Example sentences of "[verb] be have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 2 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 4 | ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others . |
| 5 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 6 | MELVYN BRAGG has been having a busy year . |
| 7 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 8 | The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late . |
| 9 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 10 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
| 11 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 12 | Micro Focus has been had an object-oriented research programme under way since 1989 to explore what it really means to have re-usable code in practice . |
| 13 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 14 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 15 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 16 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 17 | To be employed is to have an ongoing contract that holds you accountable for doing work of a given type for a specified number of hours per week in exchange for payment . |
| 18 | The first thing to do is to have a major component of the reading section to include dyslexia , with erm instruction of trainee teachers , not only in how to recognise the problem , but also how to do something about it , and how to use the education system to bring support for parents and pupils . |
| 19 | Erm , amateur societies just ca n't exist without loyal officers and those officers have shown their loyalty by s standing again and we know the special circumstances appertaining to the , which brings us to the nitty- gritty now erm you said we have , Tracy , five erm perhaps you 'd better read those names out for us and then I think the best thing to do is to have a closed vote , where we give you all a piece of paper on which you state your nomination folded up so nobody else can see we 'll put them in a bag and then we 'll appoint a couple of to count the vote so that we do not the chairman . |
| 20 | Another thing you will have to do is have a BIG AFFAIR . |
| 21 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 22 | As competent , adult readers we are sometimes aware that something we are reading is having a considerable effect upon us . |
| 23 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |
| 24 | The road that they have created I think is having a damaging effect on the team and is making it more difficult for us to get the results . |
| 25 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 26 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 27 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 28 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 29 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 30 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |