications Systems subsidiary , which sells $1 billion of telecommunications gear annually to corporate customers . |
| 9 | McGee , who began as an apprentice with Middlesbrough but was released after making 30 League appearances , has had a unsuccessful spell with Leicester . |
| 10 | He has had a solid connection with the orchestra and the Scottish music scene ever since , and has been responsible for bringing some unusual works to the concert platform in the past . |
| 11 | In the past this Association has had a good relationship with the DLO in Derry . |
| 12 | The Scottish Churches Christian Aid Committee has been investigating and has had a helpful meeting with a senior representative of the Association of Chief Police Offices ( Scotland ) ( ACPO ) . |
| 13 | Paul Crossley has had a unique association with Tippett 's music , commissioning the Third Sonata and giving the first performances of No. 3 and 4 . |
| 14 | It has had a long-standing application with the American Department of Transportation to fly from New York to Stansted . |
| 15 | Judith is astonished , as she has had a difficult relationship with her mother , whom she feels has little maternal feeling . |
| 16 | ARGOS , the nationwide catalogue-retailing group which has had a volatile relationship with the City in recent months , regained its status as one of the sector stars yesterday with a better-than-expected 1992 performance and a cautiously optimistic view of the future . |
| 17 | Third , an historical analysis also serves to illustrate how a narrow section of the press — the political or quality press — has had a continuing fascination with , and attraction to , the centres of legitimate political power and those who exercise it ; moreover , the relationship between the triumvirate of politicians , proprietors and editors — namely , those who exercise political power and those who seek to bask in the afterglow of the exercise of that power — was never fixed . |
| 18 | ‘ Morrissey has had a lengthy conversation with the mother of Lesley Ann Downey , Mrs West , and she understands that the intentions of the song are completely honourable . |
| 19 | He 'd had a blazing row with a ‘ Foreign Office Johnnie ’ , and was on the point of bursting when a third voice had come onto the line . |
| 20 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 21 | A couple of winters ago , caught out on a patch of ice , she 'd had a mild argument with a lamppost , damaging more or less the same spot that had been damaged again today . |
| 22 | The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone . |
| 23 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
| 24 | The Prince , of course , had to go and say hello , and disappeared once again , emerging ten minutes later having had a long discussion with the chief brass player . |
| 25 | Lord Palmerston was a notorious rake , having had a long-standing affair with Lady Cowper , whom he finally married in the late 1830s . |
| 26 | The ozone pollution problem may have had a long association with southern California but it has now become a very serious problem in the Texas Gulf coast , the north-east corridor , and other heavily populated regions ( figure 8.11 ) . |
| 27 | Jimmy grinned — at any other time Leith might have had a quiet word with him about his cheek . |
| 28 | At the very least , he should have had a local policeman with him . |
| 29 | If it had done that , we might have had a sensible dialogue with British Rail , but it did not . |
| 30 | Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle . |