Example sentences of "to have [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believes that talk of the so-called ‘ post-industrial society ’ is raising some unnecessary fears that may be causing some talented managers to have second thoughts about aspiring to a top job . |
| 2 | Such incidents might have caused Sir Bernard to have second thoughts about the system ; but he defends it with passion . |
| 3 | She was beginning to have second thoughts about bothering the Police with such a mass of suspicion based on such little tangible fact . |
| 4 | But now that John Gribbin has made it known ( Letters , 26 January ) that the term ( and presumably the concept ) ‘ centrifugal force ’ is favoured by the relativists , I am beginning to have second thoughts . |
| 5 | It is , indeed , quite a common occurrence for a government to have second thoughts about a Bill during or after its progress through the Commons and to use its supporters in the House of Lords to make the changes in a Bill then seen to be desirable . |
| 6 | You 're always saying it 's antisocial for people to have second homes or leave property empty . |
| 7 | She knew that I 'd have to keep Dawn in my bedroom to start with , and she 'd been beginning to have second thoughts about letting me do that . |
| 8 | In Downing Street , the Cabinet began to have second thoughts . |
| 9 | Benny realized with a shock that he meant it , and began to have second thoughts . |
| 10 | Unless you 're beginning to have second thoughts . ’ |
| 11 | Am I supposed to have second sight as to his whereabouts ? ’ |
| 12 | For the first time Shannon began to have second thoughts about the trip . |
| 13 | This head felt that the re-expression and development of ideas which IT made possible allowed every pupil the chance to have second thoughts . |
| 14 | Praeiectus , however , although he was one of the five , began to have second thoughts , because of a vision which his mother had had , forecasting a great ecclesiastical career . |
| 15 | Perhaps even she has begun to have second thoughts about the ballooning barminess of these proceedings … |
| 16 | But now , with only a little while to go before she must join him in the sitting-room , she was starting to have second thoughts about the wisdom of accepting . |
| 17 | It 's a erm it was let's see what we can do to these nasty Labour controlled authorities and see how we can break down their erm their control of education and immediately they introduce it then suddenly the things start happening and they have second thoughts about it , and I 'm sure as night follows day that they 're going to have second thoughts about this when it actually occurs . |
| 18 | I suggested it to Gunther and he agreed , wanting to have first viewing . |
| 19 | When the hotel only had one toilet , it was the board master 's privilege to have first use every morning . |
| 20 | The pre-Classic Maya seem to have first exploited the raised platforms in the swamps by growing crops such as maize only in the dry season ( now February to May ) . |
| 21 | One of the most promising of the younger brigade is Adam Scowcroft who is one of 10 yet to have first team experience . |
| 22 | The users ' applications systems , the Finance Director 's report , software maintenance : all seem to have first call on your time . |
| 23 | This small shard of antiquarian knowledge which he claimed was the precise location of the hill , the peak in Darién , from which Vasco Núñez de Balboa was reputed to have first glimpsed the Pacific Ocean on the morning of Tuesday , 27 September 1513 . |
| 24 | Raytheon is said to have first orders in hand . |
| 25 | More satisfactory measures of total fertility can be based on estimates of the chances of women going on to have first , second , third etc. births ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) . |
| 26 | The term appears to have first been used by Josephus , writing at least three-quarters of a century later , between A.D. 75 and 94 . |
| 27 | ( Indeed , not only did Beccaria use the concept of utility , but Bentham himself acknowledged his intellectual debt to Beccaria in the most fulsome terms and is even believed to have first encountered the phrase ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ in Beccaria 's master work : see Beccaria , 1963 : x-xi , 9 . ) |
| 28 | It was the child that had to have first consideration , and what had I got to offer it that justified my bringing it into the world ? |
| 29 | Credit and debt repayments for housing , fuel , furniture and children 's clothes tend to have first call on the income , being deducted from benefit at source or paid early in the weekly budgeting cycle . |
| 30 | Years earlier he had resided briefly at a clinic with Vivien , where Robert Sencourt claimed to have first met them both : and earlier still he had spoken of a mental condition of ‘ long-standing ’ . |