Example sentences of "it [prep] having [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |
| 2 | Were naive enough to think they could get through it without having an appraisal system , which I could not believe . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's his birthday , Monsieur Armand , but I 'm afraid we were spoiling it by having a political discussion . ’ |
| 4 | You can see how Dorothy Sayers did it by having the victim being supposed to be actively painting when in fact he was dead , and it is by using some such piece of lateral thinking , making the victim provide the alibi in this instance , that the trick is probably most easily brought off . |
| 5 | in fact erm we only managed to get away with it by having the one |