Example sentences of "[conj] having a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If any one should think that the women 's earnings are stated too low in these accounts , he will be convinced that they are not , on considering that these women commonly begin the world with an infant , and are mere nurses for ten or twelve years after marriage , being always either with child , or having a child at the breast ; consequently incapable of doing much other work beside the necessary businesses of their families , such as baking , washing , and the like . |
| 2 | More passive , less constructive activity with little or no end result , will have been the norm , like watching television or having a pint at the local pub . |
| 3 | Middleclass youths are often ‘ mouths ’ but rarely become gougers because the latter require an element of ‘ pure badness ’ , which from the view of the police tends to exclude the middle classes , for ‘ pure badness ’ derives from being ( or appearing to be ) educationally subnormal , coming from ‘ bad homes ’ , or having a history of crime . |
| 4 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 5 | For example , if you feel like cheese on toast for lunch , rather than having a couple of slices of toast piled with cheese , have two slices of toast , one with just a moderate layer of cheese on top , and one with baked beans . |
| 6 | The Universe would therefore have an infinite extent in all four dimensions of spacetime ; it would always have existed , rather than having a moment of birth . |
| 7 | Rather than rather than having a sort of under the counter scenario where er material considerations you know will be considered when it when it 's a separate planning application comes in there are there an ack there is an acknowledgement or a framework which is in a formal local plan which which identifies what the main considerations will be . |
| 8 | Although having a population of less than a thousand , public street lighting , bus depots and council housing estates give the town an urban character and its isolated situation at the head of the loch adds a feeling of insularity . |
| 9 | You will gather I mean it caught me unawares , and in fact it disturbed me that having a bit of a wobbly on something as simple as this did not bode well for the Devil 's Ridge , which The Munros book described as a section where ‘ some may welcome the security of a rope ’ . |
| 10 | That having a word with the dog I 'm gon na |
| 11 | Griffiths believed that a greater diversity of service options would develop if the independent sector , voluntary organizations and private companies were encouraged to compete for contracts for domiciliary and residential care services : indeed , there is evidence from initiatives in services for people with mental handicap that having a multiplicity of different service providers stimulates creative innovations in services in a way which monolithic public sector services seem slow to do . |
| 12 | Put in blunt terms , many wives grumble that having a husband at home during the day means an extra meal to cook and inevitable disruption to their normal routine . |
| 13 | It requires us to admit that having a pain in one 's foot is really having a pain ( in the void , so to speak ) , and associating it with one 's foot , such association being in the form , say , of a judgement that there is something the matter with one 's foot . |
| 14 | McIlvanney says that Stein , who worked as a miner until he was 27 , ‘ understood that having a talent for sport can be a matter of luck , not merit . |
| 15 | Data already available from a national longitudinal survey of 12,000 children from birth to 10 years will be used to test the hypothesis that having a job outside the home can reduce the risk of maternal depression — particularly in socially disadvantaged mothers . |
| 16 | Put your hand up , I ca Okay , it may be worth , in that case , having a look at past papers and having a go at writing the essays . |
| 17 | How about coming out to my farm and having a look at that sow I mentioned ? |
| 18 | but it would be worth the kids on their weekend trips going and having a look in there . |
| 19 | We spent the first day getting over the long flight ( though with only three hours time difference there was no appreciable jet-lag ) and having a look round the town . |
| 20 | Accountability or value for money is not the only reason for knowing what government is doing and having a say in it , but the consumer may have a more direct effect on policy and the producer than any number of democratic arguers . |
| 21 | Equally , however , it should be recognised that some writing is about communicating with the outside world and having a say in that world . |
| 22 | At one level this meant giving each town or neighbourhood the cinema it deserved and having a range of cinemas in down-town areas . |
| 23 | Stephen Jones , 18 , of Sands Lane , Holmeon-Spalding Moor , near York , was also charged with aggravated burglary , entering a house as a trespasser with intent to rape and having a knife as an offensive weapon . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’ |
| 25 | unc diameter drift pins , turned to close tolerances to fit snugly into the jig drilled holes and having a head at one end and the other end tapered , for driving . |
| 26 | Superconductor are wonderfully stupid and noisy , everybody playing a different tune and having a whale of a time whilst the singer gargles disinfectant . |
| 27 | He preferred the sort of woman who put her foot in it with grammar and things ; that way he could feel superior by correcting her at the time and having a laugh at her expense later with his male colleagues . |
| 28 | As native speakers of London English and having a knowledge of Creole , they have " a foot in each camp " . |
| 29 | This comes from being self-taught and having a background in church music . |
| 30 | And having a and having a gossip with Maggie . |