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

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1 Moreover , we regard such fees as undesirable because we are keen that there should be no avoidable barriers to access on the part of people who have not traditionally had the opportunity to go into higher education .
2 The nature of my duties both in the Province and in this House means that I have not yet had the pleasure and privilege of reading Dr. FitzGerald 's book , but I shall take on hearsay what the hon. Gentleman says about this entry .
3 Certain forms of writing , such as academic articles , extend this even further and writers are required to develop skills in explicitness , and in being aware of hidden assumptions , so that readers who have not directly had the writer 's experience may understand it .
4 What we should remember , however , is that workers have not always had the same kinds of experiences I have just described and have , consequently , been able to hold on to a sense of political relatedness between themselves as individuals and groups vis-à-vis society and the industrial enterprises within it .
5 Primatologist Hans Kummer , professor at the University of Zurich , confesses that , while anyone who knows monkeys is aware that ‘ a single social act such as a scream may serve widely different goals … we have not usually had the courage to face the task of differentiating , but dutifully entered the act into our record sheet as what it clearly was : a carefully defined and carefully counted scream .
6 However , as I have n't yet had the opportunity to study the large scale maps of the area , there may be hidden markers which may firm up the circles and so narrow the discrepancy .
7 I did n't see this as being primarily er a , a reflection on the day as such , although they have n't actually had the opportunity to sort of mull it over .
8 It can be I know , but I mean erm , I 'm thinking of some of my electorate , and I have n't actually had the opportunity to ask them .
9 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 .
10 " We have never before had the honour to carry such an important representative of the United States of America to Saigon . "
11 I have never before had the privilege to work for such an environmentally-conscious , safe , dynamic and forward-thinking company .
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