Example sentences of "had a [adj] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samson has had a wide experience in the electronics industry , working with Plessey Co Plc , Standard Telephones and Cables Plc and GEC Plc , where he was managing director of GEC Consumer Products Group until 1989 . |
| 2 | Many advice workers are unaware that they have had a democratic part in the policy decisions that have adopted these training requirements and some even see these demands on them as a personal affront . |
| 3 | As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament . |
| 4 | De La Rue have had a major commitment in the North East but the company is not in any traditional sense local and Formica was sold to American Cynamid in 1977 . |
| 5 | Initial results from the first phase of the research ( summer 1986 ) show that the police are sticking very closely to the new rules and that this has had a major impact in the way CID officers conduct investigations . |
| 6 | I heard this morning on Sky that DOL had had a successful comeback in the reserves . |
| 7 | Hitherto , the coalition had only had a one-seat majority in the Parliament as a whole and was actually in a minority in the lower house . |
| 8 | ‘ Folk ’ tunes , especially of Scottish origin , had long had a strong presence in the North-East regional culture ; and , as in other areas of the country , they had also been taken up by middle-class circles . |
| 9 | Deaf schools in Britain have traditionally had a long involvement in the Scout and Girl Guide movement , but Scouting has not been confined simply to schoolboys and schoolgirls . |
| 10 | The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades . |
| 11 | The robber , aged about 20 and wearing a green hat , escaped in a G-registered burgundy-coloured Vauxhall Cavalier and is believed to have had a trilby-hatted accomplice in the car . |
| 12 | ‘ Brian particularly has had a good run in the reserves , but I 'm sure they 'll both do well . ’ |
| 13 | The House has not had a good record in the past years . |
| 14 | The ergonomics of form design and use have had a pivotal role in the provision of accurate , presentable and punctual information to all users . |
| 15 | But first they had had a late tea in the smaller of the drawing-rooms . |
| 16 | Mr Morton has always had a powerful ally in the shape of the Bank of England . |
| 17 | that we 've had a slight increase in the percentage of our employees , albeit that 's got to be seen against erm , er er a lower total of employees altogether . |
| 18 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 19 | Waiting in the third round could be fourth seed Boris Becker , who has had a torrid time in the build-up to the French Championships but who has a good chance to find his feet with a first round match against 579th-ranked French wild card Nicolas Escude . |
| 20 | And although many architects still find it hard to say Charles 's name without curling their lips , most of them do admit that by bringing the whole subject into the public domain , architecture has had a much-needed shot in the arm . |
| 21 | Basham has had a varied career in the field of ‘ public relations ’ . |
| 22 | The fortunes of manned space travel have had a rough ride in the past few years , with the United States finally joining Europe in questioning the costs of such programmes in times of recession . |
| 23 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 24 | The similarities and differences between grief and depression have had a central role in the development of psychoanalytic theory . |
| 25 | He had had a personal hand in the arrest of Ned Turner . |
| 26 | He had not even had a full season in the First Division . |
| 27 | C & p has had a direct hand in the development of the European Quality Award . |
| 28 | Ever since Queen Victoria bought the estate in 1848 it has had a special place in the affections of the royal family . |
| 29 | ‘ But the horse has certainly had a few adventures in the meantime . |
| 30 | And I er was talking to her down the lane when Mrs Monday and I asked her how she was and she said oh I 've had a few falls in the house and all . |