Example sentences of "of having a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to think that once she had accused him of having a shard of ice in his heart — some wound from previous love affairs that prevented him from ever revealing his real feelings to any woman . |
| 2 | ‘ The play is all about charm , and the importance of having a sense of humour . |
| 3 | Here was this young creature , beautiful and restless , married to a man almost old enough to be her grandfather , and apparently setting out to make the very best of it , too , with no signs of regret or self-pity ; but the prospect of having a girl of her own age in the house , even for a few days , might well matter to her a great deal more than the extension and acceptance of a mere conventional politeness . |
| 4 | The Government has set an objective of having a structure of NVQs which , by the end of 1992 , covers 80 per cent of the working population of the UK . |
| 5 | In spite of having a range of injected plastic mouldings , there are always times when there just is n't anything for the size of a spar , the angle of fit , or sufficiently shock-absorbing to accept a crash , or to permit a kite to be folded . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a Russian story about a peasant who dreams night after night of having a bowl of cherry jam and no spoon to eat it with . |
| 7 | Yet terms such as ‘ resources ’ , ‘ employee , ’ or ‘ structural alteration ’ may be capable of having a spectrum of possible meanings depending upon the overall scope and policy of the legislation . |
| 8 | An " agency " ( or " employment business " , in the words of the 1973 Employment Agencies Act ) is a " business … supplying persons in the employment of the person carrying on the business , to act for , and under the control of , other persons in any capacity " ( 5.13 ( 3 ) ) , 1 but the word " employment " is used in a much wider sense than that of having a contract of employment . |
| 9 | He is in danger of having a kind of professional Welsh voice . |
| 10 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 11 | An elegant example of this is La Bourgoise d'Orliens , " The townswoman of Orléans " , in which the husband , a merchant , suspecting his wife of having a clerk as a lover ( which she has ) tests her by pretending to go away but returning in the guise of a clerk . |
| 12 | ‘ The thought of having a plaster in her mouth so revolted her , she vomited . ’ |
| 13 | The dog will soon come to anticipate its walk eagerly , and rapidly settle into the routine of having a run before returning to you . |
| 14 | There 's always the attraction of having a drink in the Eagle and Child , where Tolkien , along with colleagues like C.S.Lewis and T.E.Lawrence would meet every week . |
| 15 | For scientists , the main economic advantage of having a facility in their home country is the reduced cost of travel and accommodation . |
| 16 | HRH Prince Charles in a message to the sixth National Conference of Organic Food Production What is worrying farmers most is that nature has a nasty habit of having a sting in the tail . |
| 17 | But er but when Marguerite says she 's thinking of having a couple for her living room that ca n't be pictures of somebody else 's room she 's putting up , he must be taking snaps . |
| 18 | They report that " the present proprietor of Islay can use the rare boast of having a proportion of his family plate manufactured from silver found on his own domains . " |
| 19 | They report that " the present proprietor of Islay can use the rare boast of having a proportion of his family plate manufactured from silver found on his own domains . " |
| 20 | There are only three solutions : the owners can decide that the pleasure of having a cat in the home is greater than the distress of living with scratched furniture , or some kind of covering that cats hate to scratch has to be put over the sides of the furniture , or the cats have to be trained not to strop the furniture with their claws . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think he 's on this wavelength , ’ she said , ‘ I had thought of having a holiday in one of the Martello towers if I do n't see him soon . ’ |
| 22 | If he ca n't , Angelica 's thinking , it 's probably going to mean the expense of having a part of the terrace decking taken up and relaid . |
| 23 | Something in me recoiled from the idea of having a part of myself torn away by force , even if it did n't hurt . |
| 24 | It is therefore unsurprising to note that parents fear the prospect of having a child with Down 's Syndrome , and seek to determine , at a prenatal stage , whether their child is suffering from this handicap . |
| 25 | After two years of marriage , they appear to have given up hope of having a child of their own and have filed adoption papers in Palm Beach , Florida . |
| 26 | Manager Howard Kendall ruled Cottee had committed the cardinal sin of having a go at team-mates , so in came Stuart Barlow . |
| 27 | Sort of having a go at us . |
| 28 | The advantage of having a text in computerised form is that you can find things in it very easily using computerised search techniques , and you can do more complicated searches than you ever could with a printed concordance . |
| 29 | I 've also taken the therapy techniques I 've known into women 's groups and they 've adopted methods of having a dialogue in the group and stuff shifted in the group like lightning . |
| 30 | It started to rain so I went down to Apsley House at the bottom right-hand corner of the park with the intention of having a look at the paintings there . |