Example sentences of "be having be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one we 're having is placed into a tiny gauze bag overnight with the calix of a freshly plucked lotus . ’ |
| 2 | The argument we 're having is unravelling |
| 3 | Now the debate we 're having is whether or not we fill those and transfer , not go and recruit extra people but we 'd reduce the S I S , cos one of the issues is that erm the overspend on Marvin is seven figures . |
| 4 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 5 | If you are elderly and the operation you are having is quite major , then be realistic . |
| 6 | I 'm not sure , in the lists in the magazine we should have appeared as being having been released |
| 7 | Okay so the problem that you were having was differentiation and integration . |
| 8 | The fact of these men 's having been guided argues a body of local botanical knowledge as early as the first part of the 17th century . |
| 9 | This is a poor harvest from those weeks or months that the Pounds spent in Sicily ; and indeed it is no harvest at all , since none of these allusions depends in any way on the poet 's having been physically present in the island . |
| 10 | Scaevola is less than enthusiastic , but he does state that a case can be made for a trust 's having been established . |
| 11 | The fact of the recent move plus my mind 's having been engaged elsewhere might , I hoped , explain this otherwise crass stupidity . |
| 12 | In spite of the causal theory 's having been taken over from the rationalist , Descartes , it could be put to use in the interests of empiricism . |
| 13 | If the necessity for the agreement is overlooked then so will be the necessity of the child 's having been trained to react to certain things in a certain way for it to mean anything by ‘ It is red ’ . |
| 14 | It was improbable in the extreme that Brian 's sterling qualities had come to the notice of the Comptroller of the Household , and she could only assume that the summons had been the consequence of her father 's having been an RA . |
| 15 | The fact of his eldest son 's having been knighted within a month of Noell 's death from the plague ( on 29 September 1665 at his home in the parish of St Olave Jewry , London ) suggests continuing royal favour , although his executors did not escape unwelcome attention from royal revenue officials , notably in connection with allegations of his having profited improperly from the gains of privateering — England and Spain remaining technically at war until some little time after the Restoration . |
| 16 | It ranges from the Dean 's having been arrested for murdering Paul Gray to the Bishop 's having hired Lord Cumbermound 's beagles to track down the corpse . ’ |
| 17 | She wondered if she should tell him about Amy 's having been a nurse . |
| 18 | ONE OF the world 's major orchid shows is to open in Glasgow in May , in spite of the event 's having been dubbed a fiasco less than a month ago . |
| 19 | The granting of peerages to former politicians , chiefs of the defence staff and so on has the effect of enhancing the status of those whose only achievement in life is having been engendered by a privileged set of loins . |
| 20 | Loren seemed to have desperation in her eyes , and the good time that she was having was a fierce one . |
| 21 | The problem that he was having was that she was his legal wife 's sister and there was some rivalry or jealousy developing between his legal wife and er this other girl and he was n't sure what he what to do about it . |
| 22 | Erm , he was having was n't he ? |