Example sentences of "having [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wall Street is notorious for having scant regard for the future and even less for the past . |
| 2 | Rachel crawled into the confined space beside him , and with a little jolt she saw it was Len Seager , the man who had been having alcohol-related problems . |
| 3 | Napoli is also a very popular variety , having coarser lumps of flat than the Milano and being made with a mixture of pork and beef . |
| 4 | In other words it enables one to modify the artificially simplistic notion of clear-cut dependent and independent variables having one-way causal links . |
| 5 | He denies the university 's claim that he cheated in two papers through having advance knowledge of the questions . |
| 6 | Her rapid rise to the top is well deserved and she does not suffer from having political labels stuck on her . |
| 7 | No , I 'm not saying they should be forbidden from having political opinions or from making political statements . |
| 8 | It was a fairly important village , the church having possible connections with Meaux Abbey . |
| 9 | Children with low comprehension scores but high expressive scores are seen as having possible emotional problems , or as suffering from echolalia . |
| 10 | Within 15 minutes of entering a clinic in Tenerife , he was diagnosed as having possible terminal bronchial pneu-monia . |
| 11 | Institutions established outside the normal administrative structures having broad responsibilities for regional or area development provide at least a theoretical framework able to ensure a degree of coordination between sectoral government agencies . |
| 12 | The western Mediterranean , however , is quite different , having alpine folds to the south as well as to the north . |
| 13 | A confident distinction between ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's colitis is not possible in all patients despite adequate clinical and pathological evaluation and many are classified as having indeterminate colitis . |
| 14 | There was little consistency on record-keeping , some authorities having extensive personal files while others kept only the minimum information . |
| 15 | Profits : By having extensive overseas interests , banks can take advantage of different economic growth rates and stages of the business cycle in various countries , so enabling them to stabilise their profits . |
| 16 | He is familiar with the property market , having extensive property interests in Dublin with Larry Goodman . |
| 17 | At the last competition , one host family , horrified by the condition of their guest 's teeth , spent thousands and thousands of dollars having extensive dental work done before the finals . |
| 18 | Three ( 25% ) of the 12 patients randomised to no chemotherapy were classified as having stable disease and nine ( 75% ) as having progressive disease . |
| 19 | And fancy your having complete charge of the Vicarage kids during the Easter hols , while their mother is in Hungary ! |
| 20 | Discourse rarely depends upon speakers having complete and identical representations of the meanings of the words they use . |
| 21 | ‘ As a senior director , I 'm used to having complete creative authority while making a film and I found that I could n't carry out my job in the manner to which I had become accustomed . |
| 22 | Mark showed no signs of being really inspired with religious enthusiasm , or , for that matter , of having matrimonial intentions where Clare was concerned . |
| 23 | As antimalarial drugs were desperately needed during the war , it is startling to realize that chloroquine was first synthesized several years before the war and recognized at that time as having antimalarial activity . |
| 24 | By having each and every one of them involved , you can not only tap their expertise but also get their commitment to tackling a problem that affects the entire company . |
| 25 | Several of these bits may be set in an instruction , in which case all the specified functions are carried out ; the order in which functions are performed is fixed by having each function assigned to one of four timing points within the basic instruction cycle . |
| 26 | And certainly at the level of or two machines per school we 're not quite in the league of having each child it it 's own cell yet . |
| 27 | Also — and I 'm quite prepared to admit this — because of all the problems I was having trying to find work , just at that moment I really did n't want the bother of hunting for a new home . |
| 28 | Then there is a range of measurements of the functioning of the physiological systems of the animal ; we can make measurements which tell us how hard a time the animal is having trying to cope with the conditions which are imposed upon it . |
| 29 | And there were so many new pressures — the long hours you worked , the way your parents disapproved of me , the problems I was having trying to get my own career off the ground . |
| 30 | Bateleur Eagles are unusual in having dimorphic plumage , the female displays grey secondary feathers whilst males have entirely black wings . |