Example sentences of "having [be] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the second major concession by the President , the first having been to abandon his election campaign pledge of no new taxes . |
| 2 | I do not know if this triumphant wrongdoing owes anything to the example set by Ivy in Elders and Betters , by which I am conscious of having been influenced myself . |
| 3 | Having been synthesized it has to be transported to the part of the cell in which it is required ; there it will remain for its lifetime of hours , weeks or months until it is due for renewal , when it is pulled out of place in the cell and broken down by enzymes as quickly as it was previously synthesized , its building blocks ( the amino acids ) being recycled in the synthesis of other proteins . |
| 4 | By the end , with an extended sermon on the emptiness of individualist ethics , he is pleading for a return to the benevolence in public affairs which Thatcher can not supply by nature of having been denied her mother 's breast , given the wrong sort of potty training , etc . |
| 5 | Having been denied their statutory right as British citizens to enter Britain , those East African Asians who were actually being kicked out of East Africa were offered the chance to queue for quota vouchers for entry to Britain . |
| 6 | He replaced the receiver , having been given his new instructions . |
| 7 | Sir Alan is a graduate of the University , having been awarded his BSc in 1939 and his PhD in 1942 . |
| 8 | Having been awarded your degree you then complete the Academic Stage of Training by means of the Common Professional Examination or recognised alternative . |
| 9 | Having been awarded my red beret , I went on to RAF Brize Norton where I completed seven parachute jumps and was awarded my ‘ wings ’ . |
| 10 | He would insist on checking our observations before we sent them to Group on the teleprinter , and this we regarded as a deadly insult , most of us having been doing them unchecked for over three years . |
| 11 | Part of , part of the furniture , yes what do you want , there 's no problem with parcels , and so again it becomes far less difficult to discuss erm , a business conversation , and sometimes it 's a conversation about football , and they 're all a load of complete , because that 's part of , er , that 's one of the joys of er , er , having been doing something for long enough to have got known within the , within the patch . |
| 12 | Now having been discharged they 're convalescing from surgery with a family in Oxfordshire away from the glare of publicity . |
| 13 | Two refused to talk , having been told they were being recorded ( which is mandatory procedure at the Beeb and quite rightly ) . |
| 14 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 15 | Having been told I was special from a very young age , you believe everything is possible , but I also knew that you got nothing unless you worked hard . |
| 16 | From the hearing , which took ninety minutes , Willis emerged visibly shaken , having been told he must wait five days before hearing if he was to go to prison or not . |
| 17 | Grunte then asked them whether they had heard the one about the Norwegian woman who had bought her son three shoes , having been told he had grown a foot ; a sally which was met by universal groans . |