Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] having [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The giants are having fun . |
| 2 | But even these giants are having trouble . |
| 3 | Planning manager for adult services Pam Wright recognises voluntary groups are having difficulty getting to grips with the new order . |
| 4 | Twenty per cent of the crop is still in the ground and growers are having difficulty digging it out in the wet conditions … so it remains to be seen if the present glut will last . |
| 5 | In Germany and Japan , where reprocessing nuclear waste has been a requirement , using the plutonium produced seems less popular ; several utilities are having difficulty securing licences to burn MOX . |
| 6 | Early indications that importers are having difficulty in passing on the higher costs of imports , and the latest savings ratio of 11.6 per cent in 1992 , compared with 9.7 in 1991 and 12.4 in 1981 , caused little surprise . |
| 7 | Some cars are having trouble with their radio calls . |
| 8 | One important default power is that contained in the Housing Act , 1980 , which can be brought into effect whenever the minister considers that tenants are having difficulty in exercising their right to buy a council property ‘ effectively and expeditiously ’ . |
| 9 | There are a few glimmers of hope , however , since fewer firms are having trouble collecting fees and all but the larger firms are optimistic about increasing their client base . |
| 10 | In one argument it is pronouncing that huntsmen are having fun , while five sentences later it is saying they are cruel and wicked . |
| 11 | A FORTNIGHT after starting its pioneering survey of the sky , the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) is turning in high-quality data in such profusion that astronomers are having difficulty keeping up . |
| 12 | Where centres are having difficulty with Learning Outcome 5 they may consider noting discrepancies on a discrepancy report form . |
| 13 | It has become clear that some colleges are having difficulty in recruiting viable numbers of students , especially from those coming in at 18-plus , mainly because school-leavers with two A levels prefer to opt for degree courses . |
| 14 | ‘ The ladies are having tea . |
| 15 | And there , in exactly the manner I have recommended for putting in clues in the traditional whodunit , Hammett gives his readers their clue , full-out and in the open but made to look as if it was there as part of the particularly laconic , cool conversation the two men are having over the newly-slain body . |