Example sentences of "[adv] [be] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | My grown-up children are on their way to see me , and in order to do so are having to travel a two-hour journey on the motorway . |
| 2 | Other advantages of living alone are having time and space for myself to read , write , draw , think , learn , do what I feel is right for myself . |
| 3 | Rather , ‘ the censure of this essay must be on a somewhat different ground — that of my wishing to have all at once what can only be had in succession in an historical process , a co-existence of the primitive and the most highly sophisticated ’ . |
| 4 | Federal law on insider dealing has become so well developed that recourse to common law remedies need only be had in exceptional circumstances . |
| 5 | Many people have become paupers after their association with her but the pleasure of her company can only be had as long as one is in possession of riches to bestow on her . ’ |
| 6 | What would be helpful perhaps is to have a close relationship with a mother-type figure who is not your mother . |
| 7 | They 're ha quite happy to do it once a month but like you said what they will not do erm obviously is to have a lot of sort of things like standing orders and that sort of thing . |
| 8 | So is having a good time . |
| 9 | ‘ He has n't managed to find a replacement for you , so is having to make do with temporary staff . |
| 10 | Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Lothar , the moment Pippin had joined him , flung down the gauntlet : he alone was to have imperial power , he said , and the interests of his brothers no longer mattered to him . |
| 12 | Being highly centralized , the British system has not been to have powerful centres outside London from which groups of services can be conducted for that area , but to administer each of the important functions of government from Whitehall for the whole of the country . |
| 13 | The pair of them had probably not been having an affair for long — only perhaps after Kemp 's long infatuation with the semi-permanently sozzled Sheila had begun to wear off . |
| 14 | Specialist journals of the ‘ have to have ’ variety , needed by all good universities , are holding up well in an unsympathetic environment , but journals publishers generally are having to market harder to maintain subscriptions . |
| 15 | Oh so we 've already been had . |
| 16 | Y-you … ’ she spluttered , and , loving him , found it absolutely beyond belief that he should believe that she and his cousin had just been having a fine old time . |
| 17 | That 's right , and , and the first act of the play is a rehearsal and it keeps stopping and the director keeps sort of straightening them out and they 're dealing with little problems , and when you 're actually rehearsing it you find yourself sort of repeating the play because it 's so ac Michael Frayn who wrote it has so accurately observed what happens er when you 're directing a play that er you find yourself re-enacting the play and , and suddenly find a discussion you 've just been having has part sounds as if it 's come out of the script . |
| 18 | ‘ If the answer is yes , then you will shortly be having your workstation assessed to ensure it is properly set up to allow you to work comfortably . |
| 19 | A COUNTY 'S busiest road will shortly be having work done on it and traffic holdups are likely . |
| 20 | I 've seen Dad and we shall soon be having dinner . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , my Mum told me not to let boys fondle me or kiss me now I 've started me periods , otherwise , if I did , I 'd soon be having a baby . ’ |
| 22 | Eleven days after he had taken Estabrook to the encampment in Streatham , Chant realized he would soon be having a visitor . |
| 23 | Could n't Mr Hall just be having some kind of bad day ? |
| 24 | ‘ They will just be having a normal family Christmas , all of them together . ’ |
| 25 | The premise on which African governments worked was that if capital could not be had on highly concessional terms it was better to accept it on terms more or less defined by the donors . |
| 26 | However , the government emphasises that a clean environment can not be had on the cheap , and electricity and water consumers are being prepared for increased charges to meet the costs . |
| 27 | Those things which confer privilege ( quality shops , education , flats and health care ) are acquired through privilege in the first place ; they can not be had for money . |
| 28 | ‘ If a child after birth has no right of action for pre-natal injuries , we have a wrong inflicted for which there is no remedy , for , although the father may be entitled to compensation for the loss he has incurred and the mother for what she has suffered , yet there is a residuum of injury for which compensation can not be had save at the suit of the child . |
| 29 | ‘ If a child after birth has no right of action for pre-natal injuries , we have a wrong inflicted for which there is no remedy , for , although the father may be entitled to compensation for the loss he has incurred and the mother for what she has suffered , yet there is a residuum of injury for which compensation can not be had save at the suit of the child . |
| 30 | Friedrich Hayek , an Austrian economist living in England , issued a seminal warning : full employment , social security and freedom from want could not be had unless they came as by-products of a system that released the free energies of individuals ; furthermore planning created not certainty , but uncertainty . |