Example sentences of "[subord] have [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is much better to step in and help people firmly rather than having to punish them at a later stage . |
| 2 | It is much better to attempt to prevent fears arising , rather than having to rectify them at a later stage . |
| 3 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 4 | A lot of labour yes but that was far far better than to have to turn them by hand you know . |
| 5 | In a busy life , it is easier to avoid embarrassment than to have to extricate oneself from it . |
| 6 | In March 1991 , more people there voted to recall him as their deputy than had voted him into office in the election a year before . |
| 7 | than have to constrain himself to one and and and there 's just no m content there . |
| 8 | Call the Coastguard for information if in doubt — they would rather speak to you on the phone than have to rescue you on the water ! |
| 9 | A If an anemone can not be easily removed ( and without damage ) when you buy it , then I would certainly seriously consider buying the rock if has attached itself to as well . |
| 10 | Parliament has introduced taxation of this ‘ perk ’ but upon a gradually increasing scale — still short of the true value of the use of the car — no doubt because to have introduced it at its full value would have been seen as an unfair and unacceptable increase in the burden of taxation in one year on those who enjoyed the ‘ perk ’ and of course the future of the British motor industry would be taken into account . |
| 11 | The authorities are thought of as having committed themselves to the maintenance of a particular unemployment rate irrespective of the inflationary consequences and of being prepared to carry over this policy at least into period t . |
| 12 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |