Example sentences of "having been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was , perhaps , less than worthy of his literary immortality : in 1800 the vicar of Over Stowey , having been cheated in a deal over some turf , called him ‘ as rascally faced fellow as ever I met with ’ . |
| 32 | These now have good marginal vegetation and their dams produce small waterfalls , the preferred nesting sites for Grey Wagtails which are widely distributed in this limited habitat , some 193 pairs having been recorded in a survey in 1967–69 , mainly in the Lower Greensand and High Weald areas . |
| 33 | The device mentioned earlier that produces ‘ mechanical speech ’ would contain all the words of English , each having been recorded in isolation . |
| 34 | The mere fact of having been cast in the role of daughter , daughter-in-law , son or son-in-law does not automatically endow any of us with the ability to play that part to perfection , particularly when it begins to need more than smiles and pleasantries at family gatherings , and demands qualities of patience , perseverance and insight , and the regular visiting of a lonely and possibly disabled old person . |
| 35 | And if two actresses can survive having been cast in the same part and still go on to be friends , they can survive anything . |
| 36 | He arrived with Archbishop Wallenstein , after having been trained in Rome and worked on the palace in 1676 . |
| 37 | Not having been trained in school formalities , there is no reason why they should associate her test questions with the need to make explicit answers , or why they should pretend that the questioner is not there as the ‘ detached ’ answer requires . |
| 38 | Having been trained in Institutional Management I still like to keep my hand in by catering for private functions such as weddings and christenings , and I intersperse this with occasional cookery demonstrations for women 's groups in the area . |
| 39 | This having been confirmed in writing , two things occurred : first , the Security Council 's adoption of Resolution 686 , to reinforce the cease-fire ; and , second , the outbreak of the revolts in Iraq reviewed earlier in the chapter . |
| 40 | Wharton turned pro in 1989 with the dubious distinction of having been disqualified in his ABA national final . |
| 41 | Now his eyes were bright and he stood straight and strong , the whole incident having been relegated in his mind to the unimportant , the not-to-be-remembered . |
| 42 | Alured was ruined by the civil war , his house having been destroyed in the fighting . |
| 43 | I arrived breathless and late , having been delayed in what seemed heavier traffic than usual . |
| 44 | The church was deconsecrated in the early nineteenth-century and converted into a warehouse , at which time its art treasures were moved out to the Brera where they still remain , despite the church having been reconsecrated in the twentieth-century . |
| 45 | Another possible bath-house has already been mentioned , having been discovered in the excavation in the High Street in 1961–2 . |
| 46 | For example , in an important case where a murderer claimed an inheritance , having been named in the will of his victim , judges invoked the moral opinion that someone ought not to profit by their crime ( 23 ) . |
| 47 | The English news , inserted at 1315 , was more up to date , having been prepared in the late morning . |
| 48 | Disillusion set in as awareness spread that the Government had its own agenda , much of the groundwork having been prepared in opposition by a Labour Party study group which shortly before the election had published a report titled Crime — a challenge to us all . |
| 49 | Some forty-five years after my visit to Preston I was talking to a business acquaintance who , although having been based in Southampton for many years , had never lost his Lancashire accent . |
| 50 | He was the eldest son , his two brothers having been killed in the Great War . |
| 51 | On Aug. 17 a gunman killed two off-duty civil guards in the Basque town of Oyarzun , bringing to 622 the total of apparent ETA victims in 1992 , 18 of them having been killed in the period January to March . |
| 52 | In the 1991 Chairman 's report it made clear the fact that the Buckfastleigh Branch having been leased in 1991 to the South Devon Railway Trust , showed only the fare income for the Paignton branch , hence a fall in turnover from the 1990 season , which included the fare income from the Buckfastleigh branch . |
| 53 | Swindon having been beaten in the League Cup recently by Bicester , erm looked as though they were going to make a real match of it today when they scored in the eleventh minute . |
| 54 | The Portadown Local Preachers ' Meeting is older than the Circuit , having been formed in 1835 . |
| 55 | However , of the first 100 notified to the Commission ( but such notification is haphazard , and may not therefore be representative ) as having been formed in the first 14 months after the EEIG Regulation came into effect on 1 July 1989 , a rough pattern emerges . |
| 56 | Since 1945 the government has in effect alternated between the Labour and Conservative parties , the present Conservative administration headed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher having been formed in 1979 and re-elected in 1983 and 1987 [ see pp. 29645 ; 32262 ; 35269 ] . |
| 57 | The position of the beads in the grave normally suggests they were worn on a necklace , but a case can be made for some having been worn in the hair . |
| 58 | The principle of regional autonomy having been legitimized in the Republican constitution , the Statute was finally approved by the Cortes in September 1932 . |
| 59 | Among the hardest hit industries were motors , where Ford and Vauxhall on Feb. 7 announced cuts of over 2,000 jobs and around 300 respectively to take effect mostly from late 1992 ; aerospace , with BAe announcing on Feb. 12 some 2,350 job losses in its military and regional divisions ; coal , with several pit closures or staff reductions having been announced in January , and with a prediction by Malcolm Edwards , then British Coal 's commercial director , on Feb. 19 that the corporation could be slimmed down to possibly as few as 12 pits in the next two years ; and steel , where on Jan. 8 British Steel had confirmed the closure by September of the remaining part of its huge Ravenscraig plant in Scotland , with around 1,200 job losses . |
| 60 | In September , open hostilities having been resumed in Gascony , Isabella , Mortimer and the prince , accompanied by a small force of Hainault and German troops , crossed from Dordrecht to East Anglia and were soon joined by dissident magnates and prelates . |