Example sentences of "having the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system admits of variations , but usually requires the exclusion of the candidate having the fewest votes in each successive count . |
| 2 | Like the exhaustive ballot the STV requires the successive exclusion of the candidates having the fewest votes . |
| 3 | The opinion comes down on widowers having the same rights as widows , although this would only apply to service from the date of the forthcoming judgment . |
| 4 | May we have an early debate on the Government 's determination to prevent part-timers from having the same rights as people who work full time ? |
| 5 | refusing the help of family members and others who prepare " special " meals but having the same meals at the same time and in the same place as everyone else . |
| 6 | Although individual client executives tend to favour dealing with known consultants , if those consultants leave their firms , they are not necessarily then seen in the same light , or as having the same resources at their disposal . |
| 7 | ‘ It is possible they operate individually but are connected by having the same contacts , for instance a dealer in Essex or Ireland , ’ said Det Sgt Elston . |
| 8 | And you know I , I actually had phrases like bra burning thrown at me and erm I I said that feminism to me is about having the same opportunities as men and I put few of the phrases er er you know along those lines and so everybody round the table said well yes I believe in that too , I said well then you 're feminists and so it 's about valuing or devaluing words as well and you know you just made the point about changing words , but how far do we go with this ? |
| 9 | Rock 'n' roll and the movies grew hand in hand , often tackling the same phobias , spouting the same philosophies , having the same fantasies , crossing the same frontiers , inhabiting the same gritty streetlife scenarios . |
| 10 | He sat at his desk looking over the same papers and repeatedly having the same conversations but unable to take decisions or achieve anything . |
| 11 | These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " . |
| 12 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 13 | Ever since the result of the General Election , I have taken for granted that , on Baldwin 's defeat in the House of Commons , the King would send for Ramsay MacDonald ; and I have deprecated any attempt to prevent his having the same facilities which would be accorded to any Minister entrusted by the Sovereign with the formation of a Government . |
| 14 | The Lutheran scholar Robert Jenson chastises Christian feminists for being so foolish as to think that the term ‘ Father ’ is being used univocally ( having the same connotations ) when used of human fathers and of God ; as though to imply that there is sexuality in God . |
| 15 | ‘ You learn unbelievable things about yourself — from the tiniest things like little quirks and mannerisms to something really big , such as why you keep having the same kinds of relationships with people . ’ |