Example sentences of "it [prep] having " in BNC.

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1 Essentially this is a matter of love for the total cosmic reality of which we are a part as something whose magnificence transcends our own puny being , and gratitude to it for having brought us forth in the heart of it .
2 I mean we were in a particular discussion last night I mean that chap was making a particular point and we were able to ask questions and that was very useful and it helped everything else and as a result I have a view that Hydro Electric have a certain commitment to the community and I respect it for having that commitment .
3 I mean , it 's one of the things I wan na include in our discussion if we get round to it about having more resources available .
4 I see it as having , through a united Europe , a united economy .
5 Is it worth having computers in primary schools ?
6 I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks .
7 But he 's been doing very well at it despite having to learn terrifying new skills , like walking a tightrope .
8 At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity .
9 The only rigour in Hennigian cladistics is produced by the straitjacket of assumptions that Hennig has fastened on himself and his version of the subject , which effectively separates it from having anything to do with evolution .
10 A die-hard SVR4 advocate , Tandem is interested in seeing its fault-tolerant enablers incorporated in the base operating system to save it from having to re-invent the wheel each time a revision is done and to allow it to focus on true value-added differentiators .
11 By concentrating on only the fastest of fast-moving consumer goods , they keep their stock at a minimum — often selling it before having to pay suppliers .
12 I did it on having testicular cancer .
13 Thus Paisley was free to create party policy and to articulate it without having to convince a large membership .
14 The soil level is raised , so the patient can reach it without having to bend too far .
15 They want low-octane fuel because they can manufacture it without having to spend money to make substitutes for lead , which would be necessary to retain higher octane fuel .
16 Yes , I mean I have a very helpful husband , but he 's helping , he sees him himself as helping me rather than doing his share of it without having to ask what help I need .
17 There seemed no going back on it without having to retail some further lie and anyway I was sick at heart — without The Fat Controller 's gyroscopic girth to encompass it my world was spinning out of control .
18 Were naive enough to think they could get through it without having an appraisal system , which I could not believe .
19 Combining the benefits of a budget account with a borrowing facility , the Revolving Budget Account helps to tackle unexpected bills and allows you to buy what you want when you want it without having to set up further loan arrangements .
20 Mrs. Dow always kept my copy under the counter and would produce it without having to be asked for it whenever I called .
21 What I what I 'd really hope for is to be able to do it without having to go to college and just do it by experience but that 's I 'd have to be awful awful good .
22 I am distressed enough about it without having you people coming here , interrupting my work . ’
23 So it 's nought , point , six , two , so for our thirty seven minutes it 's , four point six , two , there we are look , but the thing is you can now do it without having to look at a scale
24 And this is a way of doing it without having to , you know , log-in to er a specific tradition , but to invoke , sort of a wider , more general principles .
25 ‘ It 's his birthday , Monsieur Armand , but I 'm afraid we were spoiling it by having a political discussion . ’
26 The diet was too severe and I broke it by having eggs and fish .
27 ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’
28 You can see how Dorothy Sayers did it by having the victim being supposed to be actively painting when in fact he was dead , and it is by using some such piece of lateral thinking , making the victim provide the alibi in this instance , that the trick is probably most easily brought off .
29 I managed to avoid a lot of it by having some tasks of my own .
30 You do it by having very high inflation .
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