Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] having a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a former category A authority , Westminster SSD is one of five the DoH categorised as having a high incidence of HIV . |
| 2 | At one level this meant giving each town or neighbourhood the cinema it deserved and having a range of cinemas in down-town areas . |
| 3 | A body of men and women ( a ) identifiable by reference to some register or record ; ( b ) recognised as having a special skill and learning in some field of activity in which the public needs protection against incompetence , the standards of skill and learning being prescribed by the profession itself ; ( c ) holding themselves out as being willing to serve the public ; ( d ) volun-tarily submitting themselves to standards of ethical conduct beyond those required of the ordinary citizen by law and ; ( e ) undertaking to accept personal responsibility to those whom they serve for their actions and to their profession for maintaining public confidence . |
| 4 | Ray Hughes collapsed while having a lunchtime drink at his local with his wife Pat . |
| 5 | The expected decline in services may simply mean that we come to regret the time when we felt that having a significant manufacturing base was an optional extra we could do without . |
| 6 | In Ystradgynlais , he regained that ‘ wonderful feeling ’ , lost in ‘ years of perfecting the painter 's craft ’ , of having , ‘ felt that having a soul and a mind I needed little else ’ . |
| 7 | McIlvanney says that Stein , who worked as a miner until he was 27 , ‘ understood that having a talent for sport can be a matter of luck , not merit . |
| 8 | Young Jack thought he was hard , thought that having a few blondes and getting a few legs broken made you a man , but underneath it all he was soft , a little boy . |
| 9 | I 0 shows , only a minority of all temporary workers said that having a training contract was their reason for having taken a temporary job . |