Example sentences of "[be] have [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I right in in thinking that we 're having some new speakers ? |
| 2 | If the silence lasts too long for you to feel comfortable , repeat the last thing the person just said or say , ‘ I 'm not sure how to read your silence ’ or ‘ Looks like you 're having some interesting thoughts -would you like to say anything about them ? ’ |
| 3 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 4 | It 's funny you know , since I 've been having these new cars I see these old cars , what a lot of bloody rubbish on the road , you know ! |
| 5 | But at street level the business slowdown and slump in share prices are having little observable effect . |
| 6 | Tonight we are having another ritual debate on the common agricultural policy . |
| 7 | Of course , this is usually so , but I am having little niggling doubts about such a sweeping statement . |
| 8 | It was locked , but on the understandable assumption that Andropulos would n't be having any further use for it Talbot wrenched it open with a chisel . |
| 9 | Surely she could n't really be having this ridiculous conversation ? |
| 10 | Cos I 'm having that french bread . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm having some new treatment for my migraine attacks , ’ she told them , accepting a second cup of tea . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm having some funny pains . ’ |
| 13 | If they are to have any explanatory bite it must first be possible to pick out particular causal connections against a fairly stable set of background conditions . |
| 14 | The objectives which the objectors are anxious to see achieved are to have these two sites shown as being in the greenbelt . |
| 15 | But we were to have several more arguments in the months to come , and not all of them about poetry . |
| 16 | I felt I had to get clear early on if I were to have any real chance . |
| 17 | ‘ Her mother 's having another Wayne-hating week . ’ |
| 18 | An important element of this is to have all key variables in the manufacture of these raw materials under process control . |
| 19 | The object is to have all three cups facing upwards after three turns . |
| 20 | An obvious answer is to have this basic groundwork done by a much smaller group who would meet more regularly and for longer periods at a stretch . |
| 21 | I now realize what a great honour it is to have this Presidential Chain bestowed on me and I trust that I will be able to uphold and fulfil my obligations as President , particularly when I reflect upon the contributions made by my predecessors . |
| 22 | But if knowledge is to have any substantial meaning , what I must never say is , ‘ I know ’ , and then add , ‘ but I am sure I am wrong . |
| 23 | The self-centredness of addictive disease has to be changed to a life that is God- and other-people- centred if recovery is to have any lasting substance . |
| 24 | The final chapter outlines what is involved in production planning if a video recording is to have any lasting impact . |
| 25 | If it is to have any practical value a recording system must be concerned with measuring observable behaviour . |
| 26 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |
| 27 | He explains how necessary it is to have these mental filters to exclude or devalue events which may be too disturbing . |
| 28 | The goal is to have several hundred software houses rallied to the banner by the end of the year . |
| 29 | The ideal is to have several simply-administered taxes to support the national exchequer , levied after people have earned their pay or income . |
| 30 | One , one of the things that I think will be in value to you , once the systems in place , is to have some standard agenda items for the quality committee meeting and that may be sensible as being one of them . |