Example sentences of "having [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wolfgang , meanwhile , was having rather a good time in Vienna on his own , staying sometimes with his friends Leutgeb the horn-player and the Puchbergs , who kept him fed , and going out drinking with an old friend , Emmanuel Schikaneder , an actor , singer , writer and producer and the manager of the Theater auf der Wieden in the suburbs . |
| 2 | It has been reported that the addition of minute amounts of phosphatidylcholines normalised the short nucleation time of bile from patients with cholesterol gall stones while having only a minimal effect on the cholesterol saturation index . |
| 3 | Prior to Ridge v. Baldwin the combined effect of the administrative-judicial dichotomy and that drawn between rights and privileges , resulted in the rules of procedural fairness having only a limited application in this area . |
| 4 | Taylor was surprised that Robson forced his way back into the side this season , after having only a disappointing performance against the Irish when he made his previous comeback in March . |
| 5 | This kind of group can be thought of as having only a minor role within counselling . |
| 6 | In general , matrices are rectangular ; but of particular importance are matrices having equal numbers of rows and columns — i.e. square matrices — and those having only a single row or column , which we call vectors ; both types are special forms of rectangular matrices . |
| 7 | Schoolboys reveal themselves as having only a thin veneer of ‘ civilization ’ which , once the constraints of authority are removed , disappears , laying bare their ‘ true nature ’ which is violent , domineering , and competitive , resulting in the survival of the fittest in a most literal sense . |
| 8 | The USA held to its position of open airways , with an international body having only a consultative role ; but it withheld the right for airlines to operate from any American point . |
| 9 | I told myself I could live with the thought of having just a small part of your life and love , but when you put it into words a few moments ago I could see how awful it would have been . |
| 10 | By now , however , in the twilight of their existence on Earth , problems of climate were becoming more important , having finally a crucial bearing on whether they would continue to live on as a species , or succumb . |
| 11 | Ten minutes before you might have been having quite a close conversation . ’ |
| 12 | It is difficult to imagine a school appointing a Head of French or Science without having either a fair idea of what a French or Science curriculum should be or a commitment to quickly devise one . |
| 13 | In a paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy I defended the view he rejected by saying that the ‘ nature ’ of the ‘ sensations as they are in their own nature ’ is the nature we apprehend them as having when a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally , and that the reason why a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally need not be a reason of which we are conscious . |
| 14 | These suppliers , having therefore a good stock of P Notes , but perhaps not much cash , will often use the Notes to pay their suppliers in turn , and so the chain builds up . |