Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of us constantly tell stories where we depict ourselves as having the qualities we secretly think we lack or that others need reminding of . |
| 2 | Gallie concludes that the relatively greater emphasis upon authoritarian and paternalistic practices within the French context is not solely a reflection of managerial attitudes engendered by the structural characteristics of industry , as typified by a long predominance of small , family firms in which the employer regarded himself as having a right to exclusive control . |
| 3 | Griffith had come to the movies quite late in life and he came as a man whose varied experiences and whose accumulated opinions , myths , and prejudices had given him a sense of America and of himself as having a place in it . |
| 4 | He sees himself as having an intuitive , feminine aspect . |
| 5 | For one thing it was an opportunity , in a purely objective , journalistic sense , to expose the hypocrisy of a magazine that , to Branson 's mind , ‘ had always purported to be so perfect itself while having a go at everybody else ’ . |
| 6 | Britain in the 1940s and 1950s saw itself as having a major power ( primarily military ) space programme . |
| 7 | The models of teaching it commended were expected to be influential , and the Authority saw itself as having a duty to provide a clear lead on the direction and character of primary classroom practice . |
| 8 | The emergence of nation states , initially in Western Europe and the US , depended upon two main conditions : one was the development of modern centralized government , undertaken by the absolute monarchs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , while the other was the rise of nationalism , embodying the idea of political self-determination for a social group which inhabits a definite territory , conceives itself as having a distinct ethnic and cultural character , and has embarked upon a struggle to establish popular sovereignty in place of dynastic rule . |
| 9 | It successfully portrayed itself as having the solution to Britain 's economic problems which it saw as being due to excessive State intervention in every sphere , and to the dependence mentality which this produced . |
| 10 | The Code recognizes itself as having the support of s. 66 and it would be expected that it is indeed ‘ generally recognized ’ . |
| 11 | Horace Walpole described her as having a ‘ paltry air of significant learning and absurdity ’ , and added that she was so totally lacking in humour that ‘ she repined when she should laugh and reasoned when she should be diverted ’ . |
| 12 | You can never describe her as having a particular image . |
| 13 | ‘ Old bass-voiced Ethel Walker , ’ Woolf called her and described her as having a ‘ rough-raddled charm , the result of living a regular herring grillers life ’ . |
| 14 | Although I rated Mr Smith quite high in terms of integrity , I did not regard him as having a superior intellect and throughout the negotiations with which I was concerned he remained blinded by a prejudiced belief that the only rule in Rhodesia which was tolerable or possible was white rule . |
| 15 | Brooke met Gerry Collins , the Irish Foreign Minister , on May 31 amid a public controversy over the disclosure on May 30 that the Unionist parties had rejected Lord Carrington , a former UK Foreign Secretary , as a possible chair of the second phase of talks , describing him as having a " deplorable " record on Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | An Army report once described him as having no regard for human life . |
| 17 | ‘ That were Bill Oldenshaw , him as has the farm over by Stones Place . |
| 18 | Monckton Milnes , a good memorialist but a forgettable poet , visited the lake in 1838 and later wrote a poem about the tragedy , taking a more honour ably sentimental line towards it than had the morbid locals : |
| 19 | Joe said he liked the sound of that , and could she bring her Bovril up and drink it while having a chat with the young woman who was resting her sprained ankle on his bed ? |
| 20 | Nicholas Pevsner later referred to it as having a ‘ blustering High Victorian effect ’ . |
| 21 | He suggests that although manufacturers had an instrumental influence in supporting this act — it helped to rationalize and make predictable the conduct of competitors — they also saw it as having a symbolic dimension , which if anything , was predominant in their minds . |
| 22 | Any of these must give it as having a certain structure . |
| 23 | Barratt considered it as having a very promising appearance ; " a large champion lode " , he reported to Taylor . |
| 24 | Mortensen described it as having a hooked tip and identified his specimens as A. palmeri , type locality : Key Biscayne , Florida because that species has a prominent hook on the second arm spine . |
| 25 | There would probably be no need to transfer substantial assets of the business into the new company and the appropriate step might be to allocate part of the solicitors ' clientele to the company partner to establish it as having a regular practice . |
| 26 | Lord Wilberforce considered ( at pp986 and 987 ) that there were two possible interpretations to the section : The first is to regard it as having a limited effect ; to be directed against persons who transfer assets abroad ; who by means of such transfers avoid tax , and who yet manage when resident in the United Kingdom to obtain or to be in a position to obtain benefits from those assets . |
| 27 | Statistics up to 1971 showed it as having an old-age structure and to have been in continuing decline , though there are recent signs of improvement ( Census of Ireland 1981 ) . |
| 28 | Q : I take it you would n't describe yourself as having a maternal nature ? |
| 29 | and then say , Do you perceive yourself as having an accent ? |
| 30 | The clash of symbols represented by Dixon and Rambo represents a more fundamental conflict between those policemen and women who emphasize their role in terms of crime-fighting , especially ‘ big crime ’ , and those who see themselves as having a public service and community welfare role . |