Example sentences of "having [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , studies have shown that 90 per cent of boys in the Inner London area admit to having travelled on public transport without a ticket , or to deliberately under-paying ; 82 per cent admit breaking windows of empty houses ; and only a small percentage claim to have committed no offences . |
| 2 | What had happened was that , having marched in straight lines over open flat ground for a while , their paths had taken them close to a pebble . |
| 3 | She works in Bank of Ireland , 85 James ' Street , Dublin , having joined at Clearing Department , Cabinteely in October 1978 and subsequently worked in St. Stephen 's Green branch and in Batch Centre , 34 College Green until her transfer to James ' Street in November 1987 . |
| 4 | He interrogates everyone : a Rouen merchant who amazes him by not having heard of mint sauce , and a canon of Evreux who informs him that in France the men read too much , while the women read next to nothing ( o rarer still Emma Bovary ! ) . |
| 5 | The England and Manchester United captain was named yesterday in his club squad for the Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg against Portsmouth at Old Trafford tonight , a hairline fracture of the leg having healed with remarkable speed . |
| 6 | They may have different areas of expertise and will be able to concentrate on these without having to sit through lengthy periods when colleagues are asking questions about their own area of interest . |
| 7 | Nori was successful in having overturned by legal action or the threat of it a number of government proposals in late 1989 and early 1990 . |
| 8 | Having taught in certain of the medreses of Bursa , he succeeded Molla Fenari in the three positions which that scholar had held , presumably on Molla Fenari 's death in Rajab 834/March-April 3433 . |
| 9 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 10 | Where this range of charts scores is by including all the information on the one chart rather than having to go to other sources of reference . |
| 11 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 12 | The above visual representation of the hierarchical nature of theme-rheme structures is meant to illustrate the point without having to go through complex technical discussions . |
| 13 | There are several reasons why this may be present , but the main one is that it ‘ guarantees ’ that the manufacturer has conformed with EC weight regulations and it enables foods to move easily between EC countries without having to go through lengthy weight checks in the importing country . |
| 14 | Life is hectic , time is precious enough , without having to cope with unwanted visitors staying four and a half hours beyond their welcome . |
| 15 | This convergence may have less to do with ideology than with political ‘ learning ’ and having to cope with unanticipated events . |
| 16 | Managers were having to cope with plural and often competing professional expectations and priorities , in pursuit of which professions were prepared to use their power and resist management initiatives . |
| 17 | The problem is that when Venus is prominent , you 're having to cope with other planetary stresses . |
| 18 | The staff were also worried about his speech , not seeming to take into account the fact that this was the first time he had come out of a Punjabi-speaking environment and was having to cope with new experiences in a foreign language . |
| 19 | Staying in hospital can be a traumatic experience for young children — as well as having to cope with strange hospital routines or unpleasant treatments , they may also be offered unfamiliar foods just at the time when their appetites are likely to be poor and they need encouragement to eat a healthy , balanced diet . |
| 20 | Staff are dedicated to their work and generally regard it as vocational , having to cope with frail and sometimes difficult people in their declining years , and , on occasions , the reality of death . |
| 21 | ‘ We have evidence that once past December wheat growers having to cope with difficult blackgrass populations can lose £100/ha for every month the weed is left unchecked . ’ |
| 22 | If the box is overfull , then the overdrive seals are having to cope with excessive quantities of oil and are not doing so . |
| 23 | In the current business climate an increasing number of organisations are having to cope with reduced promotion opportunities , resulting from contraction or stabilisation of the workforce . |
| 24 | For example , being kept awake by a sufferer who can not sleep having to be continually watchful of someone who may do dangerous things , and having to cope with continual questioning or aggression may become unbearable . |
| 25 | And having looked at identified needs for affordable housing , within again various statements made by the local authorities and compared those with the commitments that are left , in other words the places where they they could reasonably be found , we get some fairly large percentages of affordable housing requirement le on on on the remaining land . |
| 26 | That of course puts a heavy burden on all of us , constrained as we are by having to work in underfunded , hard-pressed organisations pitted against monstrously powerful vested interests , and struggling often against ignorance and indifference at the same time . |
| 27 | This meant having to work in hard labour , alongside her husband and possibly children , in order to support her family . |
| 28 | Having to work from different angles makes it extremely difficult to maintain an even symmetry throughout the design , and it is therefore not surprising that nomadic rugs sometimes contain motifs of slightly varying sizes ; the fact that so many are perfectly balanced and symmetrical is a glowing testament to the weavers ' skill . |
| 29 | Of the major non-Slavic groups , the Baltic nations had a particularly distinctive inheritance , having come under strong German , Polish and Swedish influence from early medieval times . |
| 30 | The plan was abandoned shortly afterwards , however , having come under heavy criticism . |