Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Having since been taken to see the poor man 's body , in the mortuary , I am certain that I did . ’ |
| 2 | Having eventually been persuaded to slow down its clean stall occurs , after lots of buffet and some aileron snatching , at a little under ninety knots . |
| 3 | Many probably pre-date the solar system , having perhaps been protected inside comets . |
| 4 | Roamers of the countryside , surprise was their chief weapon , great daring being shown in what some regarded as the finest military feats of all , the capture of walled towns and castles which were then ransomed , having perhaps been used in the meanwhile as bases for military activity further afield . |
| 5 | However , as we have seen , central government , who through the SEC has boldly pressed on with the introduction of the GCSE , has even in doing so been subject to its own and its advisers ' demands that Standards should be preserved . |
| 6 | The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ( known as Transjordan until 1949 ) formally attained full independence in 1946 , having hitherto been administered by the United Kingdom under a League of Nations mandate . |
| 7 | And having long been supported by the institution he will be crucially aware that it expects a degree of loyalty verging on deference or acquiescence . |
| 8 | Both had been returned by huge majorities , having long been out of office . |
| 9 | Many were given three faces , the number three having long been sacred . |
| 10 | It is now difficult to imagine it wending its way towards the City through open fields , the river itself , like so many of its mills , having long been engulfed by the suburbs . |
| 11 | THE news that Peter Cranmer after having long been confined to a wheelchair , has had both legs amputated in Brighton General Hospital will sadden all who recall with admiration that famous sporting figure of the 1930s . |
| 12 | Green belts have been the major instrument of planning in fringe areas , having long been advocated by leading planning theorists such as Unwin and Howard . |
| 13 | In March 1944 the U.852 was on patrol off the west coast of Africa : she was the fifth U-boat to have been given this area of patrol , the previous four , commanded by aces such as Wuppisch and Schultz , having all been sunk by aircraft . |
| 14 | Edward recalls this attitude clearly among the Swindon-Welsh cronies of his paternal grandmother : ‘ They used to remark how well my father was doing , my grandfather who had long been dead having only been a fitter ’ . |
| 15 | Having already been severely admonished by his father , the young man despaired of finding any sympathy or understanding from his immediate family , always , however , with the exception of his mother . |
| 16 | When first setting up a fence it takes time to adjust the three wires at the tackle end so that they are under equal tension ( the far end having already been secured to a strong chain link , which in turn is fastened to its anchorage ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Small numbers of units which cut across traditional subject boundaries could be designed — one such unit on transport having already been produced . |
| 18 | L2164 was set on fire , having already been damaged during the previous attack on 7th. , and was ultimately sunk after efforts had been made to tow it ashore . |
| 19 | Final assembly is the stage in the car production process when the welded steel car body , having already been painted , is brought together with the engine and transmission , and all the components and trim are attached to it to make up the completed car . |
| 20 | She had died in giving birth to Selene , having already been nearly ruined by the birth of Dinah . |
| 21 | Newcastle was under no illusions , having already been identified in monitoring as one of those labouring with targets . |
| 22 | And AC Milan is expected to beat Marseilles on May 26th in the final of the European Cup , having won all the qualifying matches and having already been European champion twice in the past four years ( see table for its total performance over recent years ) . |
| 23 | Having already been struck by the intensity and depth of colour of Aquacryl , I turned this to my advantage . |
| 24 | ‘ Picasso et les choses ’ , the exhibition of Picasso 's still-life work curated by Jean Sutherland Boggs , opens at the Grand Palais at the beginning of this month ( 3 October-28 December ) , having already been shown in Cleveland and Philadelphia ( see The Art Newspaper No.15 , February 1992 , p.8 ) . |
| 25 | The Gazette was sold in August 1915 , the Pall Mall Magazine having already been sold in 1912 . |
| 26 | In April 1947 he was appointed a lord of appeal in ordinary , having already been granted in January a hereditary peerage in recognition of his work at the international tribunal at Nuremberg ( 1945–6 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ What 's more , I see a great many men here whom I recognise as having already been convicted of vagrancy offences . |
| 28 | On the same day the first indication that such dialogue was already under way came with the announcement that evacuation of Armenian and Russian refugees and servicemen 's families from Baku had been suspended after the Popular Front had agreed to guarantee their safety ( more than 30,000 people , including most of Baku 's Armenian community , having already been evacuated in the previous 10 days ) . |
| 29 | On Oct. 21 it was announced that the last of the nuclear reactors at Greifswald would be shut down by mid-December 1990 , three other reactors there having already been closed during 1990 . |
| 30 | The bill , attacked by opponents as the most liberal abortion law in any state , was passed by 84 votes to 52 , having already been approved by the State Senate on Feb. 12 by 29 votes to 18 . |