Example sentences of "having a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are having a terrible life of it . |
| 2 | She needs reassurance from adults and can take on the worries of the world , having a strong sense of justice and fairness . |
| 3 | ‘ The record company being Elektra , which through four very different decades , has maintained a certain sense of style , not just in terms of its music , but also in terms of having a strong sense of artistic integrity . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The record company being Elektra , which through four very different decades , has maintained a certain sense of style , not just in terms of its music , but also in terms of having a strong sense of artistic integrity . ’ |
| 5 | The second reason for having a small circle of suspects is purely technical . |
| 6 | With that said , however , it is hard to see this having a great deal of effect on safety in residential areas in Britain . |
| 7 | Masturbation , in fact , goes with either having a great deal of sex or very little or none at all . |
| 8 | having a great deal of |
| 9 | Her brain was still having a great deal of difficulty coping with what her eyes were telling her . |
| 10 | With increasing professionalism and sophistication , the buyers of headhunting services have become more astute , often having a great understanding of how executive search firms operate and the similarities and the differences between them . |
| 11 | Having a good consumption of fruit and vegetables is a very important part of a healthy weight-loss programme . |
| 12 | However , one need not be overly cynical to realise that having a good idea of what masses of people are likely to do in response to certain policies gives a competitive advantage to politicians and businessmen alike . |
| 13 | THE Prince of Wales brought laughter from international hoteliers by telling them : ‘ There is nothing like having a good pair of Bristols . ’ |
| 14 | Much depends on having a good provision of aids geared to the needs of those in residence , not ‘ hand me downs ’ from previous occupants , to maximise individual independence . |
| 15 | Pointing to gaps in our knowledge , which itself comes from adequate understanding of sociological theory , is one of the most important parts of social research and brings out clearly the importance of the research worker having a good background of theory . |
| 16 | ‘ How is Uncle George ? ’ she asked , after having a deep draught of the hot liquid . |
| 17 | ‘ These men are torn between yearning to be close to a woman and having a deep fear of hostility towards them , ’ says psychologist Dr Susan Forward . |
| 18 | Giving further solidity to the PTGI set-up have been the recent moves into the fields of distribution and having a wider portfolio of products with the United Distillers range of spirits brands . |
| 19 | But by the nature of the staff that we have in this school , I do n't know whether Mr Goddard deliberately tries to surround himself with fools so that the school will collapse when he leaves , but the quality of the people that he has , in terms of having a broad idea of education is just a non-starter . |
| 20 | The carriage is painted dark lake ( the Queen 's colour ) relieved with scarlet and gold ; the upper quarterings having a broad border of French white round the plate glass windows in either panel . |
| 21 | In this case , having a working knowledge of the types of microcomputer available will be important . |
| 22 | The first piece of advice that 's necessary is that you should n't just try to be fashionable by choosing juicy speeches that catch your eye without knowing the whole play and having a working idea of how to perform the speech . |
| 23 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |
| 24 | This is consistent both with politicians being larger than people who simply wish to be in office whatever they have to do , and with parties having a central number of supporters who share an ideology . |
| 25 | There may be real practical advantages in having a central source of expertise ; such a source is more likely to send documents in a form , and with accompanying material , required by the state of destination or specified in the applicable bilateral or multilateral convention . |
| 26 | It can not in reality be a rational actor in the game-theory sense of having a fixed order of priorities in its policy goals . |
| 27 | Having a comprehensive understanding of the actual site , I experiment with models . |
| 28 | I had n't come to any grief by not having a comprehensive view of that crocodile pool , ignorance really was bliss that day ; but when it comes to organizing a major event , failure to see the overall picture from the start can blight the whole business . |
| 29 | … bred amongst the Indians , having a triple row of teeth , in bigness and roughness like a lion 's , face and ears like a man 's , a tail like a scorpion 's , with a sting and sharp-pointed quills … |
| 30 | ‘ where two or more persons are jointly entitled to a deposit … each of them shall be treated as having a separate deposit of an amount produced by dividing the amount of the deposit to which they are jointly entitled by the number of persons who are so entitled . |