Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 After having been broken by torture , the poor Nepomuk was bound and thrown into the Vltava from Charles Bridge .
2 As many as 90 per cent of the persons arrested under these powers are released without charge after having been detained for anything from four hours to seven days .
3 One of their champions the prominent politician Jack Ashley , who remains an elected Member of Parliament after having been deafened at the age of forty-five , expressed their feelings in a speech delivered in 1973 : the deaf must adopt a very different attitude to society as a whole …
4 But after having been short headed by On The Other Hand in the Punchestown Festival Handicap in April of that year , The Committee developed a ‘ leg ’ after having been struck into .
5 At least ten pit bull terriers have been destroyed after having been collected by the dog wardens .
6 He arrived with Archbishop Wallenstein , after having been trained in Rome and worked on the palace in 1676 .
7 Any EC national may now reside in any member state to seek or take up employment , accompanied by his family ( Directive 68/360/EC ) , establish firms or provide services ( 73/148 ) and remain in that territory after having been employed in that State ( 70/1251 , 72/194 ) .
8 That was when the islanders voted to join Canada rather than resume the status of ’ responsible government ’ after having been run for 15 years by a commission from the United Kingdom .
9 In this report we investigated fluid transport in rats on days 6–9 or 11–14 after having been injected with the larvae .
10 The lure of the stripe , even after having been put through every possible variation and contortion , remains irresistible for many artists .
11 My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany .
12 Personally I can almost almost remember the days when erm Ulysses was a bound book only to be read in plain cover after having been smuggled through the customs at Folkestone , Dover or Newhaven .
13 It was in this connection that Sir John Ross [ q.v. ] speaks of him in his Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez ( vol ii , 1838 , p. 72 ) : ‘ Captain , afterwards Admiral , William Mitchell , an officer who had risen to the rank of rear-admiral by his good conduct , after having been flogged round the fleet for desertion . ’
14 He had fled Romania after having been accused of helping anti-government demonstrators in Bucharest and after having survived what he claimed were three assassination attempts .
15 * Southern Japanese fishermen drove about 1,000 dolphins back into the sea after having been informed by the government that they were rare Fraser 's dolphins .
16 The test data was as before ( i.e. documents taken from the domains of banking , estate agents and music , after having been processed by the confusion simulator ) .
17 If a group of young people , from all races , all countries and bearing all creeds were gathered together after having been introduced to the concept of the Created God , and were able to set aside , for the time being , their own taught beliefs , they would find that they had been offered an area of religious discussion which would be on completely neutral ground .
18 All other Palestinian higher-learning institutions had been reopened after having been closed at various times since the intifada started .
19 The two counties met in last year 's Ulster final at Armagh and in one of the best games seen in the province all year Tyrone came from behind in the second half to pull off a memorable victory after having been reduced to fourteen players .
20 The draft Union Treaty was debated in the USSR Supreme Soviet and approved on July 12 by 307 to 11 votes with 18 abstentions , after having been approved by eight of the nine republican parliaments but not by that of Ukraine .
21 While Hocazade was at Iznik , where he had been sent after having been removed from the kadilik of Istanbul through the machinations of Karamani Mehmed Pasa , he had occasion to come once to Istanbul .
22 In all cases , a small number of items were supplied to readers after having been removed from another reader 's reserve shelf .
23 A Swiss representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) , Alexandre Ghelew , 27 , was released by guerrillas in Kabul on Aug. 18 after having been abducted on Aug. 6 .
24 Clothing and footwear volumes were particularly hard hit last month , after having been boosted by heavy price discounting earlier in the year .
25 Most of the prisoners have been mutilated , with the loss of a hand or foot , for having fought again after having been pardoned for fighting with Negus Mikael .
26 The good news is , therefore , that despite having been beaten by better sides , improvements are certainly to be expected .
27 MATLOCK TOWN , the HFS Loans League team , are still in the FA Trophy - despite having been defeated in the first round .
28 Trotsky and the ice-man had been his attempt to solve the problem of why he was still alive despite having been shot in the head .
29 Thereafter Miss Logan , despite having been engaged for her experience , confined herself to the cabin .
30 The Duke arranged for a long avenue Or lime trees to be planted alongside a driveway leading from the main road that ran westward from London ( Chiswick High Road ) and sweeping into his Chiswick House grounds and , despite having been cut in two by the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension , it still remains as Dukes Avenue .
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