Example sentences of "having [verb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competitive Bowling : Having developed a taste for bowling you may wish to consider bowling in a league . |
| 2 | They thus occupy a rather special place in the spectrum of infectious human disease , since , without being able to find the germ responsible , it is not only rather difficult to be sure that the disease is present in the first place , but , having given a treatment for which there can be no de finite evidence of efficacy , since no organism has been eliminated , it can be very difficult to tell whether the infection has resolved or even whether the patient is better . |
| 3 | I am glad to have had the chance to record this act of kindness on the part of a man who is more often remembered as having installed a pay-phone for the use of his week-end guests . |
| 4 | After wowing audiences on their recent British tour with Sub Pop labelmates Nirvana , L7 can be assured of a warm welcome in their own right , having earned a reputation for stage-diving lunacy to match their toughly feminine hard knock rock . |
| 5 | After wowing audiences on their recent British tour with Sub Pop labelmates Nirvana , L7 can be assured of a warm welcome in their own right , having earned a reputation for stage-diving lunacy to match their toughly feminine hard knock rock . |
| 6 | But if I tell her the truth and insist upon it , I shall be disobeying my husband and causing his mother unnecessary worry , she reflected , and was forced to accept that having made a cross for her back , she would have to bear it . |
| 7 | His reputation as a shipbuilder was still second to none and , having built a warship for the Sultan of Turkey , he was invited to Turkey to re-organise the country 's construction of warships . |
| 8 | In June 1992 the talks appeared to have foundered , having overrun the deadline for an agreement without having produced a package for the consideration of Quebec [ see p. 38956 ] . |
| 9 | In June 1992 the talks appeared to have foundered , having overrun the deadline for an agreement without having produced a package for the consideration of Quebec [ see p. 38956 ] . |
| 10 | As Engels puts it , despite having had a product for nearly two years , Cognos is still at the ‘ toe in the water ’ stage with the AS/400 market . |
| 11 | So we have that remarkable verse , Galatians 3.13 : ‘ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law , having become a curse for us . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law , having become a curse for us — for it is written ‘ Cursed be every one who hangs upon a tree ’ — so that in Christ Jesus the blessing accorded to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles , that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith' ( Gal. 3:14 ) . |
| 13 | Er , today and every day , almost , a question of the police , at the moment , there is this business going on , er , in in London , at Stoke Newington , over the fact that , the charges against the police for corruption , being involved with all sorts of things that they should n't , er , and we are living through a time , where the police is having to fight a battle for it 's own respect . |
| 14 | This motion is the disgraceful practice by certain insurance companies , of having settled a claim for personal injury , get a person to sign a disclaimer . |
| 15 | HAVING found a school for our three children and a house to rent , my wife and I took up our new life on . |
| 16 | The level of incompetence , humiliation and overcrowding is remarkably low — at one point Hurt throws a wobbly about having to share a room for one day with one other person . |
| 17 | 1781 " The Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge having appointed a Schoolmaster for the Parish of Kildaltan , with a Sallary of six pounds sterl. , on the Express condition that the Parish should pay him four pound more — Therefore the Parish of Kildaltan are Stented with the said sum . |
| 18 | It was her second spell at the pub , having run a tenancy for several years with her estranged husband , Steve . |
| 19 | A few proponents of the change effort saw themselves as having to provide the executive leadership for the change and having to develop a strategy for doing so . |
| 20 | Firstly , what is the position of a Health Authority which , having identified a need for a particular service , can not find a provider ? |
| 21 | ( 4 ) Where the arrangements for the admission of pupils to a school maintained by a local education authority provide for applications for admission to be made to , or to a person acting on behalf of , the governors of the school , a parent who makes such an application shall be regarded for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above as having expressed a preference for that school in accordance with arrangements made under subsection ( 1 ) above . |
| 22 | Having established a role for women — beautiful and otherwise — Nuttall went on to ask : ‘ Can we apply a quivering phallic strength to our civic organization and our economy ? ’ |