Example sentences of "having a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The duty of loyalty has generally been invoked to prevent directors from having a personal financial interest in a decision , whilst the duty to act not for any improper purpose has sometimes been invoked to rule out decisions where directors have some other sort of personal but not directly financial interest in the decision . |
| 2 | Zurich has benefited in its search for profitable target markets from having a strong international network , built up over nearly a century , with operations in 40 countries . |
| 3 | However , from our present perspective it is actually more pertinent to turn the question round the other way and ask : why is it that some people , despite having a strong genetic disposition for psychotic illness do not actually break down — or , even if they do , are partly protected from its more devastating effects ? |
| 4 | The proportion of the electorate having a strong partisan identification was on the decrease , and the electorate becoming more ‘ volatile ’ . |
| 5 | So used to having a great big thing , I am . |
| 6 | The Galera is a Club Exclusive hotel and besides having a great easy-going atmosphere , is the scene of many lively Club get-togethers and parties . |
| 7 | Britain , sheltered by the sea and the strength of her navy from the necessity of having a good diplomatic organization , never attempted to compete with the great continental States in this respect . |
| 8 | I think it was very very important as well for Leicester to get a goal while they 're having a good good spell because er there 's no there 's no doubt I would expect Forest to put a far more sustained pressure on the second half with the wind in their backs . |
| 9 | As well as having a good working knowledge of the subject with which you are dealing , you , as an efficient PRO , should also have at your fingertips the names and telephone numbers of people within the organisation who are competent to speak to the media on specialist subjects , and this list should include others apart from the brand managers and marketing department personnel . |
| 10 | Of course , having a good offensive line helps and the coach Marty Schottenheimer has inherited one of the NLF 's most underrated offensive units , averaging 6ft 5in and over 20 stone . |
| 11 | Um just going through them , obviously there 's some benefit in having a good therapeutic relationship . |
| 12 | Yellow ochre is a colour I often use for both undercoats and overpainting , having a good semi-transparent quality . |
| 13 | Yellow ochre is a colour I often use for both undercoats and overpainting , having a good semi-transparent quality . |
| 14 | It 's not just a question of having a good old chat about the wild 30's . |
| 15 | Or , apropos of the necessity of having a good historical imagination when reading , ‘ I had much rather know what I should feel like if I adopted the beliefs of Lucretius than how Lucretius would have felt if he had never entertained them . ’ |
| 16 | To some extent , these sectoral preferences are related to ethno-religious lines of demarcation ( Boal and Poole 1976 ) ; certainly it is reasonable to view inner-city communities east and west of the river as each having a higher-status ethnic counterpart . |
| 17 | I 've heard of women so depressed that they spend their 40th birthday incommunicado , having a mini nervous breakdown in bed . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , having a consistent worldwide system is more important than having the best possible one in any single state . |
| 19 | But the thing is , there 's been that many changes now , so having a bloody Labour government is just gon na be back to square one and into reverse you know , and go back . |
| 20 | THE NAKED TRUTH : The full Cabinet … with Chancellor Norman Lamont as nature intended , stripped of all pretence of having a decent economic strategy |
| 21 | " An applicant who is not an individual natural person " means bodies either corporate or incorporate which the law recognises as having a separate legal persona . |
| 22 | Rather than having a separate database-style program , a la WordStar , WordPerfect stores addresses in the form of a simple text list . |
| 23 | We will begin by discussing an experiment by Dooling ( 1971 ) which looked at the effect of having a specific prior context on the speed of sentence comprehension . |
| 24 | In an action for recovery of land , the particulars must give : ( 1 ) a full description of the land ; ( 2 ) the net annual value for rating , or , if the land does not consist of one or more hereditaments having a separate net annual value for rating : ( a ) where the land forms part of a hereditament having a net annual value not exceeding the county court limit ( see under " Limits of County Court Jurisdiction " ) , the net annual value of that hereditament , or ( b ) in any other case , the value of the land by the year ; ( See as to NAV — Chapter 29 ) ( 3 ) the rent , if any , of the land ; ( 4 ) the grounds on which possession is claimed ; ( 5 ) in a case under s 138 of the 1984 Act ( proceedings to enforce a right of re-entry or forfeiture for non-payment of rent ) , the daily rate at which the rent in arrear or mesne profits are to be calculated ; ( 6 ) in proceedings for forfeiture the name and address of any underlessee or mortgagee entitled to claim relief against forfeiture and a copy of the particulars of claim for that person ( Ord 6 , r 3(2) ) ; ( 7 ) a claim for arrears of rent and mesne profits should be included if applicable ( see Chapter 16 ) . |
| 25 | He ate a peanut and went over his own words , having a perfect verbal memory , which was an aid in his profession . |
| 26 | Sitting in the foyer of their Salzburg hotel — between ‘ shoots ’ , obviously — Paul , guitarist brother Niall and drumming hair bear Ashley Keating are gulping down mineral water , babbling on about the ‘ fierce ’ sights of Austria and generally behaving like men who are having a blinking good time , thank record companies very much . |
| 27 | [ T ] he mental health sector will be working in collaboration with the health service in developing a ‘ Care Programme Approach ’ to the provision of services to people who have been diagnosed as having a serious mental illness . |
| 28 | I still hoped to aid Justine — or rather to correct the course of justice , feeling , in some vague and entirely unwarrantable way , that I was more civilized than these Genevese , having a two-century evolutionary lead over them ! |
| 29 | If you are born with a gene that results in your having a low metabolic rate , you need relatively smaller amounts of energy — and that means a smaller quantity of food — to keep yourself going , than people with a higher metabolic rate . |
| 30 | Moscato Spumante , Frassino £3.99 A sweet white wine from Italy , it was described as having a low local alcohol content which makes it easy to drink on its own and as an aperitif . |