Example sentences of "had the [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the conference of the Institute of Housing at Harrogate in 1985 , Mr. Banham praised the authority of the city of which I had the privilege to be leader , describing it as the most efficient authority in Britain . |
| 2 | From all accounts he did n't sound as if he had the spunk to be a murderer . |
| 3 | ‘ Big Black had the opportunity to be on several major labels . |
| 4 | They could claim that they never had the opportunity to be successful whereas those who filled the top jobs owed their position to their relatives , friends and the advantages of birth . |
| 5 | Despite that , Martha and I had a wonderful wedding , and were very grateful that when other families were separated , we had the opportunity to be together . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think it would be different if we had the opportunity to be together every night ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's true that I had the opportunity to be alone in the office , and we both know that I was angry and said a lot of things in the heat of the moment … but would I really be this vindictive ? ’ |
| 8 | He said that I had the ability to be not only Britain 's top sprinter but also number one in Europe . |
| 9 | Had the fortune to be honoured whilst living |
| 10 | And also he doubted whether she had the intelligence to be so devious . |
| 11 | But being a Tory politician , he still had the gall to be interviewed on TV and claim credit for his actions . |
| 12 | He took me straight to the Rembrandt and talked about it , without lowering his voice , and I had the smallness to be embarrassed because some other people there stared at us . |
| 13 | Not that one man had the courage to be evil . |
| 14 | Mr Emig questioned whether the urine samples examined were those actually given ; whether certain people present at the doping test had the right to be there and why the transportation of the samples had taken so long — five days , including three days at Cologne airport . |
| 15 | But nobody had the right to be that nasty ; not even if his backside was black and blue . |
| 16 | In more extreme manner we might wish to register our displeasure at the felling of a row of fine trees for a road-widening project by saying that they had the right to be left in peace . |
| 17 | This document proclaimed to the people of Wales that members of a society with mental handicap had a right to the same services as everyone else , had the right to be treated as individuals , and might need special assistance to make this possible . |
| 18 | Furthermore , modernism created a considerable degree of misery and frustration by insisting that only one particular dominant style had the right to be considered the appropriate form for the expression of socialism . |
| 19 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 20 | Originally the Housing Bill allowed the Secretary of State to impose HATs against the wishes of tenants who simply had the right to be informed , but the opposition to this proposal was widespread and sustained . |
| 21 | No man had the right to be that handsome . |
| 22 | It was an impressive political statement that the electors had elected someone who had the right to be emperor . |
| 23 | As Dr Digby has pointed out : " That a freeborn Englishman had the right to be relieved in his own home and should not be imprisoned in a workhouse was to be a recurrent theme in East Anglian popular protest . " |
| 24 | Lamb — who had the satisfaction to be batting at the end — responded , allegedly , by throwing the legal papers in the bin ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had the misfortune to be a great goalkeeper in an age of great goalkeepers ; Gordon Banks , Peter Shilton and Ray Clemence , to name but three . |
| 27 | Biggles — we named him that because of his flying , or should I say crashing , antics — had the misfortune to be one of Barny 's babies . |
| 28 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 29 | With Guinness , as everyone knows , familiarity breeds content , Is it not somewhat sad , then , that the great Jonathan Swift , Dean of St Patrick 's Cathedral , Dublin and author of Gulliver 's Travels , who was familiar with stout , had the misfortune to be born too soon in history and was therefore denied the contentment of a glass of Guinness ? |
| 30 | If any person had the authority to be in the vicinity he would be wearing a high visibility vest , as laid down in the Railway Regulations , it would be madness not to do so . |