Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gujerati families which live as joint families in Britain and do not have , or have never had , this strict but uneasy hierarchy must be few and far between . |
| 2 | If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward . |
| 3 | And auditors are found guilty in court , censored by regulatory investigators , and have even had their practising licences suspended in certain US states . |
| 4 | They operate under Royal Charters , appoint their own staff , decide on their own admissions policies and have traditionally had academic freedom in their teaching and research , though the last of these has arguably been eroded in recent years by the ‘ earmarking ’ of government funds for specific subjects , and the need to seek sponsors for particular projects . |
| 5 | An especially important result of the establishment of both the HIDB and the WIIC is that at long last there are professional jobs in the Western Isles for at least some of those who have gone to university on the mainland and have previously had to stay there to work . |
| 6 | The People 's Party and the Czechoslovak Socialist Party , which functioned as proper political parties before 1948 and have since had a satellite existence , have begun to flex their muscles . |
| 7 | MANY of us were brought up on stories of great inventors and individualistic engineers , and have since had to reeducate ourselves to understand the development of science and technology as a social process , or even to believe that inventions are ‘ socially constructed ’ . |
| 8 | I did art right up until the end of school and have always had an interest in architecture . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've acted for the club for a long time and have always had a good relationship with them . |
| 10 | In this sense we want to tie the structural changes in political economy that have marked most nations in the last decade and have commonly had their most profound consequences in cities , to attempts to demarcate a space that corresponds to the political , social and academic construction of a traumatised inner city . |
| 11 | I have travelled thousands of miles on and off road and have never had any problem ( other than the occasional nail ) with Michelin tyres on cars or Land/Range Rovers so can recommend them from experience . |
| 12 | I have carried my own personal tapes and cassettes in NO SMOKING carriages for nearly 20 years and have never had a problem . |
| 13 | But perhaps someone from Midland can explain how they hope to attract accounts from youngsters in their first jobs who have not passed their driving test and have never had a passport . |
| 14 | Lizzie says : ‘ I have 20 years ’ experience and have never had a single complaint . ’ |
| 15 | I only did this because I know the outlet where I purchased the fish from has its own excellent quarantine facilities and I have used this shop for over 10 years and have never had any trouble with fish purchased from there . |
| 16 | I have had my glassfish about 18 months , and have never had any trouble in getting them to take dried food as opposed to live . |
| 17 | We are always together , and have never had enough of each other 's company . |
| 18 | Young people three , four years out of college and have never had a job . |
| 19 | Some people have been in hospital for 34 years and have never had their independence . |
| 20 | In recent years US unions have not been inactive in the political sphere and have actually had a large degree of impact on influencing legislation concerned with broader social and economic issues ( Lewin , 1978 ) . |
| 21 | Another helpful procedure would be to let children who are learning to read silently have some experience of reading aloud , to one another , passages of their own choosing , not ‘ from cold ’ , as a test of reading skill , but after they have become familiar with a text in general terms and have perhaps had a chance to look closely at syntax or vocabulary found to be perplexing . |
| 22 | Though this may sound childish — and I was in fact childish in many ways , as young women are who have never had to shift for themselves but have always had someone to stand between them and the world — it did , in fact , help me to behave better to Nonni , who was not stupid at all in matters of feeling , and easy to hurt . |