Example sentences of "having [be] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However she was unable to attend , having been under house arrest in Burma which is ruled by the military , for the past four years . |
| 2 | She will say : ’ Having been through music school , I 've seen so many people who really play their instruments — I mean , they did n't just plug in and press a button . |
| 3 | I 'd just like to raise a point that erm most men are psychiat , er mo most of the psychiatrists are men and that a lot of the diagnosis I feel , come from a very sort of patriarchal view erm , you know a lot of have sort of brought up the alternative sort of er medicine and er self-help groups , and to me , having been through psychiatry which is a , a huge machine that is very difficult to get out that er to me , that 's the only future and there 's millions of pounds going into psychiatry and we 're reviewing it now with community care plans which , I I do n't think anybody is actually clear about but er , you know , the the millions that are put into psychiatry , I 'd like to see more sort of counselling er , become available or , more money given to sort of er mental health associations . |
| 4 | As she wheeled her bicycle down the vicarage drive , she had a purely professional sense of having done nothing , but nevertheless of having been of use . |
| 5 | Having been to confession and passed through ‘ the wall of fire ’ , Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope , ‘ the suggestion about an orgy of egoism turns out , like all the Enemy propaganda , to have just a grain of truth in it , but I have no doubt that the proper method of dealing with that is as I intend to do , to continue the practice . |
| 6 | but they 're not actually , having been to lunch and |
| 7 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 8 | He had come in early , not having been to bed , and placed his information on Coffin 's desk . |
| 9 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 10 | Without having been to college or tech or university , an IBMer at Greenock can take an MBA . |
| 11 | The Captain , having been at work since the call from the hospital at six , had not had time to read the morning paper . |
| 12 | In those patients who are identified as having been at risk of sudden death a number of therapeutic options should be considered . |
| 13 | It , it 's only part of , of the pattern , but it 's obviously er a good sign because er Iran has reason to know er what Saddam Hussein is like , having been at war with him for eight years — totally un , unpredictable man and a completely ruthless man . |
| 14 | Tim would almost certainly deny having been on board and there was already no one to corroborate her story about the disturbance in the lounge . |
| 15 | Chang , the sixth seed , was clearly exhausted by the two-and-a-half hour match after having been on court for nearly four hours on Friday when he beat Russian Andrei Chesnokov in the quarter-finals . |
| 16 | Market specialists are convinced that at least three major deals , having been on ice for months , are now all set to roll , helping S G Warburg rise 64 to 538p , Hambros add 22 to 238p and Kleinwort Benson gain 19 to 238p . |
| 17 | It is at least possible that their features came from their father 's side of the family , judging from an anecdote which Herbert told of having been on holiday at the Cape as a young man . |
| 18 | With the short notice Lesley was unprepared for this event , having been on holiday the previous 2 weeks , and was disappointed in her own performance but enjoyed it as an international event . |
| 19 | Scholar also suggested Venables turned down the chance to sign Mark Hughes when he was released by Barcelona , having been on loan to Bayern Munich . |
| 20 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 21 | At a meeting on 1 September , the " Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union " was described as having been in existence for some nine weeks . |
| 22 | and Thorpe J. No complaint was made by the appellant that Form N79 did not specify the findings of fact , the appellant having been in court and well aware of the position . |
| 23 | I am writing to apologise for not having been in touch to arrange a time to visit your new editing facility in Wellington Square . |
| 24 | Apologies for not having been in touch for so long . |
| 25 | Despite having been in touch with many agencies , they 'd only had five applicants so far — four of whom had been absolutely hopeless . |
| 26 | but erm he was on about certain aspects that he picked up from her , but having been in gypsy caravans round here , as when they were on Line Brook you see we were always at Line Brook for one reason or another |
| 27 | By the same token the cinema industry in America , which has dominated the twentieth century and contributed more than any other force to the primacy of the visual image , does also create new audiences for books which are sold as ‘ the book of the film ’ despite their having been in print as classics for many years . |
| 28 | Given his head at the Republican convention of 1952 he accused the Democrats of having been in charge of ‘ twenty years of treason ’ , a phrase which stuck , much to the Republican advantage . |
| 29 | The party had adopted its current name only in 1965 , having been in power since 1959 following the 1958 revolution . ] |
| 30 | In October 1944 the Leaders faced the problem of redecorating the Primary School room which had been handed back to the church after having been in use during the War as a First Aid Post for a unit of the St John 's Ambulance Brigade led by Miss Mary Lutton . |