Example sentences of "having some " in BNC.

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1 But the church 's clerics still took offence , particularly at the point that local people should be encouraged to take an interest in the schools by having some financial responsibility for them through local government .
2 Having some 1979 data on custody practices and prisoner interviews he sought to replicate the study in 1986/7 to assess the influence of the legislation on police practice .
3 Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity .
4 I remember having some really interesting discussions with him when we 'd go and see a band somewhere .
5 He was having some trouble with one section .
6 We talked about having some fun with cars at a time when I was beginning to think the two were no longer synonymous .
7 I remember having some trouble not laughing during that scene .
8 ‘ I suppose it 's possible she could be having some sort of psychological block .
9 Despite having some of the largest base-metal mines in Europe , Ireland has collected only £5 million in mining royalties , which have typically run at between five and nine per cent of profits since 1970 .
10 They were the people who were already ‘ suffering greatly from having some 57,000 boat people there and more and more and more would come when the season came for them to leave Vietnam . ’
11 Something more of the requisite independence could be achieved by Berkeley 's doctrine that ideas which are not subject to our own will are produced in us by God : the independence of a real thing , its having some continuity despite interrupted perception of it , could be explained in terms of a continued readiness on God 's part to excite the requisite ideas in us at suitable moments .
12 For Hampshire he had a very successful first full season , taking 119 wickets at only 13 in 1974 , and having some good days in limited-overs cricket as well .
13 She was a great roper-inner , and Jane , having some land , became a prime target .
14 But I 'm bound to say that his recent experience at Barnes may be having some effect . ’
15 Could n't Mr Hall just be having some kind of bad day ?
16 Although physicists are having some difficulty in deciding what are the fundamental particles of which matter and energy are composed , they seem to agree that there are fundamental particles .
17 ‘ It goes towards having some decent grub at Christmas . ’
18 Printing banknotes is one area where Britain leads the world , with De La Rue having some 60 p.c. of the global banknote business and around half the market in printing passports .
19 But all games are dependent on the players having some degree of understanding of the concepts involved .
20 In practice , many species are recognized by having some peculiarity of shape , behaviour , plumage , colour and so on , that reliably set them apart from all other similar species .
21 Although OSS was no more , the idea of having some form of intelligence agency to operate abroad had taken root and only a few months later Truman changed his mind .
22 Dr. Saxby tells me you 're having some discomfort , and a smaller dosage will help .
23 There is a strong connection between low-weight births and the incidence of mental handicap , with half of the babies weighing less than 1,500 grams having some form of damage due to factors such as oxygen starvation or low blood sugar .
24 Firstly , it seems to have been well established at the time that Darrel was having some sort of incestuous relationship with his sister , a woman several years younger but only slightly less wayward than her brother .
25 Officialdom does care , and is having some success in ensuring that a better informed management cares and will shoulder its responsibilities in ways appropriate to the 21st century .
26 Criticisms like those levelled during the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science are having some effect .
27 If the infection is passed on by the mother , the baby has a 75 per cent chance of having some neurological disorder , ranging from deafness and blindness to spastic paralysis .
28 A glimpse of the apprentice practising the basic technique of architectural drawing comes in A Laodicean ( 1881 ) , singled out by Hardy himself as having some biographical significance .
29 ‘ I 'm having some new treatment for my migraine attacks , ’ she told them , accepting a second cup of tea .
30 The couple are still close friends and Kaye enjoys having some distance between them .
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