Example sentences of "having [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Similarly , Message Queue Interface should improve the efficiency with which loosely coupled systems work : travel agents , for example should be able to request flight information from one system and get straight on filling in other details without having to wait for the remote system to respond . |
| 2 | Alan Beith , the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman , said : ‘ This Budget is the bill taxpayers are having to meet for the catastrophic mismanagement of the economy under the Conservatives . |
| 3 | In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle . |
| 4 | The news comes as BA is still licking its wounds from having to apologise for the dirty tricks campaign conducted against its smaller rival , Virgin Atlantic , and the early retiral of its former chairman , Lord King . |
| 5 | This looks almost inescapably like a type of variation according to the referential category represented by the noun — i.e. not really a matter of syntactic relation at all — and this impression is strengthened by his further remark , " Having provided for the two extremes of referent-modification and reference-modification , we can now assess the blending that frequently — perhaps more often than not — takes place between the two . " |
| 6 | Over 50 per cent of the population of many US cities are now ethnic ‘ majorities ’ — the whites having left for the outer suburban areas . |
| 7 | Having worked for the influential retailer Woodhouse since it opened in 1975 , Guy Tolson is well-placed to analyse the ebb and flow of trends in fashionable menswear . |
| 8 | It is no wonder that Ministers do not understand the problems local government faces in having to prepare for the final year of poll tax , in having to work out how to collect the current year 's poll tax , in having to prepare the software for collection of the council tax . |