Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have the [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I worked directly under the Manager , Signor Cavatorta , who was very able and extremely diplomatic with his customers , and I learnt how indifferent and merciless all banks are towards any customer who has the misfortune to be in debt : that was more or less all . |
| 2 | Lamb — who had the satisfaction to be batting at the end — responded , allegedly , by throwing the legal papers in the bin ! |
| 3 | It was an impressive political statement that the electors had elected someone who had the right to be emperor . |
| 4 | Unlike Glenn Gould — in many matters one of Karajan 's great soul-mates — Karajan did not abandon the concert-giving habit ; but , like Gould , he did unashamedly embrace recording technology to the full , the first conductor to do so in the wake of Stokowski , that would-be musico-technological pioneer who had the misfortune to be born thirty years too soon . |
| 5 | All of us as women have the right and and the ability to give birth , that is if we can , there 's nothing , er , medically wrong with us but then added to that there are those who have the ability to be good mothers , un unfortunately I do n't happen to fall into that category . |
| 6 | Life is not easy for any of us , and despite what people think can be hard for those of us who have the luck to be well endowed with this world 's goods . |
| 7 | " This Meeting , with every feeling of humanity for the distressed Sufferers , who have the misfortune to be shipwrecked on the coast of this Island , have to regret that numbers of the Country prople , shaking off all fear of God , or regard to the laws , are in the constant practice against every rule of Christian charity , or hospitality , of resorting in numbers to the shores , where strangers have the Misfortune of being shipwrecked , and that for the sole purpose of plunder ; which practice this Meeting hold in the greatest abhorrence , and now declare their disapprobation of ; and in order , as much as possible , to remedy this evil , this Meeting not only collectively , but individually , pledge themselves to use their utmost exertions , not only for the preservation of the property of the individuals , who may have the Misfortune to be wrecked on these coasts , but also for bringing to condign punishment all and every such persons as may be found plundering from wrecks : " |