Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] had " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The people who ought to study and argue such questions , the philosophers , have mostly not had enough mathematical background to keep up with modern developments in theoretical physics .
2 Ranged against the far more powerful pro-Israel lobby , the groups have so far had little impact on policy .
3 We have so far had infinite metal plates and infinite dielectrics .
4 I have so far had 4 people interested in travelling from the UK , and another 3 who would like to join us for part of the time in NZ .
5 Despite a relatively shortterm median follow up ( 5.7 years ) only three of 10 patients ( 30% ) with definite Crohn 's colitis have so far had their pouch excised , admittedly all were for fistulas , while the remaining seven have satisfactory function despite episodes of recurrent pouchitis in three .
6 As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so .
7 But erm I think really at the end of the day staff have only really had just that one day workshop ,
8 I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ .
9 ( Two of us ) have just simply had to find time to do it in our own time .
10 We have just not had the luck . ’
11 They have simply not had the chance at school to demonstrate whether or not they are actually able to go on with mathematics .
12 Tim Hayward , head of corporate recovery at KPMG , said : ‘ Liquidation is the form of insolvency particularly common to smaller companies and many have simply not had the cash reserves to enable them to survive difficult trading conditions .
13 I do n't know about you though , it 's a text that I have quite often had difficulty with and it 's And again I say rejoice , rejoice rejoice and again I say rejoice .
14 But the celebrations in the Diaspora and in the Yishuv have very often had a different spirit behind them .
15 Secondly , we have ‘ unnatural ’ recordings , in which original sounds ( or in some cases electrical waveforms which have never even had a separate acoustic existence ) are subject to processes which make them into something new .
16 I would hasten to say that I have never yet had the misfortune to operate anywhere which possessed all these undesirable features , but every one of us has seen some of them , or combinations of them in different circumstances , and everyone knows , from their own personal experience , how demotivating these characteristics are .
17 We want ten and fifteen people stood there in the street , you want their T-shirts on because I have never yet had one person say to me , I wo n't sign it because I think they should shut .
18 Finally , there have been some striking public successes , notably in the highly effective campaigns to defend the political levy , which have even produced ballot results in favour of political funds in unions like the Hosiery and Knitwear Workers or the Inland Revenue Staffs Federation which have never previously had them .
19 " We have never before had the honour to carry such an important representative of the United States of America to Saigon . "
20 I have never before had the privilege to work for such an environmentally-conscious , safe , dynamic and forward-thinking company .
21 I du n no I I mean I have never actually had a written reference from anybody when I 've left
22 And also state that over the years er your father used to run the business done hundreds of jobs for Avon Insurance at , and er also you yourself have done jobs for Avon Insurance before who have never ever had any trouble whatever so ever !
23 We have never really had an Inquisition , never really persecuted people for their beliefs .
  Next page