Example sentences of "[be] having [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're having to make a conscious effort to be detached , are n't you ? |
| 2 | The girls are having to use the public lavatory on the corner and they do n't like it . ’ |
| 3 | It is evident , however , that the police are overstretched and are having to fight the rising tide of car crime with insufficient officers and with one hand tied behind their backs . |
| 4 | My grown-up children are on their way to see me , and in order to do so are having to travel a two-hour journey on the motorway . |
| 5 | They will have to provide the chauffeurs with somewhere to sleep and are having to build an extra wing . |
| 6 | Manufacturers in energy-intensive industries complain that the tax will make their products less competitive ; the petrochemical industries say they are having to bear an unfair share of the burden of reducing the deficit . |
| 7 | So the council were faced were having to take a legal action because there was a whole claims that because the land was so old , nobody knew who technically owned it and it was n't registered as we owning it until nineteen sixty six , there was legal disputes about that . |
| 8 | Earlier generations had already noticed the odd consequences which followed from Aristotle 's having seen the human condition as unquestionably that of an Athenian gentleman , and Kant 's having seen it as that of a Prussian bourgeois . |
| 9 | oh it 's not my type mm Penny 's having to wait a long while for her birthday is n't she ? , |
| 10 | And when she 's go , when she 's having having a good time she ta , she 's like one of the nurses you know , she helps them out but when she 's on her downer she 'll sit there and she wo n't do anything |
| 11 | Sentences with subjects having definite referents , such as ( 80 ) , assert the definite referent 's having performed the infinitival event based on the fact that perception of this event took place , and , as stated above , this means that the definite referent 's having performed this action must be significant enough to be stated as a fact ( known through the perceptual event having taken place ) . |
| 12 | Some , like Ford and Vauxhall , have been able to respond quickly but Rover , which has a US airbag only on the top of the range 800 series , is having to undertake a major engineering programme to make them available throughout the range during the next year . |
| 13 | The adolescent is emerging from the small and comparatively cushioned world to which he has belonged and is having to face a great deal of pressure from many different relationships . |
| 14 | The probe problem is having had a big initial launch the reality is that we 're now going to drip feed the P R throughout the year and there are several good stories coming up which I 'm not gon na tell you er that we hope the , the national and local press will pick up on . |
| 15 | A RECENTLY opened saleroom is having to introduce an extra auction this week to cope with demand . |
| 16 | The only aspect of the lessons which I can really remember was having to learn a substantial number of Euclid 's theorems on geometry . |
| 17 | She caught him again on the way back between oven and table , and sank herself into him once more , but after a moment became conscious that he was having to make a considerable effort to hold the hot saucepan away from her at arm 's length . |