Example sentences of "by having the " in BNC.

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1 But the remaining 43 were to be elected by local and national politicians on a vocational basis : that is , they had to be elected to five panels for which they would qualify by having the requisite vocational expertise — administrative , cultural — educational , labour , industrial and commercial , and agricultural .
2 However , the more popular recipe is empathy , achieved by having the patience to allow the complainant sufficient time to air the problem ( reinforcing the importance of allowing neighbourhood police autonomy to manage their own time ) , coupled with displays of sympathy , understanding , and even agreement .
3 Reproduction of the slender frames of the original wrought-iron casements was effected by having the new fixed and opening lights fabricated from standard steel sections , colour-coated to match the finish of the original metalwork .
4 Woven carpets , such as Axminster and Wilton , are still second to none in design and quality , and these are still produced by having the backing and the pile both woven at the same time .
5 But consider how He was heard : certainly not by having the cup taken away , but in being … supported while He drank it ; and in victoriously accomplishing His grand design through drinking it to the very dreg . ’
6 Although it is of course true that people can be greatly helped by having the opportunity to talk about their impending loss , ( both their worries about it and their wish to talk about it together with the person who is dying ) this must be when the time feels right for the people involved and not when the helper , professional or lay , deems it appropriate .
7 The first act of the leaders of what were now rival armies , at Perth and Stirling , was to arrange a truce , on May 29 ; almost as quickly , Mary of Guise broke its terms , by having the Mass restored in Perth .
8 Ken Hargreaves , the sitting member , was probably helped last time by having the controversial Liverpool councillor Keva Coombes as his opponent .
9 Lift pump types are distinguished by having the pump mechanisms on top of a fixed reservoir .
10 Those who arrive late are being rewarded by having the meeting delayed for their benefit .
11 It may provide a school with a sports strip , probably indicating sponsorship by having the firm 's name on clothing , or donate some surplus machinery to a college .
12 Villa owners impressed their neighbours by having the largest and best bath houses they could afford .
13 This intensive care area should provide some degree of physical security by having the number of exits reduced to a minimum , preferably only one .
14 For human victims , the classic he-man response to this injury is the ‘ cut-and-suck ’ treatment , in which the unfortunate sufferer undergoes further trauma by having the site of the venom injection sliced open with a sharp knife and the blood sucked from the now gaping wound .
15 If these are not activated , by having the legs stretched out in front , for example , then you will end up sitting in a slumped manner .
16 You either crumble , or minimise the impact by having a sense of humour , by being conscious that certain responsibilities have come your way early , and by having the intelligence to cope . ’
17 It is better if this problem can be avoided by having the operators work the system properly .
18 Soldiers are compelled to fight , to bleed , to die , to safeguard the interest of the Crown and the State — and Blake makes a metaphor out of that connection by having the soldier 's sigh run in blood down the walls of the palace .
19 If this is the case and you want to close the flue , you still have to start by having the flue swept .
20 By having the paragraphs indexed as node-link-node triples , one gets better insight into the relationship between the paragraph and the semantic net than when the paragraph is indexed by just a node name .
21 Other prisoners said that in Keraterm — a notorious PoW camp which they dubbed Auschwitz — prisoners were crippled by having the ligaments in a knee cut out and tied in a knot so they could not return to the fighting .
22 A transverse ridge counters this by having the length of the ridge run across the sleeping area .
23 By having the individual numbers logged at a central computer , it is then possible to track down the dog 's owner without difficulty .
24 As the ultimate gambler , you will therefore play the odds by having the maximum number .
25 Others spend their ill-gotten gains on fast chariots which they race against each other , trying to outdo their rivals by having the fastest or flashiest machine .
26 One special use for an index register is to implement a stack in an area of store , by having the modifier field point to the current top element of the stack .
27 You can see how Dorothy Sayers did it by having the victim being supposed to be actively painting when in fact he was dead , and it is by using some such piece of lateral thinking , making the victim provide the alibi in this instance , that the trick is probably most easily brought off .
28 John Parker , who himself took a nasty knock on the head while batting in a famous Press match at Harrogate in 1977 , stiffens his reader on page 9 by having the bumptious captain of Surrey keel over ‘ like a battleship hit by a torpedo ’ .
29 I suspect that they also had scholarly and dedicated teachers and well read ministers and the encouragement of parents who realised that the only chance their children had of improving their way of life was by having the best education possible which would enable them to compete for the limited number of places which were available in the colleges and universities .
30 So that you 're , in other words you either , you 're , by having the money back in your hand you are then restored to the position you were in before you bought the goods in the first place .
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