Example sentences of "of [adv] [v-ing] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , the elements which are selected as focal ( them , he , and was ) are not new in the sense of not having been mentioned before , but they are new in the sense of being in some way contrastive . |
| 2 | Well I you 'll forgive me the disadvantage , I 'm not trying to cop out , but the disadvantage of not having been immediately involved is that I have n't seen that quotation from Michael . |
| 3 | The other consequence was that , if Stewart kings did not live and reign until a ripe old age , they had the immeasurable advantage of always having been kings ; most were barely aware , some not at all , of any time in their lives when they had not worn the crown . |
| 4 | And of course there was no question of her having escaped from a mental hospital or of ever having been in one . |
| 5 | Lucker drops out of nowhere having been for a pee . |
| 6 | The Maniots , who trace descent from them , boast of never having been subdued by Slav or Turk . |
| 7 | I know that in the mundane , the thought of never having been understood or recognised rankles ; but the transcendent joy is the greater and I get instead the hidden flowers of sorrow of my own soul with their scent and their beauty . |
| 8 | MacDonald 's assumption throughout the Government and almost up to the last moment was that Baldwin and he would retire together , and that Neville Chamberlain , with the freshness , if not of youth , at least of never having been Prime Minister before , would succeed directly . |