Example sentences of "having [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're always having to be perceptive in that line of work . ’ |
| 2 | Community Care Grants are to enable people to establish or maintain themselves in the community rather than having to be in hospitals , nursing homes and residential care homes etc . |
| 3 | These women he decries are simply weary with having to be constantly on guard against abuse , and why should they have to justify their position when the men are at fault ? |
| 4 | Otherwise it was a tiny Citroën or a moped , both clapped out , and having to be run with at high speed down the hill and then jumped on with alacrity . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not right her having to be cooped up in here with me . |
| 6 | Yet for women religious , celibacy has come to be a statement in direct opposition to western cultural norms of women having to be available to men and usually defined by their relationships to them . |
| 7 | This terminology borrowed directly from ideas of female passion , which also used a language of seething emotions having to be restrained by modesty . |
| 8 | He would clearly have preferred to be talking to Fiona on his other side , but the award was having to be paid for with politeness . |
| 9 | At the same time , cutbacks in services , and the sharp increase in family poverty ( families with children replaced pensioners as the main component of the lowest income group ) meant that need and demand were increasing , just when services were having to be rationed . |
| 10 | Fortunately , many types of pump can be restarted without having to be disconnected and dismantled . |
| 11 | There can be no greater cause of friction than a fund raising event losing money and having to be rescued by hard earned funds from other sources . |
| 12 | It was a nightmare of a trip , the trucks constantly breaking through the crust and having to be dug out . |
| 13 | Despite most eventers having to be clipped fairly frequently , Ambassador has a very fine coat , as do most entires . |
| 14 | A disadvantage is the absence of any convenient alternative route of return , steps having to be retraced exactly unless a kind friend can be persuaded to take his car to the Hill Inn at Chapel-le-Dale and wait there . |
| 15 | This stream passes down a wooded ravine with no access , steps having to be retraced to the Old Ing road . |
| 16 | Despite volunteers raising £55,000 to overcome the immediate financial nightmare , attempts are now having to be made to ensure the line 's long-term security . |
| 17 | Many species are having to be brought into captivity merely as an emergency measure because we can not act fast enough , or effectively enough , in the wild and we do not know enough about most plants and animals to conserve them . |
| 18 | Meat production is obviously inefficient for all sorts of reasons and meat production from beef reared intensively is really wasteful by all sorts of criteria ; it is very expensive on fossil fuel , it is not very productive in terms of food energy and the animals are obviously having to be killed in the process . |
| 19 | For example , being kept awake by a sufferer who can not sleep having to be continually watchful of someone who may do dangerous things , and having to cope with continual questioning or aggression may become unbearable . |
| 20 | Information from unconventional sources not related to the industry carries the extra burden of having to be proved relevant or urgent . |
| 21 | I had caused her further troubles by having boils and having to be brought back to England earlier than planned . |
| 22 | Industries with this freedom from having to be near power supplies , or bulky raw materials , are called foot loose . |
| 23 | Needless to say a great deal of cheating occurred — the biggest boy 's interpretation of the rules having to be accepted unless you were brave enough to risk a good hiding . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the example points up the paradox of the advantage to the teacher of having to experience new learning alongside and in co-operation with the children , and yet at the same time having to be an expert in the subject . |
| 25 | I remember small boys all wanting to be cowboys and the role of Indians having to be forced on the smaller ones . |
| 26 | They are having to be repaired at a total cost of some £20 million . |
| 27 | We may even look at a team of , say , eight people to establish a ‘ norm ’ for a company — a bit like having to be five feet eight inches tall to get into the police . ’ |
| 28 | Under the old rules England 's revised objective would have been 194 off 41 overs ( 41 × 4.72 ) , requiring a further 132 from 29 overs at 4.55 — not only less than 4.61 but having to be maintained for fewer overs . |
| 29 | Obvious examples are travelling or living abroad , the husband having to be away for long periods , having to relocate , changing children 's schools at an awkward stage in their career , having to do a lot of company entertaining . |
| 30 | The young James bore up bravely , although having to be carried about his flagship wrapped in blankets . |