Example sentences of "[that] having " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had insisted all along that we could not return until that was the case and that having waited so long , waiting a little longer would not matter . |
| 2 | The problem here is that having so easy access and the largest concentration of easy routes , it is very crowded at holiday time . |
| 3 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 4 | Looking at those lists provides interesting reading and bears out the used-car trade 's view that having a lead-only car could prove to be a liability . |
| 5 | They fear that having separated post and telecommunications , France Telecom will receive the lion 's share of the budget and may ultimately be privatised altogether . |
| 6 | Elbowing his way through the crowd at the ‘ colonial streetfair ’ inside the Loews Glenpointe Hotel , he said that having paid $500 to get in , he was n't about to leave without being photographed with the next governor of New Jersey . |
| 7 | Ed Wallis , of PowerGen , was the first to openly admit that having paid the piper , he would expect a choice of tune . |
| 8 | So , again I wrote , telling the would-be backpacker that having the survival bag was a bit like taking out insurance — it only became useful if he had an emergency . |
| 9 | The crucial point is that having a great sound is one thing , but being a good subject for an article may be something else entirely . |
| 10 | He must have reckoned that having a back-up trade was always a handy thing when you 're going into something as risky as the music business . |
| 11 | He is not convinced that having read them aspiring managers can go away and teach themselves to be good leaders . |
| 12 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 13 | I know that having a seventy-eight-centimetre leg makes me shorter than average , but Jesus . |
| 14 | As a social worker , I met family after family and the isolation that having a ‘ special ’ child brings was a common theme . |
| 15 | Mr Antonio Matarrese , head of the Italian Olympic Committee , suggested that having the match in Sardinia might be something of a blessing . |
| 16 | There had obviously been a couple of heated arguments , probably to do with the artistic … you know , you get bored with something that you 've done before and you 're working on a new project , and I think he thought that having to wear a suit as opposed to his choice of stage gear can be very nerve-racking . |
| 17 | A detailed inventory of Bruce 's day followed , and McLeish understood that having Catherine Crane working on this case had rattled Bruce in several ways . |
| 18 | We can not say that having faith in Christ makes life easy . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course we are trying to recruit new people to Flockplan , but we are doing so in the knowledge that having a detailed analysis of flock performance and an independent adviser standing at his shoulder , can help a sheep producer improve efficiency and profit enough to recoup the cost many times over . ’ |
| 20 | The Prime Minister also feels that having taken the flak for the longest recession since the war , Mr Lamont is entitled to receive the laurels when the predicted recovery begins . |
| 21 | But the Prime Minister has obviously decided that having ridden the rough waters of the recession , the Chancellor should be given credit for the recovery . |
| 22 | Do n't think that having learned from TV how to say ‘ Hold the mustard ’ will help . |
| 23 | It appears that having agreed on the structure , the meeting did not address the question of functions of the RAC and the development of jointly planned activity , outlined in Green 's original proposals , was ignored and led subsequently to competitive activity in Cambridgeshire , Essex and Norfolk . |
| 24 | We 're sure that having come this far you wo n't want to miss out on anything and we really do recommend you join us on these trips as it can be very expensive if you try to do it all on your own . |
| 25 | There is an accepted wisdom that having parents in school during the working day is a worthwhile and attractive thing to do ; the extra pairs of adult hands are always useful . |
| 26 | I think that having somebody in pram pushing distance , who has recently had a baby can be of great value and at least it means there is help at hand if you need it . |
| 27 | Vic tried to argue that it did n't make any difference how many toilets you had , it was the number of times you flushed them that mattered , but his father was convinced that having so many toilets was an incitement to unnecessary peeing , therefore to excessive flushing . |
| 28 | For a long time it was felt that having kiddies was the answer to a woman 's complete fulfilment . |
| 29 | You will gather I mean it caught me unawares , and in fact it disturbed me that having a bit of a wobbly on something as simple as this did not bode well for the Devil 's Ridge , which The Munros book described as a section where ‘ some may welcome the security of a rope ’ . |
| 30 | In a recent MORI survey , only 52 per cent of those questioned thought that having sexual relations with someone who is married to someone else was morally wrong . |