Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the study shows that those dedicated to breaking through the ‘ glass ceiling ’ on their careers are prepared to sacrifice having a family ; the nine women tested had only five children between them ; the six men had 10 . |
| 2 | Would person 2 be prepared to pay to have the output of the public good increased beyond Q ? |
| 3 | The trouble is that Crawford plays a foredoomed loser , and a lot of people find him far too likeable ; they think it a bit rotten to keep having the laugh on him . ’ |
| 4 | According to delegation sources , Mr Li said that Beijing was fortunate to have had the foresight to crack down on its democracy movement in June , preventing China from being thrown into the ‘ turmoil and confusion ’ now prevailing in Eastern Europe . |
| 5 | According to delegation sources , Mr Li said that Beijing was fortunate to have had the foresight to crack down on its democracy movement in June , preventing China from being thrown into the ‘ turmoil and confusion ’ now prevailing in Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | Everyone is delighted to have had a glimpse of this most elusive and rare of British mammals , and there are smiles all round as we move on . |
| 7 | They were so delighted to have had the opportunity , for training , whatever the personal cost . |
| 8 | Was that er would that have been considered unusual to have had the money to pay that amount in those days ? |
| 9 | But them I 'm lucky to have have a job really . |
| 10 | I think I was very lucky to have had a year in school , and therefore to know that ‘ real ’ teaching was not like School Practice . |
| 11 | An elderly man living alone , for example , was 5.74 times more likely to have had a home-help visit during the previous month than an elderly couple , after allowing for the different average disability levels of the two types of household . |
| 12 | Elderly people living with other , younger people were much less likely to have had a home-help visit in the last month than households containing only elderly people . |
| 13 | The engraving on the outer face of the Mezine example , while decorative , is also likely to have had a symbolic meaning . |
| 14 | Certainly , Supreme Court judges are likely to have had a much wider variety of governmental and legal experience than their counterparts in Britain where the rather narrow process of socialization into the law and recruitment process seems to ensure less variation . |
| 15 | This is likely to have had a great influence on the goals and , in particular , the mission statement of the organisation which were discussed in Section 2.2 . |
| 16 | Nevertheless some of the law in the Pactus is likely to have had a royal origin . |
| 17 | In addition , patients entering this study were more likely to have had no symptoms of heart failure than those in the SAVE study , in which treatment for heart failure was permitted . |
| 18 | Women in second marriages are more likely to have had an affair than those in their first , and women who work full-time are , it seems , more prone to extra-curricular passions than either part-time workers or housewives . |
| 19 | Daytime and mixed day and night wetters have certain aetiological differences from night wetters , although there is much overlap : they are more likely to have had an adverse perinatal history , their bladder capacity tends to be smaller , and they are more likely to suffer urinary tract infection . |
| 20 | And among those people with confusion , constipation and incontinence , those in residential homes were more likely to have had the symptoms for a year or more . |
| 21 | We feel privileged to have had the chance to be part of such a valuable learning experience . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't mind if the lads have a laugh at my expense , that 's all part of the dressing-room banter , but it does upset me that I 'm supposed to have had a row with the manager . |
| 23 | Faye had started painting her at eleven and was supposed to have had a blood glucose test at noon . |
| 24 | Erm we we were supposed to have had a a guest speaker at the last er A G M and that was the result of the the video being shown on its own . |
| 25 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 26 | However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest . |
| 27 | However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest . |
| 28 | I am glad to have had the chance to record this act of kindness on the part of a man who is more often remembered as having installed a pay-phone for the use of his week-end guests . |
| 29 | The rain was pelting him relentlessly and he may have been as well to have had no clothes at all for all the protection his gave him . |
| 30 | When an exporter grants credit terms to the buyer abroad and the buyer ( or his bank if a Letter of Credit is involved ) accepts a Bill of Exchange , the exporter may be able to arrange to have the accepted Bill discounted , once again locking in the exchange rate from the discounting date . |