Example sentences of "had the courage " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've had the Courage Magazine and it 's got a write up of the er the May , our craft thingy at er |
| 2 | Others who have had the courage to stand up and be counted include Miss Doina Cornea , a former professor of French , now on hunger strike in the ethnic Hungarian city of Cluj ; Mr Gabriel Andreescu , a geophysicist in Bucharest ; and Mr Mirca Dinescu , a poet , also in Bucharest . |
| 3 | Italians have had the courage to vote for a greater decency and sense of public accountability , though they know the road to reform will be bumpy and uncertain . |
| 4 | Primatologist Hans Kummer , professor at the University of Zurich , confesses that , while anyone who knows monkeys is aware that ‘ a single social act such as a scream may serve widely different goals … we have not usually had the courage to face the task of differentiating , but dutifully entered the act into our record sheet as what it clearly was : a carefully defined and carefully counted scream . |
| 5 | Anyone who has had the courage to do that is ready for the next stage . |
| 6 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 7 | Bits of Meccano lay around waiting to be pilfered if I 'd had the courage . |
| 8 | Christ , how he wished he 'd had the courage to ask her to marry him before all this . |
| 9 | This official was furious when it appeared that Oslear had spoken to media men about his determination to back Palmer and Hampshire , as well as Lamb , the only England cricketer who has had the courage to take on the cricket establishment . |
| 10 | So far only Allan Lamb has had the courage to speak out — and he 's been hammered with fines totalling £7,000 , costs of £1,000 and a two-match ban . |
| 11 | They will at first be assailed after meetings by colleagues saying ‘ Good for you ’ and ‘ I wish I 'd had the courage to say that ’ and ‘ That 's just what I think . |
| 12 | I hope that after his next public performance of Odyssey , Simon Rattle will be encouraged to take this amazing score and hold it high in honour of this wonderful composer , of whom we know so little , who has had the courage to write such stirring and inspirational music , at heavenly lengths , in our time . |
| 13 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 14 | He knew that if he had had the courage he would have vowed then and there never to go back , but such courage was not his yet , but was it so bad for a man who could make no sense of how he had come to be where he was to rest his fate on the unknown course of an eagle 's life ? |
| 15 | If you 've had the courage and tenacity to run through them all , you 'll have a good grasp of how to set up Windows and its groups and icons , how to manipulate windows ( resizing , closing and so on ) , how to use the File Manager , and much more . |
| 16 | If only she 'd had the courage to tell him she wanted to end their relationship when the cracks had first started to appear . |
| 17 | You attempt things you previously would not have had the courage to do because you know you possess the power to save yourself ’ . |
| 18 | I have n't had the courage . |
| 19 | Nearly two months had passed since the last crisis in their relationship — the night they had seen Bicycle Thieves — and still neither of them had had the courage to face its implications . |
| 20 | Married or unmarried , he would not have had the courage of his proclivities : he needed the pretence there had been because pretence was everything to him . |
| 21 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |
| 22 | Merrill watched him covertly , wondering if she would have had the courage to sit here if she had known that he would come in ; wondering if she would have joined another and more distant club had she known that he was the commodore here . |
| 23 | She might live to rue this impetuous decision , but at least she 'd never look back with regret on what might have been if only she 'd had the courage to dare . |
| 24 | ‘ Many of us felt he should have had the courage to admit that the job was n't working out instead of using his reputation as England manager to negotiate a lucrative overseas contract and then leaving everyone high and dry without a second thought . |
| 25 | In our day and age , can you think of someone who has been so full of the Spirit that he 's had the courage to preach even when his own life was at stake ? |
| 26 | Someone who 's had the courage who knowing that what they were saying was upsetting powerful people , still taking that risk and saying what they felt to be true and just ? |
| 27 | Typically , the Government have had the courage to concede by implication that they have lost confidence in what they legislated for so confidently just a short time ago . |
| 28 | No-one seems to have had the courage to make a clear decision on the project . |