Example sentences of "having [be] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was alright to come to your marriage , having been a bit of a one for the girls , but it was n't at all good to come to your marriage having been a bit of a one with the lads . |
| 2 | It was alright to come to your marriage , having been a bit of a one for the girls , but it was n't at all good to come to your marriage having been a bit of a one with the lads . |
| 3 | The effects of the acquisition are not given since it is treated as always having been a member of the group . |
| 4 | I still feel a sense of pride at having been a member of the Three-Ninetieth . |
| 5 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 6 | She then returned to work for JS in 1992 at Watchmoor Park , on the deli counter , having been a customer throughout the decades which saw the development of supermarkets into the modern stores of today . |
| 7 | In 1891 the point was severely reiterated by Dr Maclagan , the Archbishop of York , who was a strong objector to moustaches despite having been a major in the Madras cavalry and who walked ‘ as though he had his loins girded by a sword belt ’ . |
| 8 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 9 | Having been a mathematician in the years gone by , I was amazed at the audacity of the polling companies to state that a sample of 1,000 voters was representative plus or minus three percent of a total electorate of some 43½ million . |
| 10 | Continuity was nevertheless provided not only by Allan Hayhurst but by Dr Eric Stanley Greenaway , who was elected President at the Edinburgh Congress in 1959 , having been a Vice-President of the Association since 1953 . |
| 11 | Having been a soldier in the First World War , he really knows what he is writing about and is a great contrast to some of the pretentious poets who preach about war while they have never seen any violence in their entire lives . |
| 12 | Now , having been the rebel from the NHS , I had turned maverick and become the rebel of Bristol . |
| 13 | In Steele v. Williams , the judgment of Martin B. was certainly on the basis that the money , having been the subject of an ultra vires demand by a public officer , was as such recoverable . |
| 14 | November 1985 saw the retirement of Mr. Joe Blackshaw , who had completed 20 years as Caretaker , having been the groundsman for the previous 20 . |
| 15 | After having been an interloper in the East India trade in 1696 , he was a major investor in the ‘ new ’ East India flotation of 1698 , and was both a director of the company and manager for the united East India trade over the years 1699–1708 . |