Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] have " in BNC.

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1 Every diocese that is actively pursuing the problem has appointed a Redundant Churches Uses Committee whose task it is to seek out suitable alternative uses .
2 If you are interested in pursuing the opportunity having read the sales pack , we would be pleased to discuss any questions you may have .
3 Holt ( 1981 ) saw the setting up of LEASIB as the biggest threat to schools , allowing the APU to have more direct impact .
4 Allowing the buyer to have access to the goods , e.g. to paint or repair , will not amount to giving him possession provided the seller retains control over the goods .
5 Both policies are in accordance with the principle of allowing the individual to have control over more of his own income .
6 His allowing the customer to have possession of the car did not amount to a representation that the customer had the right to sell it .
7 The first order prohibited the father from having any contact with the children and prohibited the mother from allowing the father to have contact with the children .
8 The justices made prohibited steps orders ( i ) preventing the father from having any contact with the children and prohibiting the mother from allowing the father to have contact with the children and , ( ii ) prohibiting the mother from having any verbal or personal contact or contact by correspondence with the father , and the father from having any form of contact with the mother .
9 If the above arguments possess cogency , how can control be achieved without review becoming like appeal and without allowing the tribunal to have unlimited power ?
10 The endowment was too limited for an establishment of this extent , and it was evident that the cost of maintaining the infirmary had been seriously underestimated .
11 Ukraine claimed that only 10 per cent should become CIS property , as the cost of building and maintaining the fleet had been borne by Ukraine .
12 Touching the Rock has been featured in the Sunday Telegraph and on BBC Radio 4 's Sunday and In Touch programmes , and is shortly to be the subject of Michael Burke 's 40 Minutes on BBC2 .
13 Is he aware also that during that time scale many seriously ill patients had to be turned away and had to go to other hospitals and that patients using the unit had to be taken out of it prematurely so that others more seriously ill could take their place ?
14 Using the telephone has become a ‘ habit ’ for many people .
15 The number of passengers using the service has grown by just over 16pc this year .
16 Using the wine has its dangers , because bits of pear may drift off , clouding the liquid , which must remain absolutely clear for the sake of the final éclat .
17 It is much more geared to the administration of personnel records than was the bureau system but the experience we gained using the bureau has stood us in good stead for our own system .
18 System builders that Microprocessor Report spoke to at Comdex last month said they did not expect volume production of Intel Corp 's Pentium chip until mid-1993 at best , suggesting the part has slipped another few months .
19 YOUR article suggesting the Queen has now given up on Charles and Diana being the next king and queen of England was fascinating .
20 This results in a situation , represented in " 3 " , where near-shore sediments can actually accumulate , presuming the subsidence to have occurred in that particular environmental belt .
21 In this particular drawing the forecaster has assumed that the future is going to be almost the same as the present ( at least in the characteristics he is depicting ) .
22 It does not matter whether the party accepting the consideration has any apparent benefit thereby or not : it is enough that he accepts it , and that the party giving it does thereby undertake some burden , or lose something which in contemplation of law may be of value .
23 Certainly her main reason for accepting the post had nothing to do with the actual work involved , but the hope that closer acquaintance with him might throw some light on Elise 's baffling death .
24 The integrity of this method of labelling the meal has been well established by incubation of labelled scrambled egg with simulated gastric juice at 37°C and monitoring the rate of release of the label into the liquid phase .
25 Brazil 's faith in debt/equity swaps as a means of easing the burden has been shared by many .
26 Sandor Rado , in an article devoted to the elucidation of manic-depressive disorders , expresses the opinion that ‘ At the bottom of the melancholiac 's profound dread of impoverishment there is really simply a dread of starvation … drinking at the mother 's breast remains the radiant image of unremitting , forgiving love , ’ and he adds that ‘ It is certainly no mere chance that the Madonna nursing the Child has become the emblem of a mighty religion and thereby the emblem of a whole epoch in our Western civilization .
27 Consumers who were asked to nominate three dates for flying claimed the travel firm handling the offer has now told them the dates must be 30 days apart and to three different destinations .
28 the Network member submitting the suggestion has , following approval of the suggestion by the initiating member , contacted the prospective purchaser on behalf of the initiating member in order to ensure that the exclusive sell situation is brought to the attention of the prospective purchaser in an effective and professionally-handled manner .
29 Even when he was resting the horseman had to be on the alert for incidents like this to see that nothing untoward happened to his team .
30 Those opposing the park have recently resurrected an old but powerful paranoia : the ‘ internationalisation ’ of the Amazon ( see BBC WILDLIFE , July 1990 , p483 ) .
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