Example sentences of "having [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Howell submitted that Parliament having expressly dealt with the case of an admissions policy designed to preserve the character of the school in subsections ( 3 ) ( b ) and ( 6 ) , it was not open to the school ( even though over-subscribed ) to apply such a policy under section 6(3) ( a ) in selecting the applicants who were to be rejected . |
| 2 | Having successfully seconded through the Task Force one manager to refurbish industrial estates in Knowsley and Kirkby , United Biscuits promptly closed a food-processing plant at Knowsley with the loss of 2,000 jobs . |
| 3 | The guilt people feel at having perhaps contributed to the illness or accident can be overwhelming . |
| 4 | Having gingerly discarded over a hedge bits of rotted fruit and suspect cheese , I lunched on olives and mineral water in the shade of a great oak wood . |
| 5 | Rebel Ruddock emerged as the players ' spokesman for Venables , speaking up for him in the High Court yesterday , having already slapped in a transfer request to Sugar . |
| 6 | Having already written for the NME for several months as the transvestite sex-poet Susan Williams I was nervous , a straw sucker acting brash in a den of sophisticates . |
| 7 | In 1856 French secretaries of embassy and legation were divided into three classes and it was ordered that no one was to reach the third and lowest class without having already served as an attaché for three years , while everyone must spend at least three more in each class before being promoted to a higher one . |
| 8 | The Regent desired him , as proposer of the scheme , and as having already served with the Earl of Dunbar , to accompany Sir Simon Fraser down to the Earl 's camp near Berwick , there to help that man inform Dunbar of the decisions made and to assist in convincing him to take over the keepership of Berwick Castle . |
| 9 | His second son succeeded him as a clothier , his eldest son , Sir James , having already moved into the ranks of the landed gentry . |
| 10 | From Cassell comes Richard Bird 's Complete Book of Hardy Perennials ( June , £20 , 0 7063 7076 7 ) , the same author having already appeared in the Batsford list with Propagation of Hardy Perennials ( March , £19.99 , 0 7134 7062 3 ) . |
| 11 | It seems reasonable to infer from the above that numerous corporate executives , having already responded to the situational demands necessary for career mobility within an organization by displaying sufficient degrees of competitive ambition , shrewdness , and moral flexibility will experience a further development of these characteristics when they have to respond to the relatively unaccountable and unconstrained power of being at or near the top of a large national , but especially transnational corporation . |
| 12 | In the fourth of these lectures Freud , having already dealt with the importance of infant sexuality in relation to the body , turns to the emotional relationship between those who care for the baby and the child himself . |
| 13 | First , all the suppliers are preparing superior but incompatible 16-bit versions , including the Nintendo Super Famicom and the Sega Megadrive ( the latter having already arrived as an unofficial import , at £200 ) . |
| 14 | The other day I bought the enchanting ASV CD of clarinet Concertos by played by Emma Johnson and read the notes only as an afterthought this morning , having already listened to the disc several times . |
| 15 | Rumour has it that The High had all been living separate musical lives — Andy in particular having just split with the Stone Roses — when they met in Manchester 's Hacienda club , and decided to put a new band together … |
| 16 | HAVING just struggled through a copy of the Maastricht Treaty I can only scratch my head that anyone would wish to sign it . |
| 17 | The Australians even refused to sing their traditional victory song at the end of the Adelaide Test , having just gone to an unbeatable 3–0 series lead . |
| 18 | It was a notable achievement by 24-year-old Stich , who has slipped from third to 15th in the world rankings since his 1991 Wimbledon triumph , while Krajicek , with the biggest serve in the world game , is the up and coming star , having just moved into the top 10 . |
| 19 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 20 | When he came back , his face was so strained with worry that I felt the sting of another guilt , and I smiled properly ( having just finished with a not-too-terrible pain ) and put out my hand to him to show him I was better . |
| 21 | I got the news of the fall of Shatila in London , having just returned from a fund-raising trip in the Gulf countries . |
| 22 | I write this having just returned from a meeting in Frankfurt of the Council of the Federation of European Credit Management Associations ( FECMA ) . |
| 23 | yes , the schools group , yes , I mean , that , that could operate more , in fact we could have , instead of having just talking about the , about the India one , er instead of having one person at it , it could be a group of , of three perhaps , er . |
| 24 | It was , I think , my first real understanding of what being spoiled meant , in more than one way , and it gave me a lifelong horror of over-dressing which , having just glanced through the photo-albums in search of an illustrative self-portrait , I seem to have conquered only too well . |
| 25 | The Great St George team of the 1950s and 1960s , the team that produced Gasnier and the great lock Johnny Raper ( famous for having once walked through the streets of Ilkley wearing nothing but a bowler hat and a tie ) , was the team that introduced scientific cover defence . |
| 26 | For four centuries after the Renaissance , Europe — and only Europe — developed modern science , despite having once lagged behind the Arabs and the Chinese . |
| 27 | Having early disposed of the false idea that in the Middle Ages people believed in a flat earth , Lewis tells us to look at the sky itself . |
| 28 | The Interior Minister , Arie Der'i , the Moroccan-born leader of the Shas , was alone in the new Cabinet in having also served in the outgoing Likud government ( also as Interior Minister ) . |
| 29 | It 's twenty to twelve , erm Y D P just really erm having now come to an end . |
| 30 | Er , the I I also make the point , that er , my understanding is having now talked to a number of the other C A B's , that in fact they were looking to Thamesdown money advice centre because this money was actually to replace funds that previously had been er , available through the Allied Dunbar sponsorship scheme , and which has , which I gather was withdrawn er , at very short notice , and they were looking to Thamesdown to er provide that support and resource as a county resource , and I I therefore felt that it was right to bring it forward . |