Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] be [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only part of this extensive cloth and flock mill remains , much having been destroyed by fire . |
| 2 | One has to concede that successive Conservative Governments have accepted rulings from Brussels on , for example , social policy , the regulation of working practices and the straight-forward geographical reallocation of wealth which it would be hard to imagine ever having been proposed as part of a domestic Conservative programme . |
| 3 | The cabinet was in the celebrated Ashburton collection , probably having been acquired by Francis Baring , Third Lord Ashburton ( d.1882 ) on his marriage in 1833 to Hortense Eugenie Claire , daughter of the Duke of Bassano , who may have acquired the cabinet while French Ambassador at Naples in 1793–94 . |
| 4 | But immediately monitoring is coming into play here , if I was your manager , but the computer will do this by the way , but your manager will spot that and say , have you made those fifty calls . |
| 5 | Laura 's Beau was third last year but has been in rotten form since then having been plagued by blood trouble . |
| 6 | He was only a few minutes late having been caught in traffic on a motorway . |
| 7 | The Maniots , who trace descent from them , boast of never having been subdued by Slav or Turk . |
| 8 | Er the reason want referring because has n't commenced it 's considered er view and the last thing we want is to be in business actually doing is enclosing on St Albans and anything that St Albans does n't actually want . |
| 9 | Most commonly sieving is used for size determination in the pebble and sand ranges , i.e. particles coarser than 0·063 mm . |