Example sentences of "[conj] having [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils were significantly less likely to have participated in the follow up studies if at baseline they had reported being smokers or having previously smoked or tried cigarettes , if their father or mother was a smoker , or if their father was unemployed or a manual worker . |
| 2 | After talking to an unco-operative debtor on the phone , or having yet another confrontation with the Sales Department , do you feel calm and relaxed ? |
| 3 | But a return to traditional farming does not mean wearing smocks again or having only three little pigs . |
| 4 | Externalisation or blaming — The stresses and strains of a particular job or having too much money , or alternatively too little , may be blamed for alcoholism or drug addiction or other form of addictive disease , despite the fact that these problems are widespread throughout the whole of society . |
| 5 | Seeing that our law refuses to contemplate the possibility of any person either being without a domicile or having more than one domicile , the rules on this subject are not only intricate but highly artificial . |
| 6 | The artists in the show were a young and academic group , many completing or having recently gained postgraduate qualifications . |
| 7 | In such cases , some adjustment should be made for the individual wishing to complete a set , rather than having wholly to duplicate it . |
| 8 | ‘ That is sometimes worse than having too little , ’ Otto agreed . |
| 9 | To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out . |
| 10 | There is , of course , an enormous difference between the private/public demands of the two examples : writing my own private notes protects me rather more than having publicly to make suggestions on how the teacher as ‘ patient ’ should , say , knock on a door . |
| 11 | The formal school , its very formality often proclaimed through uniforms , school prefects and termly reports which show marks and grades , continues to co-exist alongside others which although having almost identical idea on content ( eg that young children should be led to an understanding of life in caves and Victorian towns and how to calculate the area in square metres of a field or a carpet ) adopt a radically different approach to achieve a seemingly identical end . |
| 12 | All their Lordships need to say is that having carefully considered the arguments advanced , in the manner indicated by Griffiths L.J. , they can see no ground upon which Barnett J. would have been justified in taking the decision-making power out of the hands of the district judge , and substituting a decision of his own . |
| 13 | I was pleased to be able to announce that I had followed many of their therapies , but fearfully expressed my alarm and disappointment that having religiously performed my visualizations , cancer may have returned by the back door . |
| 14 | By the final scene , however , we infer his dislike of McKendrick from the fact that having seriously impinged on his negative face by placing Hollar 's thesis in his briefcase and putting him into a situation of considerable personal danger , he makes no apology for his action whatsoever . |
| 15 | Whatever the outcome it seems absurd that having supposedly wiped the poll tax off the political agenda , ministers are still saddled with it , Darlington council is still saddled with imposing it and , worst of all , ordinary people are still saddled with paying it . |
| 16 | The problem here is that having so easy access and the largest concentration of easy routes , it is very crowded at holiday time . |
| 17 | Vic tried to argue that it did n't make any difference how many toilets you had , it was the number of times you flushed them that mattered , but his father was convinced that having so many toilets was an incitement to unnecessary peeing , therefore to excessive flushing . |
| 18 | ‘ It is almost inconceivable that having so rightly stressed the tourist potential of Caernarfon that the Trust should then fail to seize the opportunity to capitalise on that potential . |
| 19 | Doi was known to have wanted to field at least 180 JSP candidates but was opposed by many local party organizations on the grounds that having more than one JSP candidate in each of the country 's 130 multi-member constituencies might split the socialist vote and endanger the position of JSP incumbents . |
| 20 | It has in the past been notorious that a pupil in an English school , having learned French for seven years , and having even passed at grade A at A level , may yet be unable to utter more than a few halting sentences , and be hardly able to follow a simple conversation with a native speaker . |
| 21 | It occurred to me later that there 's something almost , that there 's a cultural imprint , not to make a pun , of this letterpress image of a page in the structural necessities of locking a page and having even gutters and relatively rectilinear forms that creates a feeling of reliability , security and permanence . |
| 22 | There was already a cat flap in the back door , and having thoroughly inspected the house Deano and Pandy disappeared to explore outside . |
| 23 | If I ca n't still clamber up a mountain when I 'm 55 , subject to health and having both legs of course , I want to be put down humanely . |
| 24 | On another page we read of a homeless man being allowed to freeze nearly to death in the centre of our capital city , and having both legs amputated from frostbite . |
| 25 | This is particularly the case with general principles such as making desirable behaviour worthwhile , setting limits and having clearly defined but fair rules of conduct . |
| 26 | It wrings higher performance per clock than anybody and it has not broken compatibility the way Intel intends to do with the P6 and the way IBM has done with the Rios and its subset , the PowerPC , having apparently failed to scale the thing down to the desktop and having instead been forced to strip out 40 instructions and substitute a software emulator . |
| 27 | No he was , he was but he was quite high up in the Royal Australian Air Force and having today which must have been in the middle of the night because Thursday , bit behind are n't they Australian 's ? |
| 28 | Candidates must be graduates , normally with a good first degree , and having either considerable professional experience of translation or of another relevant professional field , or attested research interests in translation . |
| 29 | This category has a huge degree of variation in it with boards varying in length from 3.60–3.75m and having equally large differences in volume . |
| 30 | He took out his first two engine patents in 1886 , and having progressively improved the design to give more complete combustion and avoid pre-ignition , in 1890 he was granted two patents for a hot-bulb oil engine , two years before Rudolf Diesel 's first English patent for his compression-ignition oil engine . |