Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must go and enquire if the artists have had a successful afternoon . ’ |
| 2 | Most of those leaving the cities have had to buy their way out if they wanted to live in environmentally more-attractive areas that , particularly in the south of England and — to some extent — increasingly elsewhere , were proving to be the most economically active . |
| 3 | Increasing unemployment in the cities has had all kinds of unfortunate consequences : it reduces demand for such services as retailing , while at the same time increasing pressures on public-sector provision ; and social services , housing training and education encounter increased demands for certain activities . |
| 4 | Most of the workers concerned had or would have been deemed by the courts to have had contracts of employment . |
| 5 | However , no occasion has yet arisen on which the courts have had an opportunity to demonstrate the Convention as having practical effect in this aspect . |
| 6 | Hence the courts have had to evolve various canons of construction which , even more unfortunately , have fluctuated from time to time , thus over-ruling earlier decisions and defeating the legitimate expectations of investors who purchased preference shares in reliance on the construction adopted earlier . |
| 7 | Apart from adding a gloss to the section , the courts have had to interpret the actual wording . |
| 8 | The courts have had powers over the years to deal with those offences . |
| 9 | In others , where the courts have been unable to find any contract between the parties , the courts have had to rely on an equitable doctrine of confidence . |
| 10 | When the long-awaited Invasion finally started , we were sure that the lives which had been lost were now going to be partly justified , because the boot was definitely on the other foot and the Germans had had it . |
| 11 | The Germans have had to accept some unpleasant facts such as French posession of nuclear weapons that are stationed on German frontiers as if their main purpose was to prevent a repeat of 1870 , 1914 , and 1940 . |
| 12 | The Germans have had a different structure of labour laws for many years . |
| 13 | Having won the Norfolk and Suffolk League , as well as the Suffolk Championship and the Today 's Runner League , the Pacers have had their best season . |
| 14 | Hardly a fish has been caught here for three weeks but the birds had had roach and dace up to 8 oz . |
| 15 | Erm we 've had a , a major accident in nineteen fifty er ninety fifty seven , one of the Winscale small reactors at Winscale caught fire er the Americans had an accident at Three Mile Island which erm w was catastrophic as far as the reactor was concerned , but the safety devices prevented any radioactivity escaping the Russians have had their Three Mile I er their erm Chernobyl accident which was catastrophic . |
| 16 | This is the more remarkable in view of the lukewarm support some of the policies have had in the Cabinet and party . |
| 17 | The researchers have had some interesting experiences when they 've been out and about — it 's not all work and no play — just mostly . |
| 18 | The Hammers have had five players sent off this season already — Dicks and Allen have both served suspensions — but manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ I 'm trying hard to improve discipline here . |
| 19 | This description , at the very start of our literature , sets the tone for accounts of wetlands , which through the ages have had a consistently bad press . |
| 20 | If the authorities had had any sense , they would have closed the cafes . ’ |
| 21 | There is also suspicion about the effects of the VDUs , although the screens are well positioned and the operators have had eye tests . |
| 22 | The H2-antagonists have had their own complications . |
| 23 | If it is too strong , the soil will be dry before the animals have had a chance to move out of it and they will die in the soil . |
| 24 | I expect because they trust a fellow countryman — the Iranians have had bad experiences with supplies from abroad . |
| 25 | But to be fair , none of the drivers had had that Mr Major or Mr Kinnock or Mr Ashdown in the back of the cab . |
| 26 | As a result , the polytechnics have had to turn to their authorities for additional financial help which , in many cases , has strengthened the latter 's hand in demanding more stringent control over the polytechnic 's expenditure . |
| 27 | He says … he says one of the cars has had an accident in the rain . |
| 28 | In this time it seems that all other areas of the Lakes have had a new guide , and some of them two . |
| 29 | ‘ Jesus Christ , Piper , the mauses have had a bloody good go at you last night . |
| 30 | Plateless bolt-on necks are the order of the day , and the Koreans have had to work out a strange method of extending the neck an extra step past the end of the fingerboard to try to keep the Rickenbacker look ( you might be able to spot this feature on the black one , between the neck and middle pickups ) . |