Example sentences of "have [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | OLD ASIA hands still talk nostalgically about the Good Old Days in many of the region 's cities and ports , which have since had much of their former life and glamour squeezed out of them by oppressive regimes , overcrowding or economic decline . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is not certain that Warrington , best remembered as Philip in Rising Damp , actually swallowed the medicine , but his performances have since had great zest . |
| 4 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 5 | And although I have since had my own shows in West End galleries in London , the excitement of being part of the Summer Exhibition has never worn thin . |
| 6 | The school was Summerhill , run by A. S. Neill , whose revolutionary views on education have since had considerable influence on modern teaching methods . |
| 7 | The affluent clients of the smartest shops of Hong Kong , Paris , New York , London or Tokyo respond to the same qualities in ivory as those which attracted Palaeolithic mammoth hunters up to thirty thousand years ago and have continued to beguile all who have since had access to the material . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Er erm we have since had the alteration in our structure here which of course puts quite a bit of it out of date . |
| 10 | Unable to reconcile their view of education with the form of schooling they are now required to deliver , they have regretfully had to turn off the tap , and substitute instead a tape-loop of the sound of running water . |
| 11 | Indeed I piled up on my home bookshelf many more volumes than appear here and which I have regretfully had to omit . |
| 12 | New or secondary issue underwriters have rarely had to take up undersubscribed issues as the timings of such are usually gauged to ensure the full take-up of the shares on offer . |
| 13 | A few authorities , however , have long had a formal policy of allowing parents to see their children 's school records , and individual schools have sometimes had an open files policy and reported beneficial results to the motivation of pupils and relations with parents . |
| 14 | Pupils have long had the guarantee of a careers service , the promise of a YT place is familiar , and the colleges rarely turn applicants away on any ground except actual lack of room or staff , but the reminder to the young person of their rights is important , as is the willingness of large numbers of companies to take part in what amounts to a joint recruitment exercise . |
| 15 | Almost adjacent to the vineyards of Aÿ , these vines have long had a reputation for producing wines of similar quality and character to the famous grand cru . |
| 16 | Stories can teach , entertain , and entrance , and women have long had a reputation for creating an atmosphere which keeps the listener spellbound . |
| 17 | On its new journey it was taken in turn by bike , canoe , sail boat , runners , riders , cyclists and walkers to the north-west , on to Skye and ultimately to Ness in Lewis , where the islanders have long had links with North Rona . |
| 18 | Nor are women prominent in senior positions in the professions although they have long had a place there in those areas concerned with women 's affairs which are most clearly associated with their assumed ‘ natural ’ role of caring for and serving others . |
| 19 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 20 | Of course , the press had been the earliest communications free market , even if , in practice , most European nations have long had an additional element of political party patronage and state aid to individual titles and to the sector as a whole . |
| 21 | At common law the police have long had the power to effect an arrest to prevent a breach of the peace . |
| 22 | Individual property owners in cities have long had to conform to legal controls , but planning as a more widespread activity dates only from the mid-twentieth century ( Hall 1982 ) . |
| 23 | Although the underlying need for a law of contempt in this area seems to be clear , I have long had doubts about the procedural aspects . |
| 24 | For example in Germany , works councils have long had access to resources to investigate design of work systems under the Quality of Working Life . |
| 25 | The Socialists have long had an electoral pact with the Communists ( which is still in force ) to withdraw whichever of their candidates is the least well placed in the second round . |
| 26 | GEORGE HARRISON and ERIC CLAPTON have apparently had a falling out , resulting in Clapton 's diminished presence on the upcoming live album of the pair 's recent Japan tour . |
| 27 | It 's been overtaken by events in that you have apparently had an application in and that 's being studied , when , next Monday ? |
| 28 | Developments in the economic analysis of politics have perhaps had an even greater general significance than contributions to the economic analysis of law . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Since labour costs account for around 60 per cent of operating costs in BR and RENFE , these pressures for financial stringency and cost cutting have naturally had a major impact on industrial relations in the two enterprises as later chapters will show . |