Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The articles are on public record and the purchaser runs the risk of a disgruntled shareholder seeking to have the sale set aside if its consent was not obtained . |
| 2 | Perched on a Jean-Michel Franck chair from the Forties is an elderly , very grand , very blonde Frenchwoman waiting to have her photograph taken . |
| 3 | An action purporting to have been commenced against a person who is dead at its commencement is treated as if it had been commenced against his estate , whether or not a grant of representation had been issued at its commencement ( Ord 5 , r 8(3) ) . |
| 4 | Breach of this provision would normally lead to expulsion , if only to pre-empt the possibility of a creditor seeking to have a receiver appointed . |
| 5 | The truth is that the seeds of disaster were sown early on : THE Duchess spent far too much of her marriage wanting to have fun . |
| 6 | How would you feel if I told you there was a girl going to have a child of mine — some other girl , some stranger ? |
| 7 | Three percent are classed as ineducable and either stay at home with their families or are placed in welfare institutions — parents wishing to have teaching for these children have to pay privately . |
| 8 | The percentage admitting to have tried at least one type of drug has risen from 21.4pc in 1990 to 36.6pc this year . |
| 9 | We 'd be in the pub planning to have a couple more pints and he 'd always want to go back and rehearse again , ’ says Rigby . |
| 10 | Combat is competitive , with the opposing planes appearing to have more ‘ Artificial Intelligence ’ than normal — eg using counter measures against your missiles etc , but again these aircraft do not seem to have their own ‘ character ’ . |
| 11 | The 63 made its debut at the Dutch Grand Prix , driven by John Miles , Lotus 's regular drivers Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt refusing to have anything to do with it . |
| 12 | She said : ‘ After three years training to have a race taken away through no fault of my own was devastating . |
| 13 | A headstone was erected by local admirers and many years later , when Cumnock required a new burial ground , the intended disgrace was completely reversed by the people of the town deciding to have the ground around and including the minister 's grave consecrated as their new cemetery . |
| 14 | With the European Community continuing to have a major impact on the key corporate tax planning issues associated with operations in mainland Europe , and with the wide divergence of personal tax practices and rules globally , keeping abreast of developments is essential for all practitioners . |
| 15 | In addition , many firms claimed to have introduced flexible work agreements , with 71% claiming to have team-working and nearly two-fifths operating to a just-in-time production system . |
| 16 | By the end of the third day Iraqi resistance appeared to be collapsing , with the allies claiming to have taken more than 30,000 prisoners and to have destroyed over 2,000 tanks . |
| 17 | Two Creole girls squeezed oranges in the bows while Baccy shouted at his crew as if they were galley slaves rather than a bunch of half-drunk amateurs trying to have Sunday fun . |
| 18 | For some fifteen years now researchers wishing to have special tabulations compiled from the 1961 census of England and Wales have been refused due to ‘ technical difficulties ’ , and more recently it has been discovered that the machine-readable ten per cent sample of the 1971 census for Scotland is no longer accessible ( Marsh 1980 ; Schürer 1985 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ If it stays like this we ent goin' to have much school at all , ’ and he grinned with pleasure . |
| 20 | So to stay in the frame is Virgin going to have to get in there and |
| 21 | Customers intends to make its disk available to these and any other trader expecting to have significant EC aid in excise duty-suspended goods . |
| 22 | For example , a defendant will presumably not be able to say that he injured the complainant intending to have sexual intercourse with her but she then consented . |
| 23 | Before he could be consulted , writs were issued against the banks by the companies and the shareholders in accordance with resolutions purporting to have been passed by each board of directors consisting of members of the Crawley family , but the receivers of each of the companies did not give their consent . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) Any person claiming to have acquired a title under the Limitation Acts to a registered estate in the land may apply to be registered as proprietor thereof . |
| 25 | A person claiming to have dispossessed another must similarly fulfil both these requirements . |
| 26 | Others seem increasingly to have thronged the court hoping to have a chance of pressing their suit upon the Queen or a courtier . |
| 27 | Six hours travelling to have one hour with Helen . |
| 28 | The ‘ w ’ key happens to be beside the ‘ e ’ key and my finger happening to have struck it once , then struck it once more . |
| 29 | I must choose my words with care as well that my clients and I think that there was very much an effect of people wanting to have a relief road , but also wanting to have it as far away from themselves a as they could have it . |
| 30 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |