Example sentences of "having [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In I had nine people to call , had evokes the state of having the people on one 's list and is thus expressive of a concrete obligation to call them . |
| 2 | I want us to have our own foreign policy , and that means having the means to carry it out . |
| 3 | Defences which may be available include : an Act of God ; the plaintiff 's consent ; or where the odour nuisance is a result of the act of a trespasser and the owner or occupier is ignorant of the nuisance , not having the means of knowing of the nuisance in time to prevent or abate its effect . |
| 4 | ‘ And you were prepared to let Fairfax-Vane go to prison despite having the means to prevent it . |
| 5 | Other issues with which I shall not detain the House but which have been mentioned by other hon. Members include the design of motor vehicles , the admirable Which ? survey , the question of insurance and rewarding those who take adequate precautions to secure their vehicles by having the means to immobilise them in case of theft , safety improvements and cases such as those in Swansea , where , for example , the local authority has now put attendants in several of the key car parks . |
| 6 | I 'm having the staff of our office there check every hotel . |
| 7 | That was quite a nice dinner you ordered , though you need n't have been quite so Spartan — I 'm glad to see you 've allowed us some sugar with these raspberries — I appreciated your nuance of not having the fish just grilled . |
| 8 | But Crosby 's move for Wilson has been put on ice while Southampton dither over whether to come back in for Armstrong after having a £750,000 bid rejected . |
| 9 | I 've no idea I 'm just having a butchers . |
| 10 | Having a butchers ay |
| 11 | Having a butchers ! |
| 12 | I once went to the trouble of having a pair made in the finest white doeskin but fortunately I have now outgrown such extravagances in much the same way that I have outgrown the petty conversations and banal posturings of those who frequent literary gatherings or , worse , television studio canteens . |
| 13 | This owl butterfly ( opposite ) uses a different deflection device , having a pair of small eye-spots near the trailing edge of its wings . |
| 14 | And I miss having a pair of arms round me . |
| 15 | I find out about these release sites in various ways : through friends or volunteers or the farming parents of children I had lectured to , who have expressed an interest in having a pair and have suitable land . |
| 16 | Even now I feel I must modify this by saying that technically I am a brilliant driver , handicapped only by having a 100mph temperament coupled with 5mph eyesight . |
| 17 | LINFIELD are pondering a fresh move for Ballymena United striker Neil Candlish after having a £20,000 bid rejected by the Braid club last week . |
| 18 | We have assumed in the above that the operation code field is fixed in length , but we may be able to make better use of the instruction length by having a variable.length operation code field . |
| 19 | It should be noted however that the latter recently succeeded in having a 7% resale royalty provision dropped from the federal Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 . |
| 20 | you ca n't beat having a bob or two in the bank can ya ? |
| 21 | We are also at an advantage in having a Data Protection Act , which is more use in practice than a vague bill of rights . |
| 22 | Le Bugue is a place you 've probably never heard of before now : it 's in France , and they 're having a 16ft wide 6ft tall ramp along with a 12ft wide 4ft tall mini being constructed at a Summer Camp , along with some street ramps and handrails . |
| 23 | At all events it will be thicker than the existing glass , and will improve the sound insulation quality of the door , in spite of not having a 75mm space between the two panes . |
| 24 | There may be a case for replacing her with someone else later , having a series of nurses rather than a permanent one , in case she becomes overemotionally involved . |
| 25 | Lastly , positively the last Reading gossip … après gig , KINKY MACHINE got goaded by THE WONDER STUFF into having a series of marathon challenges which involved one roadie eating 70 pickled onions in an hour . |
| 26 | Both the magnetic and capacitive systems work on having a series of wire grids embedded in the baseboard of the tablet . |
| 27 | Both systems work on having a series of wire grids embedded in the baseboard of the tablet . |
| 28 | There is more money to be made by trying to increase the efficiency and flexibility of the whole system than there is through having a series of adversarial breaks in the chain . |
| 29 | They are having a series on professional women at work . |
| 30 | This year , I have been having a series of informal discussions with Church leaders , the voluntary sector , leading members of the police , probation and prison services , magistrates and others to consider what we can do to get at the roots of criminality . |