Example sentences of "having [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that at the age of 34 , fourteen years after first shambling on stage in downtown Chicago , having criss-crossed the stand-up circuit from coast to coast and guested on very hip chat show from David Letterman to Arsenio Hall , he should be bigger than he is . |
| 2 | Having received the unspoken messages which every corner gives ( the condition of the toilets , the way books in the library are presented , the displays along corridors and in classrooms , the amount of litter around the building , the beauty or devastation of the flower beds , the graffiti on the walls ) judgements are made about school and schooling . |
| 3 | And the only record that we have in scripture of any evidence of folk having received the Holy Spirit was that they spoke with other tongues . |
| 4 | EVERYONE must be wondering what is happening on the Mid-Hants Railway , the ‘ Watercress Line ’ , having received the startling news from the pages of a contemporary magazine that volunteers have been resigning from the work force in substantial numbers . |
| 5 | Having examined the various sectors er we 've come to the view that there are three sectors which are least worst in that effect , erm which is the north east sector , south east and the south west . |
| 6 | Having examined the parliamentary history of sections 61 and 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , it was held that the parliamentary intention was that in-house benefits should be assessed for income tax on the basis of marginal costs to the employer and not as a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; that this effect applied to the education of the children of teachers who were employees ; and that section 63 of the 1976 Act should be construed accordingly . |
| 7 | Having examined the indirect approaches to selling , we shall now look at the more direct methods . |
| 8 | Having examined the main reasons which explain the predominance of localised , single-employer bargaining on the North American continent we now consider the case of Japan , the other major country in which collective bargaining is normally conducted on an enterprise basis rather than in the form of industry-wide agreements . |
| 9 | This is also the reason why , having examined the main dimensions of employment change in the next two chapters , we return to the topic of population in Chapter 7 . |
| 10 | Moreover , he assesses such people ( in his book The Nightmare , 1985 ) as being ‘ markedly open and defenceless , not having developed the psychological protection most people have … they have thin boundaries ( between conscious and unconscious states ) and let things through . ’ |
| 11 | They can not win , for the aim of the stressed work-force is to avoid having to embrace the discomfiting uncertainty by construing itself as victimized and manipulated . |
| 12 | Having considered the intrinsic nature of the problem presented in this appeal , and having consulted the relevant authorities , my conclusion … is that an action lies in negligence for damages in respect of purely economic loss , provided that it was a reasonably foreseeable and direct consequence of failure in a duty of care . |
| 13 | Since the relevant ones will be concentrated in one area of the inverted tree they can be quickly located by moving from the root downwards and along the correct branches , without ever having to search the whole database . |
| 14 | Besides being the more outgoing of the two , as well as having joined the local drama group , he had lived in London longer . |
| 15 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 16 | Having recalled the federal parliament in early September in order to authorize the referendum , Mulroney joined federal Liberal Party leader Jean Chrétien and New Democratic Party ( NDP ) leader Audrey McLaughlin in an unofficial truce whereby issues of partisan politics were put aside in order to maximize the impact of the campaign in favour of the new constitutional package . |
| 17 | Having withdrawn the original proposal to tax in-house benefits on the open market price charged to the public , the Financial Secretary gave assurance that in a number of specific cases benefits would continue to be taxed as before , and in the specific case of school teachers paying concessionary school fees , the charge would be nil or very small . |
| 18 | Having dismissed the logical difficulty there is an empirical problem as far as methods 1 and 2 above are concerned . |
| 19 | Having dismissed the Hayekian argument , are you not forced into some form of socialism ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I read The Can Book , ’ says Neil , uneasy with having to conduct the entire interview without the help of fellow band-members John and guitarist Nigel . |
| 21 | ‘ Clothes make man ’ said the German proverb , and no age was more aware of it than one in which social mobility could actually place numerous people into the historically novel situation of playing new ( and superior ) social roles and therefore having to wear the appropriate costumes . |
| 22 | The magazine , unfortunately with a deadline of well before Christmas , has this to say of Romania in its summary of how changes in Eastern Europe might affect the game there : ‘ No visible signs of change and with the recent party congress having given the despotic president Nicolae Ceausescu another five years in office and dissident opposition ruthlessly crushed by the secret police , Romania will remain in the Dark Ages for the foreseeable future . ’ . |
| 23 | Having sellotaped the coloured strips onto the floor the sellotape reels were left sandwiched behind each Dalek 's waistband as a further rehearsal aid — a red reel in Dalek Two 's waistband for instance . |
| 24 | Having witnessed the horrifying poverty and hunger in countries where there is just not enough food to feed the teeming masses , he feels depressed and worried about the future . |
| 25 | As well as having undertaken the nominated activity within 1990 and being members of the BAPC , entrants for the award had to assemble a small report giving the ‘ whys ’ and the ‘ hows ’ of their particular project . |
| 26 | When a purpose-designed cap was brought in to replace the humble condom , it was reported that the mine-laying frogmen were less than happy , having regarded the prior item as something of a ‘ perk ’ of the job . |
| 27 | Starting off with paragraph thirty three of P P G three , , erm you 'll see in my statement that I 've actually in seeking to address point A dealt with each of the conditions that P P G three er refers to , for which a new settlement should be contemplated , and you will see that I 've reached a conclusion that having regarded the unique circumstances of York , the Greater York new settlement does represent an appropriate and justified policy response , you 'll se also see my statement , I 've taken some comfort from the fact that the good practice guide that has been published by the department of the environment , has endorsed the approach that North Yorkshire County Council has taken towards the special circumstances of the Greater York area . |
| 28 | The most intellectually satisfying explanation is that embodied in the doctrine of karma , in accordance with which the dead child may be regarded as having completed the final stage of a soul-life that , in previous incarnations , had almost earned its passage and , after one more brief sojourn , was able to escape from the cycle of death and rebirth . |
| 29 | Having completed the definitional stage of the theoretical investigation of natural monopoly , we turn now to two intertwined issues of control . |
| 30 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |