Example sentences of "having [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am greatly relieved that the name Hall is now no longer associated with a company which , having all the necessary finance , does not feel it is able to build , for itself , robots that can compete with the world 's best . |
| 2 | Dr Craig-Dunlop , who owns it , prides himself on having all the latest equipment . ’ |
| 3 | Who 's having all the big families today ? |
| 4 | The tawny owl assemblages are intermediate for this character , and although it has not been quantified , it is notable that the skulls present in tawny owl pellets are less complete than those in barn owl or some of the other species listed in Table 3.5 , having only the front part of the vault preserved . |
| 5 | Equally to the point , the spectre of drastic economies that haunts so many men and women is often the result of their having only the haziest idea as to their likely income and expenditure . |
| 6 | The burnished copper shone bravely , having only the previous night survived unscathed a particularly concerted attack upon its person . |
| 7 | Eastleigh is now 5lb better off but he went to Doncaster with the benefit of three all-weather runs this year , and Big Leap , having only the third race of his career there , should confirm the form . |
| 8 | 2 Two or more words normally associating with each other and having much the same meaning as the nominal phrase , eg the very poor , a summit meeting . |
| 9 | Embryonic development is very sensitive to having just the right number of genes and so in females one of the X chromosomes is inactivated early in development , leaving just one functional X chromosome in each cell . |
| 10 | One of these is that of balancing the line — having just the right number of operatives for the various work stations on the line . |
| 11 | She said she was just having just the usual drinking gear and er |
| 12 | But it seems to me to be having just the opposite effect . ’ |
| 13 | It seems Cheltenham 's artistic attempt to engender friendship is having exactly the opposite effect , for the time being at least . |
| 14 | Incidentally , a horizontal dipole without parasitic elements is not unidirectional it is bi-directional , having exactly the same ‘ figure-of-eight ’ response as a ferrite rod antenna ! |
| 15 | Over-sharing e.g. having exactly the same views as your partner or parents about things |
| 16 | Words having exactly the same sound , but different spellings and meanings : To be completely accurate , these are homophones : but homonym is the term in more general use . |
| 17 | There is the same distinction between ‘ consumer deals ’ and others — the distinction having exactly the same effect . |
| 18 | It is in the professions where the use of microcomputers is having probably the greatest impact . |
| 19 | Another example could well be Peter Brooke who , though not having quite the same entrepreneurial approach , certainly had the business instincts and connections to build a significant position for Spencer Stuart in the UK , principally among the more traditional British organisations . |
| 20 | They constructed a circular model , where both parties in a conversation are shown as having virtually the same functions . |
| 21 | Whichever bone it was , it was a crotch in shape ; that is , a forked bone like a wish-bone , and having precisely the same shape as the frog — the horny elastic pad — in a horse 's hoof . |