Example sentences of "having [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | I am greatly relieved that the name Hall is now no longer associated with a company which , having all the necessary finance , does not feel it is able to build , for itself , robots that can compete with the world 's best . |
| 3 | Dr Craig-Dunlop , who owns it , prides himself on having all the latest equipment . ’ |
| 4 | Who 's having all the big families today ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This kind of group can be thought of as having only a minor role within counselling . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The tawny owl assemblages are intermediate for this character , and although it has not been quantified , it is notable that the skulls present in tawny owl pellets are less complete than those in barn owl or some of the other species listed in Table 3.5 , having only the front part of the vault preserved . |
| 14 | Equally to the point , the spectre of drastic economies that haunts so many men and women is often the result of their having only the haziest idea as to their likely income and expenditure . |
| 15 | The burnished copper shone bravely , having only the previous night survived unscathed a particularly concerted attack upon its person . |
| 16 | Eastleigh is now 5lb better off but he went to Doncaster with the benefit of three all-weather runs this year , and Big Leap , having only the third race of his career there , should confirm the form . |
| 17 | 2 Two or more words normally associating with each other and having much the same meaning as the nominal phrase , eg the very poor , a summit meeting . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Embryonic development is very sensitive to having just the right number of genes and so in females one of the X chromosomes is inactivated early in development , leaving just one functional X chromosome in each cell . |
| 20 | One of these is that of balancing the line — having just the right number of operatives for the various work stations on the line . |
| 21 | She said she was just having just the usual drinking gear and er |
| 22 | But it seems to me to be having just the opposite effect . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It seems Cheltenham 's artistic attempt to engender friendship is having exactly the opposite effect , for the time being at least . |
| 25 | Over-sharing e.g. having exactly the same views as your partner or parents about things |
| 26 | There is the same distinction between ‘ consumer deals ’ and others — the distinction having exactly the same effect . |
| 27 | Words having exactly the same sound , but different spellings and meanings : To be completely accurate , these are homophones : but homonym is the term in more general use . |
| 28 | It is in the professions where the use of microcomputers is having probably the greatest impact . |
| 29 | Ten minutes before you might have been having quite a close conversation . ’ |
| 30 | And I think she intends on having quite a few drinks . |