Example sentences of "was have the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political chaos was having the effect of making Elisabeth and Daniel take stock and order their time on the island particularly efficiently . |
| 2 | I felt I had gained enough experience and as I was having the baby it all tied in together . ’ |
| 3 | And he was having the time of his life . |
| 4 | A bad case of Millerus Liteis , as doctors would say : she was having the ever-present pitcher of beer surgically removed from her hand . |
| 5 | Although this damage was noticeable on most of the buildings in Agra , it was having the most dramatic effect on the Taj Mahal . |
| 6 | Least of all his brothers , who were now watching with ever increasing dismay as Mike , the ‘ broth 's ’ best fighter , was having the rings run round him by the family runt . |
| 7 | The second was having the material produced … |
| 8 | The voice was that of Woil the buzzard who at that same moment was having the door of his cage opened by one of the Men with food . |
| 9 | But Lugh would rise above it all , and would not bother to listen to complaints about who was getting larger helpings of stew , or who was having the most comfortable sleeping quarters , or even who was getting up a bit later than everyone else . |
| 10 | Her limbs felt disconcertingly light , and she was having the greatest difficulty wiping the smile from her face as Luke placed a cushion behind her shoulders . |
| 11 | This took place when Chris was having the final photographs taken of the new replica range . |
| 12 | Is that the one which was having the ? |
| 13 | She struggled to keep a hold of her emotions , but his mouth was having the most detrimental effect on her senses . |
| 14 | Doreen , she realised , was having the first of her private talks with Silas , and she longed to know if the barrier he had raised was about to crumble . |
| 15 | It was having the camera there that made us aware of those questions . |
| 16 | But like , I mean I do n't mind the blood or whatever , and if they were doing little things , I could handle it , but like , like on that op , operation that woman was having the other day and they cut her open and they just pulled |
| 17 | The manufacturer said she was having the problem there . |
| 18 | But like I mean , I do n't mind the blood or whatever , and if they were doing little things I could handle it but like , like on that op op , operation that woman was having the other day and they cut her open and they just pulled . |
| 19 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 20 | Since I knew that I was to have the privilege of addressing this seminar , I have studied with great textual care the document issued by the federation under the title Dear Fellow Citizen because it appeared to me that it was ‘ the brief ’ for what I was to say to you . |
| 21 | For Eliot , though , this concern with ritual was to have the sanction of the anthropologists ' ‘ collective representation ’ , being generated like a dromenon by a group , a chorus across history . |
| 22 | The Forum also insisted that the price of supporting Mr Calfa as Prime Minister was to have the leading Slovak human rights activist , Mr Jan Czarnogursky , as first Deputy Prime Minister . |
| 23 | But it was the final stage in the history of circumcision which was to have the most far-reaching implications for the woman and her role in the society and religion of her people . |
| 24 | There were two lawful ways to demolish the listed chapel — one was to have the building de-listed and the second was to obtain listed building consent for its total demolition which involved seeking representations from six conservation bodies . |
| 25 | However , it was to be the Elsden 's second import which was to have the most effect on the breed . |
| 26 | It was watching others , physically far worse than myself , watching their reactions and often their ‘ progress ’ , that was to have the most profound effect . |
| 27 | Clive 's latest wheeze was to have the students — now referred to as ‘ customers ’ — grade the teachers on a scale of one to ten . |
| 28 | Of all the German patriotic associations that sprang up along the eastern borders in the 1890s it was the Ostmarkenverein , the Eastern Marches Society founded in 1894 , that was to have the most profound impact on German border society . |
| 29 | The basic method of keyboard control used in the original program was to have the train accelerate while the appropriate key was held down , and brake while another key was operated . |
| 30 | His ambition was to have the primary survey of Britain completed during his term of office and the Highlands formed a stumbling block . |