Example sentences of "having had the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Watt had thought about moving steam engines , having had the idea suggested to him by various people . |
| 2 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 3 | There seemed to be no reason why you should n't , and to decide not to , after having had the thought , seemed to indicate a lack of real caritas . |
| 4 | Having had the benefit of extensive discussions with many of our large shareholders it became clear that the proposals in their entirety did not have support although many features won warm approval . ’ |
| 5 | However , having had the benefit of the pilot study , it was possible to identify specific areas that restrict my practice and so limit my effectiveness : |
| 6 | I should first like to express again the Society 's pleasure at having had the benefit of Bedu 's teaching at the Easter Course . |
| 7 | not a chance , he , he never even earned that much money in all his , no but I mean having , having had the income tax done that to you however ridiculous that it is you 've got to do something about it |
| 8 | Having spent a night in accommodation which is the same as the recruits ' and having had the opportunity to talk to some of the recruits in the Sandes Coffee Shop last night , they have an excellent idea about their future career . |
| 9 | Having had the opportunity to settle in a bit and have a look around , I am beginning to get my bearings . |
| 10 | Having had the opportunity through working at a hospice of attending many funerals I have grown used to seeing the shudders and worried looks that pass between grieving family and friends as they struggle to make sense of the words being read . |
| 11 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 12 | Having had the opportunity to discuss the international trade market , my understanding of requirements for market data is as follows : |
| 13 | Having had the discussion between the two parties . |
| 14 | For the strictly limited purpose of deciding whether Ward J. 's decision should be affirmed or reversed , it suffices to say that an appellate court should always be slow to reject a trial judge 's findings of fact , he having had the advantage of seeing and hearing the witnesses , and that it should be even slower to do so if any findings which it would be minded to substitute would lead to the same result . |
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| 16 | Ideally the control task would be one that required some sort of discrimination learning , thus ensuring that both groups came to the test phase having had the experience of learning one previous discrimination problem . |
| 17 | There is now no doubt that those societies who were not represented will deeply regret the step they adopted , for those would-be representatives have missed having had the honour of being at the best gathering ever held in the annals of the deaf and dumb . " |
| 18 | In 1252 the ‘ jurats ’ of Romney Marsh are recorded as having had the power to repair the sea-wall and to control the ditches ‘ from time out of mind ’ . |
| 19 | Having had the pleasure of meeting Willy De Roos several years ago he made a great impression on me and although little is publicised about his achievements , it is a shame that they are not better known . |
| 20 | Having had the pleasure of interviewing Ralph Gibson on the occasion of the publication of his major work ‘ Syntax ’ , for the now defunct ‘ Camera ’ magazine in 1984 , perhaps this review should begin as per the forward of L'Histoire de France : ‘ Dear Ralph Gibson ’ . |
| 21 | The second present was a book toke ) a ‘ thank you ’ for having had the pleasure of being President of the Medau Society . |
| 22 | Oh , a at nineteen forty eight they split up the electric supply and the three was nationalized and erm it , it just went out of the control of the local councils , it was government controlled then and there was a distinct possibility that the transport section would be sold off to private enterprise and the only private enterprise that was capable of taking over then was the Eastern Counties but erm I think the , the erm local council having had the transport under their wing for so many years , fought off that erm feeling and erm they kept with it and er , of course all the accountancy went to the Borough Treasurer and the certain members of clerks from the Borough Treasurers , which was at in those days , er seconded on to transport accounts . |
| 23 | Having had the misfortune to have good rail links , a large aerodrome and to be within easy reach , Aachen was a regular target for Allied bombing raids , so that much of it is recent . |
| 24 | He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’ |
| 25 | HAVING had the misfortune to break my ankle , I was discharged from hospital after a three-week stay . |
| 26 | Okay so they , they know what 's expected of them but they would without having had the practice or the experience |
| 27 | I am making good progress — slow but sure — and have now graduated on to walking sticks , although I feel very wobbly on these having had the crutches for a month . |
| 28 | IN A LONG apologia for having had the temerity to undertake a psycho-biography of Mrs Thatcher , Leo Abse denies that his book is a personal attack on her , but agrees that it may have some admonitory function in warning people not to acquiesce too readily in the disposition of someone who would appear , on his argument , to be gravely unbalanced . |
| 29 | Hephaestus was crippled and ugly , having had the temerity to interfere in a quarrel between his tempestuous parents , and been flung from Olympus to the Island of Lemnos below for his pains . |
| 30 | It is a wonderful experience to sit with him in the quiet peacefulness of his home , the table cleared ( in addition to having had the house duly cleaned by his ‘ daily ’ ) to make room for the Sabbath candles , its bread and wine . |