Example sentences of "having [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | By having each and every one of them involved , you can not only tap their expertise but also get their commitment to tackling a problem that affects the entire company . |
| 2 | Several of these bits may be set in an instruction , in which case all the specified functions are carried out ; the order in which functions are performed is fixed by having each function assigned to one of four timing points within the basic instruction cycle . |
| 3 | And certainly at the level of or two machines per school we 're not quite in the league of having each child it it 's own cell yet . |
| 4 | But at street level the business slowdown and slump in share prices are having little observable effect . |
| 5 | And so I decided to patronise the famous Café de la Paix ; but having little money and no head for alcohol , limited myself to ordering Perrier before lunch , and sat at a table on the pavement , watching the world go by . |
| 6 | They rarely go hungry , but they are easy prey for aquatic hunters , having little or no mobility with which to defend themselves . |
| 7 | Later , in November 1918 , all internal and foreign trade was nationalised , the latter having little practical significance at that time , since foreign trade had by then all but ceased in those parts of the country in the control of the Soviets . |
| 8 | Amongst these four Kent are alone in having little money . |
| 9 | So I was having little joy with the fine slub yarns in different colours . |
| 10 | In fact , the message is seen as having little news value and is confined to wishes of a happier 1993 . |
| 11 | Having little option , I took my seat beside him . ’ |
| 12 | This will not , however , be achieved as long as IT is regarded as the province of mathematics , science and technology in the curriculum , and English — or other language — teachers are seen as having little part to play . |
| 13 | Design is perceived as having little cultural or social significance . |
| 14 | The appearance of agreement under a standard form agreement masks the reality of the weaker party having little freedom in practice in deciding whether to agree to the standard terms or not . |
| 15 | Fourthly , in some cases elders may be assessed as having little practical consciousness . |
| 16 | Jack , however , was having little joy finding a suitable field for the take-off . |
| 17 | Of course , this is usually so , but I am having little niggling doubts about such a sweeping statement . |
| 18 | The most important social division ran between a dominant class based on the legal ownership of industrial and commercial capital ( and sometimes having little to do with either management or labour ) and a population most of which worked for wages . |
| 19 | Thus in cases in which pigment is produced , the presence of the 3.4-kb transcript correlates completely with the presence of black pigment , consistent with the effects of p mutations on eumelanosomes , while having little or no effect on pheomelanosomes . |
| 20 | She describes them , for example , as ‘ infantilised ’ ; she accepts without question research which purported to show that most women despised each other ( Millett , 1977 , p. 55 ) ; she sees women as having little ‘ self-respect ’ , and as devoting almost all their time and attention to pleasing and flattering men . |
| 21 | The dominant elements were certainly the Soviet ones with the Yenan communists second and the ‘ native communists having little influence . |
| 22 | The Bakufu 's position was fatally flawed by its having little economic or political status as a national government : it wielded political power as proxy for the emperor using only the income from its own lands . |
| 23 | It succeeds , too , as a condemnation of his messianic presentation which inspired in those , having little cause for hope and much for despair , an all-too-ready belief in an easily-obtained and immediate millennium . |
| 24 | By the 1920s and 1930s , not to mention the years after the Second World War , the women formed an ageing group of unmarried women and widows , once more having little in common with the men at work , who by now would be younger and probably married . |
| 25 | His attempts to control prices were having little effect , and in October he abandoned the struggle . |
| 26 | The offering of a free service and the ability to advertise have obviously been key factors having little to do with questions of social class composition , though they have much to do with socialization since law centres perceive their role very differently from those in private practice . |
| 27 | Until very recently , it was usually the case that the ownership of a house in which a married couple lived was held by the husband , the woman having little direct legal claim to it . |
| 28 | Both Simon and Nigel had felt very uncomfortable , and the old bunch had been ‘ cliquey ’ , having little time for these less-affluent and state-educated newcomers . |
| 29 | Apart from the possible financial hardship of retirement many find it hard to adjust to having little to do . |
| 30 | They feel useless being no longer productive workers and yet having little to do at home . |