Example sentences of "having [been] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been a diehard opponent of freeing the serfs , he was very interested indeed in continuing the fight for noble rights through the medium of the courts . |
| 2 | Following dissension over the appointment to a professorship at Aberystwyth in 1919 ( connected in part with his having been a conscientious objector during the war of 1914–18 ) he withdrew from his academic post in order to study in the faculty of science at the University College . |
| 3 | The government had vetoed the proposal in late July , the abolition of automatic wage indexation ( which would have covered 85 per cent of the workforce ) having been a principal element in the government 's anti-inflation programme announced in March [ see pp. 37312-13 ] . |
| 4 | HAVING BEEN a regular reader of your magazine for a few years now , I have been most interested in the regular updates on the progress in restoration of Bf 109G G-USTV . |
| 5 | The public bar was a large L shaped room , one half of the L obviously having been a separate snug before the modernisation . |
| 6 | Rugby , five times the cup-winners , were their second-round victims , Brian 's brother , Robert , having been a key factor in the first-round dismissal of the holders , Shrewsbury . |
| 7 | He called on their respective governments to cut their public spending by up to 18 per cent , to exercise monetary restraint ( banknote issuing by local authorities having been a major factor in the inflationary spiral of the previous year ) , and to co-operate more fully with national policy decisions . |
| 8 | He was a past committee member of Selkirk Rugby Football Club , having been a keen player in his youth . |
| 9 | The Scottish wildcat is still being hunted despite having been a protected species since 1988 , according to a report from the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland . |
| 10 | He was chairman of the Friends of Glenalmond and , having been a strong supporter of the Territorial Army , had recently been appointed Honorary Colonel of 32 ( Scottish ) Signal Regiment ( V ) . |
| 11 | The Republic of the Philippines became independent in July 1946 , having been a Spanish colony until 1898 when the islands were ceded to the United States . |
| 12 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 13 | Samuel Sharp writing in 1847 says : ‘ There is evidence … of its having been a Roman settlement in the time of Agricola , and that his legions established here a permanent encampment , the remains of which are clearly traceable even to the present day . ’ |
| 14 | HAVING BEEN a close follower of The Lone Groover and loon pant ads in the NME of the '70s , I had formed a lasting impression of The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly as an impenetrable fortress of wit , intellect and sneering clever-gits . |
| 15 | Furthermore , " The Governors inspected the School building and the darkness of the large room having been a frequent source of complaint and of expense in the use of gas [ for lighting ] , Captain Sykes offered at his own cost to employ an architect and have the windows lowered to a suitable height . " |
| 16 | It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century . |
| 17 | The gymnasium , swimming pool and even classrooms have been given a new lease of life as part of a timeshare development — such facilities having been a positive attraction to buyers . |
| 18 | New editor Alan Lewis was a veteran of the weekly rock press , having been a senior writer on Melody Maker and editor of Sounds during its late '70s glory days . |
| 19 | He regards this somewhat gruelling routine as having been a vital part of his training . |
| 20 | There was nothing unusual in this , visits to and from relatives having been a common feature of my childhood . |
| 21 | The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was proclaimed in March 1956 , having been a British dominion since the partition of the Indian Empire in August 1947 . |
| 22 | The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was proclaimed in March 1956 , having been a British dominion since the partition of the Indian Empire in August 1947 . |
| 23 | In whatever way it is financed , such investment is regarded by some as having been a direct loss to the domestic economy and as such having contributed to Britain 's poor investment record [ Singh , 1977 ] . |
| 24 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 25 | Having devoted much of his career to the personnel function and having been an ardent advocate of participative management , he talks about such problems with an obvious depth of feeling . |
| 26 | ‘ An old family name , ’ he told his wife , though this was not true at all , his uncle 's being thus christened having been an isolated instance of the use of Hilbert . |
| 27 | Deep mining has ended in Ayrshire , after having been an important part of the economy of the county for hundreds of years . |
| 28 | The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago was declared in 1976 , the country having been an independent member of the Commonwealth since 1962 . |