Example sentences of "have had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tavernier , who is a native Lyon , Birmingham 's twin town , has had a life long love affair with cinema . |
| 2 | Monica has had a very hard year . |
| 3 | A pattern can be almost any material , even plaster which has had a layer of sealer on it . |
| 4 | Although he has had a good response from his three other beers , production is still only two barrels a week . |
| 5 | But if the gate voltage is clocked very quickly ( at tens of megahertz ) , the negative-going edges of the clock pulse produce depletion , and the positive-going edges ( which restore the previous status quo ) arrive before the surface charge has had a chance to confuse matters . |
| 6 | WW has had a difficult time , suffering heavy losses on its glass side , but profits could be achieved this year . |
| 7 | AMP has had a business in the UK since 1908 . |
| 8 | I am sure that Arcic has had a new encouragement to continue . ’ |
| 9 | Caps are to be awarded but after two Test defeats in New Zealand Fouroux has had a clearout which brings in four newcomers and creates a largely unfamiliar pack designed to take on Australia next month . |
| 10 | At one point , Walter tries to convince his wife that he has had a story accepted by BBC Radio . |
| 11 | Mrs Postance believes that the heavy digging already completed to prepare the ground for the national curriculum has had a beneficial effect , at least on the teachers , even if the children have yet to reap the harvest : ‘ It 's focused our minds on what we are teaching . |
| 12 | THE CANADIAN series on the South Bank this week has had a somewhat diluted flavour . |
| 13 | This remote crofting community , where sheep outnumber people by 30 to one , has had a law-abiding past . |
| 14 | Blackburn v Middlesbrough Undefeated Blackburn name full-back Sulley , who has had a trapped thigh nerve . |
| 15 | Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past . |
| 16 | Terry Yorath , the Wales manager , is delaying his selection until he has checked on the fitness of Barry Horne , the Southampton midfielder , who has had a knee injury . |
| 17 | CHINA 'S political turmoil has had a ‘ traumatic ’ effect on Hong Kong , but in announcing plans for a Bill of Rights and expenditure of HK$127bn ( £10.1bn ) on a new international airport and port facilities , Sir David Wilson , the Governor , made a bold attempt yesterday to bolster the territory 's confidence . |
| 18 | The Soviet leader has had a more modest , though not dissimilar effect on East Germany , where his presence last weekend became a focus for calls for change of the type so steadfastly refused by his hosts . |
| 19 | The whole effect is as if an aftermarket body-kit specialist has had a go at embellishing a 911 , with the predictable result . |
| 20 | In the past 15 years Denison 's work has had a direct influence on the conservation movement in the North of England . |
| 21 | Even its critics concede that the Saatchi Collection has had a profound effect on the visual culture of this country , but it has always occupied an uneasy position — it has the status of a national institution , yet it is in private ownership . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher has been fortunate in that retirements of several senior personnel in the early 1980s gave her the opportunity to influence promotions ; there were thirteen appointments as Permanent Secretary in 1982 alone and she has had a hand in appointing the great majority of Permanent and Assistant Permanent Secretaries since 1979 . |
| 23 | The controversy surrounding the overall record of the Thatcher administration suggests that it has had a major impact . |
| 24 | As 60 per cent of the cassava grown in this area is marketed in towns , a yield increase even of this order of magnitude has had a positive impact on urban food supplies . |
| 25 | Here , the introduction of the hybrid maize variety SR 52 has had a dramatic effect on yields of maize . |
| 26 | Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job . |
| 27 | John likes to visit his old friends and also travels to see his brother who has had a stroke . |
| 28 | And although many architects still find it hard to say Charles 's name without curling their lips , most of them do admit that by bringing the whole subject into the public domain , architecture has had a much-needed shot in the arm . |
| 29 | Although based in Cardiff , the Welsh National Opera tours extensively , and for the last twelve years has had a regular season in London too . |
| 30 | The ALA has had a major influence in redesigning the police recruitment forms , which have gone through three drafts since the Met tried to interest Labour councils in their campaign to attract more ethnic minority officers . |