Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] having [adv] " in BNC.

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1 They both express the same , slightly ironic , delight in the munificence of old houses : Cobbett , when walking through the Duke of Buckingham 's park , remarks in a manner that anticipates Harold Skimpole 's : ‘ I , like POPE 'S cock in the farm-yard , could not help thanking the DUKE and DUCHESS for having generously made such ample provision for our pleasure .
2 DUP thus secured a seat after having only .7 of a quota of first preference votes .
3 The net result of having so many favoured people around was that tickets for the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets were obviously rationed , and we had to be content with second league fixtures of circus and puppet shows to fill any gaps in the programme .
4 A few years later , however , the distant future showed every indication of having already arrived when these nagging anxieties grabbed the headlines around the large numbers of recruits who had been found unfit for service in the Boer War , and in spite of the half-hearted reassurances of the Physical Deterioration Committee of 1904 fears of racial deterioration were rampant .
5 The Argentine RU seems to be the only one which can allow itself the luxury of having half a team of top internationals watching the game ’ .
6 It was argued that the rule of having only Yorkshire-born players was the perfect way of keeping out the non-whites .
7 The aim , in advertising , promotion and in providing visitor attractions at Edinburgh , should not merely be to increase visitor numbers ( a visit on a hot weekend in June will demonstrate the negative aspects of having too many people in our 60 acres of public space ) .
8 In his memorandum Aziz accused Kuwait of having deliberately pursued policies aimed at weakening Iraq during the latter 's eight-year war with Iran .
9 Second , what is the effect of having imperfectly competitive permit markets ?
10 It should not be felt that selling overseas is such a specialist and complex area that the uninitiated must for ever be excluded , or that membership can only be purchased at the expense of having very costly specialist services .
11 The rich no longer deserve to be rich , or the poor to be poor : there is no merit in having enough money : there is little pleasure in having too little money .
12 It 's easier sometimes not to achieve and just to settle for family life than it is to achieve and to set your occupational sights quite high and then to have to face the terrible and fight of having both a job and children .
13 As 91.4 per cent of records will be located in their home buckets , the advantage of having relatively few synonyms outweighs the disadvantage of there being some long chains .
14 Virtually every house on the coast was built from stout oak planks , each timber bearing unmistakable signs of having once formed part of a wooden ship .
15 There was a rather pleasant man , called Chaudhry , who showed worrying signs of having actually gone to Oxford .
16 Example of external benefits attributed to keeping open existing pits are the preservation of mining communities and the benefits to future generations of having cheaply worked coal seams left to them .
17 Opposition leaders accused the authorities of having unilaterally ceased consultations with them on the bill , and were also seeking an undertaking that the elections would go ahead as scheduled .
18 The rest of the afternoon we spent shopping and taking in the experience of having so many shops and stalls under one roof There were all types to browse in from clothes , stationery , crafts and food as well as many others .
19 After all , he was later to applaud Hardy 's poetry for having precisely , ‘ the insides ’ .
20 I should think it is working the way of bringing back the workhouse through having too much economy . ’
21 The squeeze was on from the start , Mark Bowen clearing off the line in the fourth minute and again in the 84th from Terry Hurlock 's drive as Norwich maintained a startling statistic of having yet to concede an away goal .
22 Even these unemployed young people contrast with their counterparts in the inner-city areas in having potentially marketable skills and qualifications .
23 How will other members of society benefit from having expensively financed their being there ?
24 Wales were convinced that they were one up on Scotland in having already experienced Joel Dume in their England match , while the Sassenachs ' top brass reckoned Scotland would be at a definite disadvantage for the first 20 minutes .
25 Now there is no bar to having more than one particle in each state .
26 ‘ So , ’ he said , smiling in obvious delight at having so easily disarmed her .
27 Colchester RGS have set a magnificent example to the maintained sector by having over a hundred fixtures at all levels and by their enterprise in fulfilling 11 first XI matches before the examination period , including an Easter tour .
28 Tom McCool , SCOTVEC 's Chief Executive , had already written to ask SED to convene a meeting to consider the implications of having both SCOTVEC and SEB modules/short courses available in schools and colleges .
29 The American who won the women 's 100 metres gold came within two days of having both feet amputated , she revealed yesterday .
30 But what is the point of having both together ?
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