Example sentences of "[conj] having [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Acts it is a criminal offence for a dealer to offer or agree to give an inducement or reward to another for abstaining or having abstained from bidding . |
| 2 | It was n't a statement she was used to making , or having questioned . |
| 3 | It is true that many experienced abseilers will tackle the steepest descents without any protection or having tied the hanging rope ends together . |
| 4 | It was n't just being in love , or having made love — it was the feeling of being two against the world . |
| 5 | Most of our red deer are feral , having been introduced to or having escaped from deer parks . |
| 6 | If the retaining bar on the main bed is worn , that is , with the sponge damaged , worn out or having lost its spring , you will get problems when knitting . |
| 7 | The fines , donations of money , packets of crisps , biscuits and home-made cakes , were imposed for ludicrous offences : not having clipped the hedge , or having clipped the hedge ; leaving a gate open ; having , or not having , curtains across the windows . |
| 8 | And having arrived in Zurich , or having returned there at the end of a tour round north Switzerland , visitors will probably want to spend a little time in a city about which they have heard so much . |
| 9 | A court , if it wishes to interfere , can always characterise an alleged error as having resulted from asking the wrong question , or having taken account of irrelevant considerations . |
| 10 | There must have been dozens of dead animals lying around , most of them killed by shrapnel or having wandered into a minefield . |
| 11 | On the return from Venice you will again fly ( or coach ) , or having enjoyed three extra nights in a superb hotel in Venice , you will return on the world-famous and exclusively chartered Orient Express train . |
| 12 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 13 | More specifically , in allowing certain individuals the benefits of incorporation the state is viewed as having made a concession or having bestowed a privilege on them . |
| 14 | Dr Arnold lauded the Reference team as much as he did his favourite orchestra , who sat down and played his works without any rehearsals or having read the music . |
| 15 | Rather than having made a fortune in tips tonight , she had actually come up ten dollars short . |
| 16 | The Italian Minister was unable to promise more than having implemented one out of two by the end of the year . |
| 17 | ‘ Other than having worked in property since my teens , nothing . ’ |
| 18 | Although having trained as a general physiotherapist he has always wanted to specialise in sports injuries . |
| 19 | Although having made a " confession " after his arrest , Cheng later retracted it , claiming to have been subjected to extreme pressure by the police . |
| 20 | Dayglo orange , pink or lime green would never make a successful scheme , although having said that , everyone 's taste is different ! |
| 21 | Although having said that , there w there are of course other people who are probably quite very happy in their flat . |
| 22 | although having said that I 'll know that if I do well its mine , its in my own , own work , which I think is probably better because when it comes to it you do n't get any help on the day do ya ? |
| 23 | Now the pace of life is a little slower for Leslie and Helena although having raised three children , two girls and a boy , they now have six grandchildren and five great grandchildren to keep them on their toes . |
| 24 | Although having worked as a contract systems analyst for ICI , Matthew believes that a small company can operate much more efficiently than a large one . |
| 25 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 26 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 27 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 28 | I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend . |
| 29 | Mrs Whitehouse suggests that having achieved what she argues they set out to do — show that the Sexual Offences Act covered all ‘ public ’ acts of gross indecency , including simulated acts in the theatre — it would have been oppressive to have continued a private prosecution against the director of the play . |
| 30 | There seems to be a feeling that having done well one year you should then take a back place in the queue . |