Example sentences of "have [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | A male without testes would live longer than a , than a male with them , undoubtedly , on average five to seven years longer , and erm generally be more healthy in terms of avoiding a lot of problems that , that they might have had through being male . |
| 2 | That nerve-racking encounter with Julius had dashed any hopes Jessamy had ever had of being able to get a good night 's sleep . |
| 3 | ( 198 ) above , for example , is uttered by a young lady who is recounting to her horrified mother the experience she has just had of being thrown into prison and badly treated after being arrested in a bar brawl . |
| 4 | After all this I 've had with being late you know ? |
| 5 | I wanted to give back something for the great interest and happiness I have had from being able to make music to people . |
| 6 | Thus , if a person is given a drug which gets rid of any resistance he/she might have had to being taken into captivity , then , in a very strong sense , his/her autonomy has been violated . |
| 7 | And after watching Fox initial a three-year contract , Northern chairman Chris Caisley commented : ‘ It 's been the most difficult job I 've had since being here , both financially and having to deal with Featherstone . ’ |
| 8 | This is not purely a result of them being faster sailors , but partly a measure of the clean wind they have had by being at the front . |
| 9 | ‘ What possible reason could I have for being tense ? |
| 10 | And if I 'm right , what better reason could he have for being so implacable against Isambard ? ’ |
| 11 | The Open University 's ( address on page 148 ) pre-retirement course book lists some of the good as well as the bad feelings you can have about being alone : ‘ I feel I do n't have to put on an act ’ , ‘ I feel really me ’ , ‘ I feel relaxed ’ are some of the items on the list . |
| 12 | It will banish any anxieties that you may have about being alone at night or coming home to an empty house . |
| 13 | It will give her something of her own to love and care for which will return her love , and help to reduce any feelings she may have of being ‘ odd man out ’ in the home . |
| 14 | In each case mentioned , therefore , the employer 's commercial assessment and endeavours or the prevailing economic circumstances will significantly reduce or even remove any prospect the employee might have of being entitled to a compensation award . |
| 15 | Whatever initial reasons people had for being attracted to Ian Paisley as a politician , the main reason for their support was their commitment to the principles he enunciated . |
| 16 | A perverse testimony to the feeling that most Romanians had of being constantly under the scrutiny of an all-embracing network of human and electronic observers were published by an official Romanian journal in the summer of 1988 . |
| 17 | That was the first knowledge that Yvonne had of being black . |
| 18 | Susan Einzig , who was often present , felt that the excitement generated grew out of the sense all had of being a part of a gang , special and apart . |
| 19 | Naturally he could n't forbear from upsetting me , nor ruining what slim remaining chance I had of being like anyone — let alone everyone — else . |
| 20 | She looked at Roman , so strong and dependable ; any woman would give thanks every day of her life for a man like him , and she had just ruined any chance she had of being that woman . |
| 21 | The advantages her sister had in being so much younger presented themselves forcibly . |
| 22 | ‘ They go together , ’ said Garvin , ‘ because the only legal basis we have for being in Egypt is that we 're here by the Khedive 's invitation . |
| 23 | Of course , nobody as yet knows how intentionality — the property that mental phenomena have of being about something other than themselves — or consciousness emerge from the operations of the brain . |
| 24 | As class sizes will be limited , the earlier you get your entry in the more chance you have of being included in your preferred classes . |
| 25 | Yet there is something you can do , and the earlier you start the more chance you have of being successful . |
| 26 | The more successful the town and country is the more chance we as individuals have of being successful . ’ |