Example sentences of "[prep] having [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us will try anything to ease ourselves of the pain of having been unsatisfactory children . |
| 2 | According to The Famous Grouse Director , Matthew Gloag , the company 's interest in the next year 's tournament in Edinburgh had been almost a foregone conclusion due to the enormous benefits of having been involved in the 1991 World Cup . |
| 3 | He gives the strong impression of having been practical and conciliatory , a man who inspired confidence in those with whom he had dealings . |
| 4 | It has often been said that heads are recruited largely on the basis of having been successful classroom teachers and are therefore appointed to a new task on the basis of their ability in a different job . |
| 5 | Even the novelist George Gissing , who was ‘ no friend of the people ’ and who was the most scathing critic of so many aspects of the new popular culture , has his fictional alter ego Henry Ryecroft recalling the pleasures of having been young in London , of the public houses with their ‘ pints of foaming ale ’ and the supper bars with their ‘ sausage and mash ’ , of the theatres where one could ‘ roll and hustle with the throng at the pit-door ’ , and of walking home singing as he went . |
| 6 | However , she gave no sign of having been aware of its presence , and watched with interest while he pointed to a red line that wandered over the map . |
| 7 | He starts with the disadvantage of having been wrong in the past . |
| 8 | Once home , he sought scapegoats for his evident failure by dismissing his treasurer and chancellor , who had not , he argued , provided the backing he needed and deserved , and by turning on John Stafford , archbishop of Canterbury , whom he suspected of having been responsible for the lack of success . |
| 9 | ‘ Who 's dead ? ’ she repeated , irritably because she was ashamed of having been scared . |
| 10 | Since patronising behaviour always contains a curious element of innocence , Boswell was inflated with pride , ‘ elated by the thought of having been able to entice such a man to this remote part of the world ’ , and his tongue , thus loosened , flicked out a memorable simile of himself . |
| 11 | True , this was a meal of which he was very fond ; but on the other hand he usually did the bulk of his office work in the afternoon , and I was conscious of having been instrumental in seriously holding this up . |
| 12 | It confronts ambiguities , including the guilt feelings of having been unfaithful in transient affairs ; casual encounters which now seem a pointless betrayal . |
| 13 | In 1723 , for example , the member of parliament for Stirlingshire was John Graham of Killearn , the chamberlain of the Duke of Montrose , a man chiefly remembered for having been relieved of the duke 's rents at pistol point by Rob Roy MacGregor . |
| 14 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 15 | I felt so proud of my father for having been such a fine craftsman . |
| 16 | She even apologized for having been poor company on the journey . |
| 17 | She apologizes to Thrift for having been angry , then remembers that it was Thrift that had dictated her previous parsimonious , sparing applications , and is confused . |
| 18 | We do not condemn him for having being successful , but we do condemn a social security system which is prepared to help Mr Deaves indefinitely when other struggling families who do not meet the DSS 's criteria are thrown out of modest homes . |
| 19 | Allied to this comes guilt : guilt about being such a wimp ; guilt about being so secretive ; guilt about having been such a bitch or a bastard ; guilt about all the things not done ; guilt about mistakes and errors of judgement ; guilt , in other words , about Not Being Good Enough . |
| 20 | Liza said something about having been ill so that she herself did n't go out much . |
| 21 | Andrew Cunningham , who had been fortunate in having been one of the men brought up to the surface to erect a fence round the subsidence , volunteered to go back down into the unknown to search for his missing colleagues . |
| 22 | But however enjoyable , reading about islands is nowhere near as rewarding as visiting them , and I consider myself fortunate in having been able to spend some time on the north Atlantic islands of Iceland , the Faroe Islands and that most remote of the British islands , St Kilda . |
| 23 | If no-one admits to having been sick during the day , or ca n't produce a witness that he was , we shall want to know what they all ate for the evening meal . |
| 24 | At his trial in September 1989 , Suh Kyung-won testified to having been ill-treated during his interrogation and said that he had been forced to make false statements under duress . |
| 25 | In an age when sin and madness were so strongly associated , the only reason for confessing to having been insane would be that complete recovery showed divine forgiveness of whatever sin had caused the madness in the first place ; and this is the reason advanced by the two mediaeval authors who admit to having been mad , Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve . |
| 26 | In an age when sin and madness were so strongly associated , the only reason for confessing to having been insane would be that complete recovery showed divine forgiveness of whatever sin had caused the madness in the first place ; and this is the reason advanced by the two mediaeval authors who admit to having been mad , Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve . |
| 27 | While no-one likes to see anyone lose his job the Glentoran Board are to be congratulated on having been decisive at such a vital time for the club . |
| 28 | Dr Paul Alexandre died in 1968 without having been able to write the book he would have liked to dedicate to Modigliani . |
| 29 | About two days later she did die , without having been ill or , I understand , having shown any sign of failing . |
| 30 | She was indeed inexperienced in teaching RE having been unhappy with what she had hitherto been expected to present . |