Example sentences of "[prep] have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food service design consultant , however , is a professional man who has been trained to be a designer after having gained a varied experience in the food service industry . |
| 2 | ‘ He is still vertical , ’ Roxburgh observed after having had a significant portion of his squad put on horizontal hold . |
| 3 | And if you change your mind after having taken a personal pension , you can switch back into SERPS ; or , if the scheme rules allow it , you can transfer your payments into a company contracted-out scheme . |
| 4 | Two went so far as to offer to reduce the metered fare after having taken a wrong turn in error . |
| 5 | Last but by no means least , the Human Rights Sub-Committee under the chairmanship of has done an enormous amount of work on behalf of lawyers in countries where the rule of law remains somewhere over the rainbow . |
| 6 | Despite having come a close second to every junior side in the county at least once over the years , as the senior side in the tournament it is hardly surprising that Athletico should have done remarkably well . |
| 7 | This miraculous event caused Massaccio immediately to repent his past life , and he became a Benedictine monk , dying at a great age with the reputation of having led a saintly life in his chosen monastery . |
| 8 | The " feeling of knowing " offered either when drunk , drugged , drowsy or asleep is no reliable indication of having achieved a real solution to a problem ; there are unfortunately no short cuts in that direction ! |
| 9 | The psychological structure for the talker requires , broadly speaking , two kinds of pretence : ( 1 ) an emotional one of having made a momentous decision and ( 2 ) a fictitious factual background . |
| 10 | Later in the session Noell had to defend himself against accusations of having made an illicit profit out of transporting captured Irish , Scottish , and English Royalist soldiers , political prisoners , and convicted criminals to Barbados ; he denied not the facts of such transportation but the allegations of cruelty and profiteering arising therefrom . |
| 11 | But the Prime Minister also sought to reject the charge of having created a selfish society . |
| 12 | Nijazi Beqa and his co-defendants were accused of having joined an illegal organization , of having distributed ‘ hostile propaganda materials ’ and of organizing petitions of a ‘ hostile ’ nature to officials in and outside Yugoslavia . |
| 13 | South Africa , for their part , dignified in defeat , can bask in the afterglow of their second coming , content in the knowledge of having bridged a great divide . |
| 14 | Serious rioting broke out in Los Angeles on April 29 after four white officers of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) were unexpectedly acquitted of having assaulted a black motorist , Rodney King , in March 1991 . |
| 15 | In October Barnard was accused in court of having assassinated a prominent ANC activist , David Webster , in May 1989 [ see pp. 36647 ; 37033 ] . |
| 16 | In the latter , pupils succeed or ‘ pass ’ if they reach certain levels of competence : they are expected to give evidence of having reached a particular level of performance regardless of how they stand in relation to their peers . |
| 17 | The Sunday Citizen explained his enthusiasm for the Profumo affair because of a long-cherished personal grudge against Profumo and of having unearthed a juicy scandal by snooping that would have done credit to a divorce detective . |
| 18 | I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs . |
| 19 | LABOUR last night accused the Conservatives of having to do an embarrassing U-turn over home ownership . |
| 20 | ‘ But you see , since I spoke to her , we have had another witness 's account of having seen a yellow Datsun in the Goring area . |
| 21 | She managed to escape to the kitchen on the pretext of having seen an old friend heading in that direction . |
| 22 | Yet the sense of having missed a once-on-a-lifetime boat remains acute . |
| 23 | For many , the sense of having to adopt a preferred version of practice accentuated the dilemmas which are always part of everyday teaching . |
| 24 | The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time . |
| 25 | Such a consideration raises the prospect of having to run a surplus budget at the same time as cutting taxes . |
| 26 | This is a matter of having set an early direction against a clear vision of the future . |
| 27 | It makes sure that the family of the deceased director receive fair payment for his or her shares , which saves them from the problem of having to find an alternative buyer . |
| 28 | If that commitment is not made , the Government stand condemned of having betrayed a whole generation of the poorest people in our society by taking away their only means of escaping from poverty , access to education opportunity . |
| 29 | Apparently uncertain as to camera angles , Witchell and the others frequently gave the impression of having spotted a lesbian stalking across the floor . |
| 30 | When it was revealed that the 14 candidates polling the least votes and thus threatened with exclusion from the central committee included such notables as Abalkin , Shevardnadze , Ryzhkov , Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov and CPSU international department head Valentin Falin , Gorbachev intervened with a proposal that they too should be deemed elected by virtue of having won a legitimate majority , this being accepted by the congress . |