Example sentences of "[prep] have [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 The rural school child is unlike his urban peer in having to face possible separation from home and family before the end of his schooling .
32 Except in those countries such as Ireland , Greece and Portugal , where the benefits of Federalism are largely measured in terms of the largesse it produces for them , greater comprehension of what is going on has brought growing anxiety about it .
33 This kind of approach can be very useful since it provides an opportunity for the media to ask questions and get direct answers on the spot , without having to spend valuable time away from the office .
34 The user can quickly key in the document without having to take great care not to make mistakes in spelling or layout , as is necessary with a typewriter .
35 He was vice-chairman of Baldwins Ltd and could get his way in the firm when he wished , without having to take full executive responsibility for what was becoming an increasingly large business .
36 Damaged by the Gulf crisis and still without having achieved electoral reform , Kaifu 's position by the end of 1990 looked considerably less secure than it had done in the immediate aftermath of the February elections .
37 A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) .
38 Only in these five cases may the plaintiff sue for slander without having to prove financial loss .
39 This did recommend involvement of the voluntary sector on joint liaison committees and for the first time give access for voluntary agencies to make direct application to health boards without having to seek prior sponsorship from the local authority .
40 The Act treats youth services as a continuum containing educational , recreational , advisory , supportive and therapeutic facilities by putting forward an open-ended catalogue of measures and initiatives which had become ‘ custom and practice ’ or indeed signs of good , innovatory practice in some parts of the country without having had legal backing .
41 Will a subject given reinforced trials in one context fail to respond when the CS is presented in a different context without having had previous experience of non-reinforced trials in the second context ?
42 You see , it is n't easy to get this kind of job without having had previous experience , and it 's the only thing I can do , because I 've no qualifications .
43 gon na have to use brown sugar , that 's all we got
44 A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home .
45 THE export business at has seen dramatic development over the last 15 years .
46 Can anyone tell me how , if at all , Scottish interests would have been damaged by having increased Scottish membership on the committee of the regions ?
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