Example sentences of "having a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | An elegant example of this is La Bourgoise d'Orliens , " The townswoman of Orléans " , in which the husband , a merchant , suspecting his wife of having a clerk as a lover ( which she has ) tests her by pretending to go away but returning in the guise of a clerk . |
| 32 | Somebody erm said they were going to , and it was n't me so it was one of you three , said they were going to check if the ball was having a speaker this year . |
| 33 | Erm and also check whether any of the college dinners this term or year , next term whatever , are going to be having a speaker . |
| 34 | But , of course , having a system of beliefs or attitudes also conditions the way we look at the world ; what we actually see . |
| 35 | Observing behaviour is greatly aided by having a system of some kind to follow . |
| 36 | Having a system is the only way to have a successful garden . |
| 37 | In the following discussion , we shall be making use of Hart 's ( 1969 ) distinction between the general justifications ( or ‘ general justifying aims ’ ) put forward for having a system of punishment , and the principles of distribution which it is claimed should determine how severe the punishment of individual offenders should be . |
| 38 | This in turn means that , while general deterrence might well form the basis of a plausible general justification for having a system of punishment , it is more difficult to argue that the amount of punishment imposed by our system is justifiable by deterrent considerations . |
| 39 | The general justification for having a system of punishment must therefore be forward-looking and primarily reductivist : based on the claim that punishment does something to reduce the incidence of crime , and thereby prevents the diminution of some other people 's positive freedom . |
| 40 | Likewise , by efficient data storage the user benefits from having a system that gives him relevant information quickly . |
| 41 | However , there is an advantage in having a system which can check word identification to see if the word which we have identified is consistent with context , and it is this checking procedure which Fischler and Bloom claim is causing the inhibition effects which they have demonstrated . |
| 42 | There is no point in having a system which keeps on playing up ; much better not to have one at all . |
| 43 | Because of the way that erm the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years , to a system where mixed ability was introduced year by year from the first to the third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school — one lot of pupils in their streamed classes , and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes — and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and in the mixed ability classes . |
| 44 | Because of the way that the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years to a system where mixed ability is introduced year by year from the first to third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school , one lot of pupils in their streamed classes and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes , and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and the mixed ability classes . |
| 45 | He understandably carries the burden of expectancy in the United States , being winner of two of his last five tournaments and , in one of those he did not win , having a course record 63 in last week 's Players ' Championship . |
| 46 | Certainly mention of Cailliet and Bédé brings back Eliot to a familiar uniting of primitive and urban as , after stating that ‘ I myself would like an audience which could neither read nor write ’ , he recalls Sweeney Agonistes ( published in book form in December 1932 ) and speaks of the poet as ‘ something of a popular entertainer … having a part to play in society as worthy as that of the music-hall comedian ’ . |
| 47 | To have to submit to having a part of one 's body removed while one slept was going to be bad . |
| 48 | It allows the process to start , often with the dying person having a part to play . |
| 49 | We were therefore very fortunate in having a part in the years following Alec Clegg 's appointment as Chief Education Officer . |
| 50 | If he ca n't , Angelica 's thinking , it 's probably going to mean the expense of having a part of the terrace decking taken up and relaid . |
| 51 | Something in me recoiled from the idea of having a part of myself torn away by force , even if it did n't hurt . |
| 52 | And Galashiels being placed where it was on the between four counties , th you had Berwickshire , Peebleshire , Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire all having a part . |
| 53 | The criteria included having a workplace policy on smoking , encouraging staff to take more exercise and ensuring that the staff restaurant offers a healthy food choice . |
| 54 | A personal stereo ( Walkman ) or , possibly , a battery-operated radio having a headphone socket is needed — this will be used as the source of speech or music . |
| 55 | So , the , erm yah , I 'd like to do , I mean , the notion of having a tabloid here that 's , you know , like a hip tabloid , like mid . |
| 56 | It was converted for parachuting by having a rail bolted along the fuselage on to which the rings at the end of the static lines were fixed by a dog-lead clip . |
| 57 | Among the peoples of the north the Yakuts were unique in having a way of life based upon cattle and horses which , like their Turkic language , betrayed their origins in the steppes of Mongolia . |
| 58 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 59 | I was that busy , y'know , getting up , going out to score , having a toot , going out again to score , that I did n't even realise what was going on . |
| 60 | That was about three weeks in bed , having a toot to kill the pain . |