Example sentences of "having [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discussions at the end of each lecture were animated and sometimes a little heated , for Hindu students , Muslims and Buddhists were a little critical at having to attend any Christian lecture and were very emphatic that they much preferred their own religion to that of Christianity . |
| 2 | Having developed such plant-specific skills , a worker will not be in a position to find a job of equivalent pay elsewhere , and so this factor , too , ‘ integrates ’ the worker into the plant , in the sense Mallet uses the term . |
| 3 | Sheppard died in 1937 without having developed any clear idea about what could be done to prevent war , apart from renouncing it . |
| 4 | It is known as ‘ The Key of England ’ , having guarded this vulnerable coast against invasion over many centuries . |
| 5 | The castle is known as the ‘ Key of England ’ having guarded this vulnerable coastline for centuries . |
| 6 | Having consulted all available evidence and carefully examined it for reliability , the historian has to decide , judge , evaluate and interpret in a final summary or synthesis . |
| 7 | Having heard that , and secondly due to your patience er through your patience getting clarification that it the borough could if it wished allocate its sixty hectares under this structure plan policy outside the town centres and that things that then took place in town centres would be extra , it 's not something they have to do but it 's a freedom they would have in their local plan , having heard those two things , the concern I 've got that even at sixty hectares , Harrogate 's allocation was too small erm really recedes very quickly sir , and would completely disappear and here Mr Allenby and I are at one , |
| 8 | As well as coping with that , she was also having to include some thorough and painstaking work on the Palmer & Pearson file which Naylor Massingham had handed her on Tuesday evening . |
| 9 | Having lobbed this nauseating gobbet of news , her mouth opens wider and wider . |
| 10 | ‘ No , Mister Tom , ’ said Willie , feeling deeply relieved at not having to pretend any more . |
| 11 | Recently there has been notable self-criticism among senior economists for not having given much more attention to the problem of income determination within the framework of Keynesian analysis [ Meade , 1982 ] . |
| 12 | The man , having given another quick , furtive glance round , darted to the fence along the Botanical Gardens . |
| 13 | To see the drake in full breeding plumage is quite rare , the dark brown and white plumage and graceful , curving tail-feathers , some nine inches in length , having given this attractive bird its alternative name of ‘ sea pheasant ’ . |
| 14 | He got quite angry at the impossibility of Clarissa having given any such instructions . |
| 15 | Having completed this basic indoctrination , the budding smallholder will know better the joys and frustrations , the rewards and risks , the freedom and the discipline that make up farming . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) Companies are often at their most vulnerable after having completed some major restructuring which has caused profits to dip . |
| 17 | Now , having completed some 30 dulcimers ( and many other instruments ) , he has refined his designs and can make an even better one . |
| 18 | retired at the end of December 1992 having completed some 20 years service with and latterly . |
| 19 | My cataract operation has been moved forward a fortnight for the rather odd reason that the hospital is ‘ having to cancel all non-urgent operations in October ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Surely having come all this way , you wo n't leave without seeing her . ’ |
| 21 | Having come this great distance to intercede for her father , she now seemed instead to be constantly arguing with his shade . |
| 22 | Having carried this initial point , the Woodvilles then proceeded to dig in militarily and financially . |
| 23 | Having carried this initial point , the Woodvilles then proceeded to dig in militarily and financially . |
| 24 | Yes , I suppose so , having to come all this way out and there are not many clinics . |
| 25 | By 1909 then , Picasso and Braque had initiated the first phase of Cubism ; the art which both painters were producing was the result of a new freedom which arose from their having discarded all scientific systems and theories . |
| 26 | ‘ I am sorry that at some stage you will find yourself having to meet this additional burden . ’ |
| 27 | Erm , this was in fact something you know , coming from , I think the feminist movement and very much a a it was quite new for middle class women to go out and work , and you know they are now aghast that they 're you know , having to juggle all these things but these were traditions that had in fact , been handed down . |
| 28 | I 'm sure he was , but the last few years when I knew him he 'd gotten a lot of respect from people and he was n't having to struggle any more , and I think he knew the people loved him and he liked that . |
| 29 | Bush ended the primary process having won all 38 of the Republican contests , matching the record established by Richard Nixon in 1972 and Ronald Reagan in 1984 , both of whom later won landslide victories in the presidential elections . |
| 30 | The second approach is by examining ways in which the parties pay , but without having to find such large sums at the time of the litigation . |