Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can think of nothing more damaging to law and order in the metropolis than having the hon. Gentleman as chairman of such an authority . |
| 2 | and what have you come down for a meal and we used to sit with the landlord having a having a natter whilst having a few few drinks and er yeah he he used to say er when we went up what do you fancy tonight ? |
| 3 | It may record its disagreement but ultimately accept the majority 's support of the development ; it may refuse to meet its financial obligations until the organisation ceases the action in question , although this may itself be contrary to the treaty ; it may regard the action as having no legal effect ; or it may withdraw from the organisation . |
| 4 | Bush characterized the action as having no military advantage for the Iraqis and as providing further evidence of Saddam Hussein 's ability to " amaze " and " outrage " international opinion . |
| 5 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 6 | Only special notice from you to those involved that your agent 's authority has ended will prevent you being liable once you have held out an agent as having the right to legally commit you to certain agreements . |
| 7 | Sometimes the switch contacts happen to bounce an even number of times , say 2 or 4 , and this achieves the same result as having no bounce at all ! |
| 8 | However , they are difficult to defend in the context of aid when cultural values are different in donor countries and recipient countries , and when public opinion in the donor countries perceives aid as having a moral justification . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most unusual feature of the diagram was that it represented the figure as having a twin backbone . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's more important to be the best surfer at St Agnes on a Sunday afternoon than to have the right T-shirt . ’ |
| 11 | Nothing is guaranteed to make an expert less sympathetic to your case than having an argument about when they are likely to be paid . |
| 12 | Baldwin 's ( 1985 , p. 142 ) work on bringing up handicapped children indicates that grandparents often buy necessities such as food and clothing , and this can be vital to the finances of a household where having a handicapped child creates additional expense . |
| 13 | Try to introduce some humour into the session , as there is no better way of reducing anxiety than to have the group laughing together . |
| 14 | It must be better to be an alone child than to have a brother like Augustin . |
| 15 | Better to be in philosophy than have the facilities which has greatly benefited the charge payers and the people who think right across the board . |
| 16 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 17 | Diana had accidentally overheard her husband talking on a portable telephone while having a bath . |
| 18 | Over-expression of Oct-1 decreased the level of expression driven by the HPV 16 motif whilst having no effect on the much higher level of expression driven by the HPV 6 motif and the extent of repression observed was dependent upon the degree of over-expression of Oct-1 ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 19 | Mr. Miller , of whom I must always retain the highest sense , both for the Knowledge I have received from his Labours , and more particularly that Friendship and Communicativeness with which he always treated me , was blessed with a more favourable Situation in the progress of his Experiments , by enjoying the kind Influence of the Sun ( the parent of Vegetation ) in so high a Degree as to have the Vine in full ripeness on the natural Wall , without the assistance of Art ; and could we all experience the same Felicity , I need not have communicated my Observations or my Countrymen wanted an other Tutor … |
| 20 | Such inducements can be caught by British law as having a clearly defined ‘ tendency to deprave and corrupt ’ . |
| 21 | To take a causal circumstance as having no redundancy is obviously to exclude things wholly irrelevant to the effect . |
| 22 | Homer sees The Committee as having a tremendous chance in the National if he stays out of trouble . |
| 23 | At the end of the year the Bank received the prime accolade as having the Best Corporate Arts Programme in Great Britain . |
| 24 | In such circumstances , one or more persons may be appointed to sue or be sued in a representative capacity as having a common interest with all other persons ( Ord 5 , r 5(1) ) . |
| 25 | It also seemed obvious that the universe had a unique history , yet since the discovery of quantum mechanics , we have had to consider the universe as having every possible history . |
| 26 | Class F The right of a spouse ( commonly the wife ) to occupy the matrimonial home though having no legal estate therein under the Matrimonial Homes Act 1967 as amended . |
| 27 | And what nicer way to round off the evening than to have a quiet nightcap on the terrace with new-found friends , or take a gentle moonlit stroll along the beach . |
| 28 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |
| 29 | Greece was criticized at the conference as having the worst record among participating countries . |
| 30 | If one person performed all these tasks then they were defined by the Tavistock group as having a ‘ composite work role ’ . |