Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as we have seen , central government , who through the SEC has boldly pressed on with the introduction of the GCSE , has even in doing so been subject to its own and its advisers ' demands that Standards should be preserved . |
| 2 | Having always been sceptical of such high figures for repairs being bandied about , we commissioned our own structural survey which , more reassuringly , estimated the cost of urgent repairs to be £250,000 . |
| 3 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 4 | So , having consistently been right about why and how the Tories would win , I was wrong when it came to the point . |
| 5 | Clearly they can not accommodate both Taylor and Williams , but Alec Evans is though to fancy the latter as captain , having previously been impressed with him playing club rugby in Queensland . |
| 6 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |
| 7 | Having recently been involved in the revision of about 20 standards dealing with the analysis of iron , steel and ferro-alloys for the British Standards Institution ( BSI ) , I have just learned that in all these documents the spelling of sulphur is to be altered to sulfur , for the element and in the names of all its derivatives . |