Example sentences of "[conj] having [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Premises are often located near people 's homes and workplaces — customers just ‘ pop in ’ , rather than having to make a special journey |
| 2 | Given their view of the reports as generally descriptive , it is hardly surprising that few teachers felt that having to submit a written report on their school was in any measure a professional threat to them . |
| 3 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 4 | Sheridan , universally unpopular and having made a boorish fool of himself yet again , looked predictably furious . |
| 5 | He remembers competing at the national championships at Cleethorpes in 1923 , when the water lay only three foot deep above a foot of solid mud , and having to touch a mud-smeared wall at each end . |
| 6 | ‘ But for SeaCat the Northern Ireland public would still be travelling in mundane vessels and having to pay a hefty price for the privilege . ’ |
| 7 | Nor do the majority of umpires when having found a satisfactory distance at which to stand . |
| 8 | The Military Intelligence Directorate ( DIM ) was reported by the press in the capital , Caracas , as having foiled a military plot by disaffected elements in the army on Oct. 6 , after which 20 officers were reportedly summoned for questioning . |
| 9 | Some of Mrs Thatcher 's ‘ cheerleaders ’ in the party and popular press see her as having achieved a virtual revolution in British politics , restoring the authority of government , putting the trade unions in their place , taming a greedy and parasitic public sector , and regaining a greater freedom of choice for people in many areas . |
| 10 | The continuing fighting between the two groups was seen as having wrecked a five-point plan to end the violence , agreed at a meeting between Buthelezi and Mandela on March 30 [ see p. 38087 ] . |
| 11 | And Eliot is still the massive figure that must be circumvented if we are to see Virgil as having exerted a powerful influence on our modern poetry in ways more partial , devious and oblique than Eliot allowed for . |
| 12 | Bulgaria 's lack of a democratic tradition and organization was a stumbling block for the main opposition grouping , the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) , which was also seen as striking too negative a tone in its campaign , and as having made a tactical error in spending time campaigning abroad , thus exacerbating the UDF 's image as a party of the intellectual urban elite . |
| 13 | The southern States stand out very strongly as having experienced a Democratic hegemony then , as they did for the entire century beforehand . |
| 14 | Retentionists could not accept that a rapist who breaks into a house , violates his victim , and then kills in order to prevent her giving evidence against him , should be treated as having committed a lesser offence than a burglar who kills in the course of theft . |
| 15 | Rather than creative individuals being taken as the starting-point , the individuals targeted initially were people who had been diagnosed as having had a mental illness , either a severe ( manic-depressive ) form of affective disorder or the milder , but aetiologically related , mood swings of ‘ cyclothymia ’ . |
| 16 | Le Corbusier , with Gropius and Lubetkin , have been described as having had a poetic vision of a future society , organised along egalitarian and emancipatory lines , supported by modern technology . |
| 17 | She twirled a knob of hair and crooned as though having described a trifling scene . |