Example sentences of "[noun] having [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Examination findings were confirmed as was the cholestatic nature of her jaundice , the bilirubin concentration having risen to 243 µmol/l ( Fig 2 ) .
2 ‘ When we started we felt that there was room for another East End of London author , having publicised ( in my case ) Lena Kennedy before , and Sue having edited her .
3 In Western Europe it is estimated that new cars will become , on average , 2% more fuel efficient per year to 1990 , Europe 's motor manufacturers having given the commitment to governments to improve the fuel efficiency of their 1985 models by 10% over the 1978 efficiency level .
4 The existing 1987 agreement was considered to have failed , US manufacturers having sold no machines to Japan since its signature .
5 Tens of millions of reprint requests are mailed each year , the authors having identified the existence of the papers from secondary sources .
6 In this connection thought appears to be divided almost on a national basis , English authors having resorted freely to the assumption that the sea is capable of cutting wide platforms in their interpretation of high level terraces , while American and continental authorities have been much more inclined to doubt whether the sea can cut a very wide bench unless there is progressive drowning of the land or unless the sea is merely trimming up a subaerial surface .
7 The hotel was a shell , the roof having collapsed completely , but a few yards of the verandah ceiling remained intact and under it I spent the most wretched night of my life , standing in a dry corner , listening to the drenching rain and howling wind and breathing in the acrid fumes of the recent fire .
8 On Sept. 4 , 5 and 7 , because of the absence of deputies from Khodjent , there was no quorum to confirm a Sept. 2 resolution by the Supreme Soviet Presidium on removing Nabiyev from power , Nabiyev having gone into hiding at the end of August after demonstrators invaded the Presidential Palace , demanding his resignation .
9 There were two more floors above this in the keep , but the chances of Balliol having gone upstairs rather than down were remote .
10 That they went just past the half-thousand was mainly due to Sohail , but the neat little Asif Mujtaba beavered away for 57 , and at tea the score stood at 252 for 2 , Sohail having gone to his century , the first ever for Pakistan in a Manchester Test , with an ondriven three from his 127th ball .
11 Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons .
12 Although a DC is the sole permission required for updating software stored in LIFESPAN , LIFESPAN ensures that it is not granted without all the interested parties having agreed to it .
13 Of course , there have been historical fluctuations in revolutionary activity , as well as considerable variations between societies — with revolutionary parties having had a greater influence in France and Italy than in the rest of Western and Northern Europe or in North America — but the predominant style of working-class politics everywhere has been reformist , directed toward a gradual attrition of the unregulated market economy .
14 In retaliation , the Serbian authorities in Kosovo prevented Albanians who had heeded the strike call from returning on Sept. 4 to jobs in state-owned shops , government inspectors having patrolled towns during the strike to padlock the doors of Albanian-run enterprises .
15 This development was part of a looming trade dispute , the Bush administration having announced on Aug. 21 that unless China removed barriers to the entry of US products into the Chinese market by Oct. 10 , it would impose punitive tariffs of up to 100 per cent of value on Chinese-made imports worth US$3,900 million [ see p. 39051 ; see also p. 38530 for opening in October 1991 of US investigations into China 's trade barriers under Section 301 of the 1988 Trade Act ] .
16 Nathan and I are quite alone , many miles from civilization and , apparently , lost , the wind having blown snow across the tracks ahead suggests that we just let the dogs lead us towards the others , a well-reasoned idea that works perfectly .
17 Reports of his side having struggled to a disappointing home draw with lowly Airdrie will not have been his sole concern as he takes stock of his Scottish investment .
18 Borland 's Interbase Division is bucking up its international side having plucked James Fleming out of Versant Object Technology Inc to ride herd as vice president of worldwide sales and having recruited Tony Bowden , once Unify Corp 's managing director in the UK , to be its vice president , European operations , a new post .
19 Scott Stewart 's superlative defence was the springboard for their recovery from 0-12 adrift against Queensland in the semi-final , the state side having qualified through a grand showing against Fiji where the virtues of strong running and persistent support were never better demonstrated .
20 Team Components Bureau and Streamline Hazlehead meet in the other semi-final , neither side having won the trophy .
21 Reid , playing in a slightly changed side having dropped Michael Sheron to the substitutes ' bench , was unhappy about an earlier , seemingly accidental , challenge on Niall Quinn by Phil Whelan .
22 He was one of their most brilliant scientists , his research having led to some of Algox' bestselling products .
23 Quite apart from nearly a hundred years of intensive research having failed to demonstrate such a cause of functional psychosis , there is another important reason why it is totally inappropriate to draw on analogy with the neurological diseases proper .
24 Efforts were made in late August to arrange for high-level talks in September between the ANC and Inkatha , two weeks of severe township violence in Transvaal having claimed over 500 lives .
25 And , of course , there is no need to learn either a new program or new skills , the latter part of the equation having proved a major stumbling block for many companies eager to improve the quality of their published work .
26 More empirically however , on the other hand , and drawing upon the work of Peter Bürger , Callinicos accepts the case for Modernism having contained a critical moment — a ‘ protest against the capitalist society to which it is in complex ways related ’ ( p. 53 ) .
27 Underlying his bullishness was a feeling of incredulity that Oldfield , one of his oldest friends , should be taking such a step at all , and that Oldfield could have drifted so far away from him without Branson having read the warning signs .
28 All 12 winners having met up the evening before for an Italian meal at The Campana in London 's West End , followed by a night at The Regent Crest Hotel , the second half of the group arrived bright and early at the studio , ready for their transformations the next day .
29 In 1914 he became a master at Eton College , where he remained during World War I , a heart murmur having disqualified him for military service .
30 We should only consider such cases where there is clear evidence of extreme weather and abnormal falls of snow having occurred over a short period of time .
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