Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supposed it was the effect of being famous — or having been famous — being wary of your privacy . |
| 2 | Section 11 of the Act authorises police officers to arrest anyone they suspect of being or having been involved in terrorist activity . |
| 3 | The history of the whole of the Church shows that having been full to overflowing in times of crisis , in times of war for example . |
| 4 | ( FCA ) of , having been found guilty of misconduct contrary to Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in Cardiff between 26 March 1991 and 4 February 1992 purported to exercise a lien over the papers of his former client when he was not entitled to do so and having been guilty of a breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( ii ) in that he in Cardiff between 22 May 1991 and 4 February 1992 failed to deal properly and promptly with professional enquiries from Chartered Accountants in respect of the affairs of his former client and having been found guilty of a breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he in Cardiff between 17 December 1991 and 4 February 1992 failed to provide information required of him by the Investigation Committee on 17 December 1991 in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) concerning the affairs of his former client was reprimanded , fined £750 and ordered to pay £l , 000 by way of costs . |
| 5 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |
| 6 | It 's a , it 's a fascinating report and having been involved in the Food Forum discussion , when we , it was reported to us that we 'd actually lost a community nutritionist , I read this with great interest to see just how now the professional was seen through sections . |
| 7 | Finn lives in a small place in America , and having been poor , still lives in the same way . |
| 8 | It was flat , and having been open for only fifteen years , was not criss-crossed with sewers , gas and water pipes which otherwise would have required costly re-location . |
| 9 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |
| 10 | However , the Commission adds that a total of 139 ‘ public officers ’ were ‘ recorded ’ as having been involved in human rights abuses , including torture . |
| 11 | The issue resurfaced almost immediately , however , in the form of a sexually explicit interview published by the Star ( a supermarket tabloid which had originally published the Nichols allegations ) , with a state employee , Gennifer Flowers , one of the woman named by Nichols as having been involved with Clinton . |
| 12 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |
| 13 | One question which arises from the conclusion that bridging inferences are falsely identified as having been present in a passage concerns when such inferences are drawn . |
| 14 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
| 15 | The use of water cannon was criticised as having been unnecessary and for affecting members of the public who had not been involved in the march . |
| 16 | This is another welcome return as having been available running under SuperCalc 5 there has been a period in which this was no longer available . |
| 17 | Not only did the occupiers introduce gin to the island , which remains one of the locals ' most popular drinks , but in 1813 cricket was recorded as having been first played in Menorca by the surgeon of HMS Scipo — a match which received the patronage of Admiral Lord St Vincent , the Commander in Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet . |
| 18 | So the practice has been to regard them rather unofficially as having been satisfied if there is compliance on about … three occasions out of four , or four out of five , or two out of three — practices are variable from one authority to another . |
| 19 | Factors such as the availability and characteristics of labour are seen as having been important at certain periods ‘ until the early 1970s ’ ( ibid. ) , but not as being fundamental . |
| 20 | And the past to which you are so resolutely attached — I suppose you regard it as having been ideal ? |
| 21 | Nor can Hewlett be dismissed as having been lucky and got it right first time : it did n't . |
| 22 | In this manner certain aspects , at least , of the process of permissive change are presented as having been positive and beneficial , in direct contrast to the view of the conservative-historians . |
| 23 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 24 | They did not really want Edward du Cann- he was recognised as having been disloyal to Ted Heath , and his City activities , with Lonrho and Keyser Ullman , were not universally accepted . |