Example sentences of "[adv] having [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 2 | Thus having passed the appropriate sentence , he then , through the atoning work of Christ , stands in the sinner 's place and stead . |
| 3 | Once the first stage had used up its fuel you leave it behind so you 're not having to push the empty casing . |
| 4 | So he just kicked himself for not having made the obvious connection . ’ |
| 5 | She shrugged and looked away , over to where Hector was investigating a hole in the base of the stable wall , not having noticed the new arrival . |
| 6 | Moreover , he assesses such people ( in his book The Nightmare , 1985 ) as being ‘ markedly open and defenceless , not having developed the psychological protection most people have … they have thin boundaries ( between conscious and unconscious states ) and let things through . ’ |
| 7 | The more computer power is available , the faster business can be transacted , and the heavier become the competitive penalties for not having to hand the right information about your business and its environment . |
| 8 | TASS argued that they had nothing to withdraw , not having taken the original decision to strike . |
| 9 | An earnout will provide a purchaser with a cash flow advantage in not having to pay the extra consideration upfront . |
| 10 | He left Cambridge the following year , not having sat the mathematical tripos because of his delicate health , and became a barrister of the Inner Temple . |
| 11 | Since the relevant ones will be concentrated in one area of the inverted tree they can be quickly located by moving from the root downwards and along the correct branches , without ever having to search the whole database . |
| 12 | The harshness of those living-conditions , with the special emphasis on working-class housewives having to feed , clothe and generally look after a large family , was reflected by the lower standards of living , the deprivations all around , widespread poverty , with few families ever having experienced the beneficial effects of a holiday in the country or at the sea-side . |
| 13 | My peg top evening gown — my beautiful cerise lace — I could end up having to rethink the whole collection ! ’ |
| 14 | IT 'S far from roses all the way here , if only because other members of the family are experiencing difficulties and you end up having to bear the emotional brunt of it all . |
| 15 | There came a day , said Freud , the sons in frustration , rose up against the primal father , murdered him , ate him , in a grisly act of cannibalism , raped the mothers and sisters , and then having gratified the positive side of , of the negative side of their ambivalence , about the primal father , their hate for him , their desire to supplant him , and so on , were left with the positive side unsatisfied . |
| 16 | A well-known tortoise , named Jonathan , lives in the governor 's garden on St Helena Island and was once famous for allegedly having seen the exiled Napoleon there . |
| 17 | Norman Lamont got a lot of stick for allegedly having identified the green shoots of recovery somewhat prematurely . |
| 18 | ‘ Clothes make man ’ said the German proverb , and no age was more aware of it than one in which social mobility could actually place numerous people into the historically novel situation of playing new ( and superior ) social roles and therefore having to wear the appropriate costumes . |