Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately before the rate cut was made public , the FTSE index of the 100 biggest companies was down 4.4 points at 3031.0 having been 10.8 lower at its worst in early dealing . |
| 2 | Some speculative builders boomed in these conditions , few having been active prior to the 1920s , though their characteristics suggest some link or other with housebuilding : |
| 3 | About 400 sick conscripts were discharged ( this having been one of the demonstrators ' demands ) , as were those who had served 18 months of their two-year service . |
| 4 | There were reports that Iraq had received another Russian system , the SS-21 , though specialist circles are uncertain about this and arrival was not independently confirmed — perhaps the confusion arose from the last digits of the SS-12 having been inverted . |
| 5 | She won one victory in January 1981 when a palpable ‘ wet ’ , Norman St John-Stevas , was removed as Leader of the House ( where he had been a conspicuous success ) , while younger men like Leon Brittan and Kenneth Baker were promoted , the latter having been one of Heath 's campaign managers in 1975 . |
| 6 | And now Dennis Gray has weighed in with a second version of his ‘ Life as a Climbing Tyke ’ — the first having been that marvellous tale of human bondage from 20 year ago , Rope Boy , or ‘ How I survived an apprenticeship with Joe Brown and started to love climbing ’ . |
| 7 | French producers had demanded that Japan should limit its sales to a maximum of double the number of EC-built cars sold in Japan , the actual ratio in 1988 having been 11 to one . |
| 8 | With the FTSE staging a modest recovery to be 6.5 down at 3032.1 having been 16.5 off immediately dealing began , City analysts believe the 100-index will fall to the 3000 level if the weakness on the New York stock market continues . |