Example sentences of "having [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second charge accused him of having between the same dates — July 1 and August 20 , 1993 — attempted to force Mr McIvor to refrain from giving evidence at the trial of Stephen Wilson . |
| 2 | The anniversary of Pinochet 's coup which overthrew President Salvador Allende in 1973 , still commemorated as a public holiday on Sept. 11 ( the Senate having for the third consecutive year rejected a bill to abolish this holiday ) , was marked by a 21-gun salute by the military . |
| 3 | A year ago , having for the previous five years been one of the quietest incumbents of the Quirinale Palace , Mr Cossiga announced his intention ‘ to shake a few pebbles out of my shoes ’ . |
| 4 | And you have some way of , of , of getting in , erm and you have some way of controlling access therefore into toilets , now I do n't know whether that would totally it , overcome the vandal system , but I mean if your saying a pass would n't be any different than a coin you could devise an entrance , so that it was n't , you know , so that what you would be doing is stopping having like the total open access all the time , you know , erm . |
| 5 | The discussions that the Minister of State , my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Grantham ( Mr. Hogg ) is now having with the Baltic states are taking place in a constructive atmosphere . |
| 6 | ‘ The problem you 're having with the new keel , of course . ’ |
| 7 | This is coupled with a situation where the local authority , having in the first place backed a particular scheme such as mink-farm construction on Trondra , is reluctant to make a U-turn in its attitude for fear of incurring compensation costs . |
| 8 | And although it will grea , greatly help some women , unfortunately some women are unable to tolerate it , the side effects it gi , it gives them are worse than the actually symptoms they 're having in the first place . |
| 9 | So we 're having in the first instance |
| 10 | Christians , having in the sixth century finally rejected the concept of reincarnation , were thrown back upon two main arguments justifying God 's ways to man , neither of which is altogether convincing . |
| 11 | Sturt had already considerable experience of the countryside around Adelaide , having in the previous year explored much of the land to the south of the Murray River , and crossed the Mount Lofty range on his overland expedition from Sydney to Adelaide . |
| 12 | ‘ The expression ‘ mercantile agent ’ shall mean a mercantile agent having in the customary course of his business as such agent authority either to sell goods or to consign goods for the purpose of sale , or to buy goods , or to raise money on the security of goods . ’ |
| 13 | New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer 's speech to the United Nations General Assembly that month called for a global ban , and spelt out the effect that drift-netters were having on the fragile fishing-based economies of the South Pacific . |
| 14 | Hortensia paused to observe the effect these remarks were having on the two titchy ones . |
| 15 | If three or more of the above statements regularly apply to you , you probably need to think about your emotions and the effect they are having on the other aspects of your life . |
| 16 | To find out what effect all this burning may be having on the upper atmosphere , particularly upon global warming , the Brazilian space institute , in collaboration with NASA from the United States , has been carrying out a research programme . |
| 17 | ‘ I also reminded the meeting of the effects the speculation was having on the commercial activities of the Football League . ’ |
| 18 | She was enjoying the effect she was obviously having on the local population . |