Example sentences of "have had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responses to a questionnaire sent to NHS authorities in March 1988 had shown that only 8 per cent of employers requires nurses and health visitors to undertake re-entry programmes before employment , even though individuals might have had substantial breaks in service . |
| 2 | For all I know , Léon Cohn-Casson might have had substantial reasons for believing in his invulnerability . |
| 3 | It must have had substantial embankments leading to it , for the nearby ground level is that of the line . |
| 4 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 5 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 6 | A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday . |
| 7 | One would have had greater confidence if the selection were from a longer list nominated by other bodies unconnected with the government of the day . |
| 8 | One or more of these stages may have had greater impact in some countries than others , creating separate democratic inheritances onto which the extension of the franchise was superimposed . |
| 9 | They should have had greater confidence in their power to heal . |
| 10 | So the smaller children in the crowd must have had awful problems . |
| 11 | A HARLEY Street doctor jailed for seven years for a series of sex attacks on women visiting his surgery may have had 100 victims . |
| 12 | Executions are easily exaggerated , but the Encomiast 's statement that many English leaders were killed with Eadric , and that of the later Evesham chronicle that many of his soldiers died too , are quite plausible , given that he would have had powerful henchmen whom it was doubtless politic to eliminate . |
| 13 | It seems clear , however , that Chatterton need n't have had prodigious talent for the talent expended in the novel to take effect . |
| 14 | The patient should have had central chest pain in the classic distribution for at least 15 minutes . |
| 15 | And she must have had five pees or six . |
| 16 | The vogue of the Klan lasted for a relatively short time , but at its height , it may have had five million members . |
| 17 | All this business last night was an obvious waste of time ; it probably was n't even her and if it was , she could have had five different rides before daylight . |
| 18 | The ship-borne army will have had five hours of marching and fighting . |
| 19 | ‘ On another day we might have had four or five tries in the second half , but it just was n't to be , ’ said London coach Tony Jorden . |
| 20 | Gooch reached his half-century by pushing Waqar off his hip for four , and might have had four more had not the ball bobbled off the wretched Cornhill advertisement mat at straight-hit . |
| 21 | Hiding her feelings quickly , she said , ‘ I would have had four more years of your love than I can ever have now . ’ |
| 22 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 23 | This last week McGeechan will have had four or five nights working on the videos , and preparing the training sessions . |
| 24 | You would have had four . |
| 25 | He must have had four glasses while I was there . |
| 26 | right we must have had four X cubed minus X in brackets |
| 27 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
| 28 | But for the opening of two artificial pitches at Feltham School , they would have had great difficulty in finding a home venue in recent seasons . |
| 29 | If they had served small areas , the CMHTs would have had great difficulty in liaising with the specialist facilities and organizations ( statutory and non-statutory ) which characterize the mental handicap field and which necessarily tend to cover large areas if not regions . |
| 30 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |