Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As many as 90 per cent of the persons arrested under these powers are released without charge after having been detained for anything from four hours to seven days . |
| 2 | Thereafter Miss Logan , despite having been engaged for her experience , confined herself to the cabin . |
| 3 | Wharton turned pro in 1989 with the dubious distinction of having been disqualified in his ABA national final . |
| 4 | Watching her , Trent recalled sailing towards what he had expected to be his death the previous morning on Golden Girl … his sense of deprivation , of having been robbed of his right to a normal life . |
| 5 | Note that there is no reason for anyone to restrain their thoughts or their reflections on the reasons which apply to the case , nor are they necessarily debarred from criticising the arbitrator for having ignored certain reasons or for having been mistaken about their significance . |
| 6 | A superb pâté de foie gras with truffles was served first , and the main course was confit de canard — duck crisp and succulent from having been preserved in its own fat . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Bournemouth , West ( Mr. Atkinson ) must have stumbled into the debate without having been nobbled by his Whips , because he gave a reasonable , rational and consensus-seeking speech , unlike the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) , who gave the House his next election address for 37 minutes , but then proceeded to disappear , as though he is the only hon. Member with a constituency outside central London . |
| 8 | Jean Symonds , one of the women who organized resistance to the men , retorted that " the girls he referred to had been weighed against their will . |
| 9 | It was clear to me that his own personal preoccupations , such as had been conveyed to me by Father D'Arcy and hinted at by others , had cut him off from the workings of certain institutions — his unawareness of Collingwood 's preferment was a case in point — and again he wanted to be informed what the young were thinking . |
| 10 | It is true that marriage is , or may be , a detriment to the plaintiff ; but detriment to the plaintiff is not enough , unless it either be a benefit to the testator , or be treated by the testator as such , by having been suffered at his request . |