Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] having the " in BNC.

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1 Within a year the policy of the ECRS focused on having the sign languages of the member states officially recognised as a minority language in each of the respective countries .
2 Owing to fears of the anaesthetist 's incompetence , Dustin insisted on having the operation the following morning .
3 Mr Ashe is the second prominent US athlete to admit to having the virus .
4 In short , the Citroën XM benefits from having the most advanced suspension system to be found on any production car .
5 Therefore it is suggested that for the husband whose outrage forecloses the possibility of a mere divorce proceeding , a clear case exists for having the courts carve out an exception to the three-year rule so as to allow a suit to be brought for nullity through fraud or mistake.56 To the protesting reader who may feel that this spurious reasoning leads us into the realm of nonsense , the only answer is that it is the purpose of this paper to provoke a re-examination of certain fundamental values and ideas .
6 She would not claim to be content , because contentment came with having the man you loved lying beside you on a cold night ; it came with that certain wonderful intimacy which Beth had experienced once long ago , and which was lost for ever .
7 There are others , however , where even after centuries of use this matching is not obviously satisfactory , for example violin playing would seem to be posturally a disaster , but there may be some subtle aids to very precise control of the sound generated in having the source of sound very close to the ear and perhaps some vibration transmission by the direct contact of this instrument and the jawbone .
8 Owen O'Donnell ( 23 ) , appeared at the City 's Magistrates Court charged with having the drill in the Strand Road Kentucky Fried Chicken on April 22 of this year .
9 This was accepted as a small price to pay for having the wide range of voltage output , and unless a load situation arises which takes a rapidly fluctuating current from some low value up to beyond 3A at the 15V point , the performance of the unit is quite satisfactory .
10 She discarded the trouser suit for a set of underwear in palest pink , and Claudia seethed at having the most wonderful moments of her life dismissed in so summary a fashion .
11 Uniqueness lies in having the Queen as sovereign . ’
12 Some relief came from having the burden of exhaustion lifted .
13 Getting on in the art world has a lot to do with having the right contacts . ’
14 Although in November 1986 Mr Vafa succeeded in having the original decree totally recalled , an unusual move , the terms of the interdict were erroneously incorporated in the new decree .
15 Another approach to the local coherence problem benefits from having the paragraphs on the node-link-node triples rather than on the nodes .
16 Some branches ' totals appear better than they should ; Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion benefited from having the Youth Conference and National Eisteddfod in their areas so they received a disproportionate number of HQ recruits .
17 Some branches ' totals appear better than they should ; Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion benefited from having the Youth Conference and National Eisteddfod in their areas so they received a disproportionate number of HQ recruits .
18 Action may be required by the court itself , the court issuing a Letter of Request asking either a foreign court or another competent authority in the state of destination to assist in having the documents served ; this practice is particularly entrenched in Latin America .
19 The airport was closed for six days last week when fire crews refused to cross picket lines by baggage handlers protesting against having the new system imposed on them .
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