Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Newspaper announcement , June 1794 : ‘ The public are most respectfully informed that Mr Edmund Bond ( late a Pupil of the Veterinary College ) has undergone an Examination before the Medical Committee , and the following is a Copy of their Report : These are to certify that Mr Edmund Bond has attended the Veterinary College as a Resident Pupil for Eighteen Months , and having been examined by us , we consider him as qualified to practise the Veterinary Art . |
2 | He received his certificate which stated : ‘ These are to Certify that Mr Edmund Bond has attended the Veterinary College as a resident pupil for 18 months and having been examined by us , we consider him as qualified to practise the Veterinary Art ’ . |
3 | Once occupied and having been carried to its destination , the coffin opened at the bottom and the occupant was dropped into the grave . |
4 | He was a very nice young man and did bear some small resemblance to me which I supposed was why his mother , perhaps not knowing who his father was , or knowing but having been abandoned by him , had woven this fantasy about a familiar figure from the television screen . |
5 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |
6 | I am asking the Court further , in the event that it considers itself so empowered , to treat the case as having been referred to it by me under section 17(1) ( a ) . ’ |
7 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |