Example sentences of "having [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If that is what they are good at doing and I 'm good at singing and projecting my image , that 's what we should stick to , and that 's why we are having so much success . ’ |
| 2 | Novelty plays an important part in all of our lives yet there is always something of a balance to be struck between having so much novelty that life becomes unbearably unpredictable and wearing , and the opposite where sameness drives us mad with boredom . |
| 3 | It 's having so much fun ! |
| 4 | One ancient landowner said to me ‘ To tell you the truth , we were getting the information that the Portuguese were not having so much money or education , so we were not that keen to marry them ’ . |
| 5 | " It is n't , after all , as though we had any reason for not having them , because now that Amelia and Magnus and Gabriel are all married there 's plenty of room , and my parents are anyway worried , politically speaking if you know what I mean , about having so much empty house ( though he 's hardly the kind of tenant that that kind of consideration would provide ) , and he even pays some rent from time to time . |
| 6 | ‘ I would be like your Queen : not having so much power but maintaining my dignity and status . |
| 7 | ‘ Sands tells me , ’ he observed , ‘ that some grand rich people , relations of his , have promised to come along to buy — to ease their consciences , one supposes , they having so much , and the poor devils whom the bazaar is to benefit having so little . ’ |
| 8 | The army turned back in drenched and miserable retreat towards Welshpool , without having so much as sighted a Welsh force of any kind . |
| 9 | ‘ If OPEC is having so much trouble coming up with this agreement , it 's a bad sign for how they will be able to deal with the start-up of Iraq , ’ the analyst added . |
| 10 | She was having so much trouble with that Volvo . |
| 11 | Oh God I hate having so much shit in my pocket ! |
| 12 | I 've got so much bloody , I hate having so much stuff in my pockets it really really does annoy me . |
| 13 | In 1963 , many producers were having as much difficulty securing screenings for their films as their predecessors had in the early 1920s . |
| 14 | It is generally worth having as much as 150mm of insulation in most homes , although the comparatively shallow depth of most ceiling joists means that you may have to lay the insulation across the tops of the joists to achieve the required thickness . |
| 15 | The continuing scarcity of certain types of rural housing is now having as much effect upon shaping the English village community as the influx of newcomers . |
| 16 | I subscribe to having as much information as possible available at any given time . |
| 17 | We have been accused by some of having too many features about the south of England , by others of having too many about Scotland and Wales ; of having too much mud on our boots , of romanticising the countryside , of being too green , too blue , too red , too expensive and aspirational in our tastes , too harshly realistic in our coverage of controversial issues . |
| 18 | I should think it is working the way of bringing back the workhouse through having too much economy . ’ |
| 19 | Clarissa , refusing to take such foolishness seriously , accused him lightly of having too much champagne . |
| 20 | This collective approach would help us to get where we want without having too much trouble with sterling . |
| 21 | His next effort , Desperate Remedies described in Early Life as the ‘ unfortunate consequence ’ of recommendations to ‘ write a story with a plot ’ , is a melodramatic tale in the Wilkie Collins tradition which Macmillan was quick to reject as having too much action , chiefly of an undesirable nature . |
| 22 | Whilst high blood pressure is rare among young people it is common among those over thirty-five , no doubt caused by following an unhealthy lifestyle — eating too much , consuming too much alcohol , having too much salt in our food , smoking , lack of exercise , and suffering from too much stress . |
| 23 | We finally realised that even on our meagre sum we could avoid having too much month left over at the end of our money . |
| 24 | Once it was understood that the Masai used a system of rotational grazing , and that the uncertain climate of Masailand demanded flexibility from them in their movements , it was evident that , far from having too much land , they probably had too little . |
| 25 | The tabloids turned on them for selling the idea of drugs to schoolchildren and having too much sex . |
| 26 | ‘ If anything goes wrong , sir , I do n't think we 'll be having too much to say to each other when we 're in vaporized orbit . ’ |
| 27 | H.T.s and Floribundas are glorious , but there is such a thing as too much sameness , as the saying goes : ‘ having too much of a good thing ’ . |
| 28 | If we need to beware of having too much conflict in a group , we need also to beware of the reverse . |
| 29 | Thus monotony and fragmentation are intimately connected , and through the need to accomplish a long series of jobs each day , a feeling of always having too much to do may be added . |
| 30 | Neither do feelings of ‘ having too much to get through ’ relate to the number of children the housewife has , or to the kind of aids and amenities she possesses . |