Example sentences of "[be] [verb] have had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No patient in this group could be considered to have had a successful and uneventful procedure . |
| 2 | There are reasons , therefore , why Britain might be expected to have had a somewhat higher than average share of its workforce in manufacturing industry . |
| 3 | These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age . |
| 4 | However , of Truman , Eisenhower , Kennedy , Nixon , Ford and Carter , none could be said to have had a decisive impact on the direction of domestic policy . |
| 5 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 6 | His parents published a collection of his letters in 1919 , The Letters of Charles Sorley , which the Manchester Guardian thought ‘ contained the first mature impressions of a nature which was all vigour and radiance , a boy who may be said to have had a genius for truth ’ . |
| 7 | Other economic unions , some short-lived and some longer-lived , in Africa , Asia and the Americas , have had a modicum of influence locally , but none can be said to have had a major influence in global terms . |
| 8 | Senescent Eskimos , for example , might be thought to have had a raw deal if the stories of the banishment from the familial hearth of those unfit to hunt and fish are to be believed . |
| 9 | Virtually any Arts and Crafts or Art Nouveau building can be assumed to have had a highly elaborate shopfront beneath . |