Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [v-ing] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excavations have uncovered positive proof that between 10,000 and 25,000 years ago it was a wild beast 's den with bones of extinct animals having been found in the stalagmites on the cave floor . |
| 2 | The principle of regional autonomy having been legitimized in the Republican constitution , the Statute was finally approved by the Cortes in September 1932 . |
| 3 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 5 | The worst scarcity was in coal , some forty per cent of French production having been lost owing to the German invasion of the Lille area , and the population shuddered at the approach of each winter . |
| 6 | The amendment also provided for the election to public office of independents and candidates put forward by " organizations with recognized representation " , and allowed for the recreation of the post of Prime Minister ( the functions of this post having been taken over by the President in 1979 ) . |
| 7 | This diversity and range was nowhere better demonstrated than in our six prestigious national lectures : The first of these lectures having been held in Sheffield , this second was held in Tynemouth and Bill Oakes , Chairman , Northern Section , and his committee are to be congratulated on the 200-plus members and guests that came to hear what Alan had to say . |
| 8 | Thirty-one had been discharged by 1983 but with six of these patients having been transferred to a general hospital for physical illness and having subsequently died . |
| 9 | Ukraine and Poland denied any territorial disputes , despite much of eastern Poland having been incorporated into the Soviet Republic of the Ukraine under the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 [ see pp. 3749-50 ] . |
| 10 | In South America , the mahoganies , Swietenia spp. , were much sought after , so that today , they have suffered through genetic erosion to such an extent that often they are not worth exploiting , only those of poor form having been left in the forests to set seed . |
| 11 | Even so , the result of the tournament was conclusive : Kustow 's champion had triumphed five-nil , two of those games having been won by a margin of more than twenty stones . |
| 12 | The number of demands that a parent or child will make can depend on their past experience of those demands having been met or be the result of a pattern of behaviour that has evolved due to other problems , that is child 's poor concentration span , or mother 's irritability due to depression or an unhappy marriage . |
| 13 | ‘ The chance of any child having been infected is extremely remote , ’ he said . |
| 14 | We assume once more than unc have dominant moduli , any eigenvalues of greater moduli having been removed by deflation etc . |
| 15 | We assume the roots to have dominant moduli , any roots of greater modulus having been removed by deflation etc . |
| 16 | South Birmingham Health Authority has admitted the treatment was ‘ unnecessary ’ and there was a ‘ slim chance ’ of other errors having been committed at the hospital . |
| 17 | There were indications that some articles had been taken from the Soviet Union 's constitution but there was little evidence of other constitutions having been consulted except , curiously , for the Meiji constitution in Japan . |
| 18 | Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan . |