Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , Stoddard Templeton was well known ; all the staff in the department having been on sales training courses at Elderslie , which they recalled with morale boosting enthusiasm . |
| 2 | The score at Dens Park and Parkhead decreed that Willie Miller 's defence has now conceded fewer goals than any other club in the top flight of the Scottish game , the Aberdeen rearguard having been breached only 26 times . |
| 3 | The ‘ 18T was radically different to earlier variants , a totally new fuselage having been designed to give side-by-side instead of tandem seating and first flight is believed to have been in 1967 . |
| 4 | If liberty and equality were birth-rights , it remained only to establish fraternity. : for , fear having been cast out not by perfect love but by plenty , all men could now become brothers and women sisters . |
| 5 | The children did make changes in vocabulary , substituting " changed " for " alternated " for example , and they also changed syntax , preferring a main clause , " When the wool had been cleaned and combed " to " The raw wool having been cleaned and combed " . |
| 6 | Her rent having been enormously increased , because her landlord thought he could get much more from some South American tenants , Ivy began to consider moving . |
| 7 | Cecil made it quite clear that in his opinion , at least , the " strangers " in charge of the works were pretending to act simply and fairly towards the society but were thought to be dealing more for their own " private lucre " than for the benefit of the society , " … this despite diverse great sums of money due by them for rent having been remitted for their better encouragement to carry on the work … " |
| 8 | These horses are part-Arab , part-Basque and part-English , the English blood having been mixed in on the orders of Napoleon 1 , while the Arab strain has been traced , perhaps fancifully , to the horses left behind by the Saracens , who were badly defeated near here in the eighth century . |
| 9 | With turnover having been so sluggish for two years some works at the Biennale had been déjà vu at other fairs . |
| 10 | Rather do children , especially boys , think that there are two possibilities : possession of a penis or a castrated condition , the penis having been cut off . |
| 11 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 12 | The College having been named , the secretary was directed ( it might be thought , somewhat late in the day ) to draw up statutes for its constitution and organisation . |
| 13 | The College having been founded , it was necessary to give it premises and students . |
| 14 | That , his day 's toil having been deferred , he wanders through unfamiliar woods with unsure footsteps . |
| 15 | Before commencing it should be emphasized that when a geologist talks of a volcano having been recently active , he means that it has been active within the last ten thousand years . |
| 16 | Queen 's Recommendation having been signified |
| 17 | Queen 's Recommendation having been signified |
| 18 | Queen 's Recommendation having been signified |
| 19 | Queen 's Recommendation having been signified |
| 20 | Again we have the standard format of the lower tray having been soldered to the upper shell . |
| 21 | Secondly we have not heard of anything that has changed in this county since nineteen eighty sufficient to warrant or justify in this alteration the addition of a policy the effect of which , one one with a similar effect having been thrown out at that time . |
| 22 | With the court having ordered the husband 's interest to be conveyed or transferred to the wife , or agreement to that effect having been reached , it may be that the wife requests or desires that the house be conveyed or transferred to herself and her new husband . |
| 23 | Aims of subject syllabuses were very generalised , no attempt having been made to isolate any specific terminal or intermediate objectives in respect of knowledge , skills or attitudes to be developed . |
| 24 | These consist solely of the ‘ pure ’ text , no attempt having been made to annotate the text . |
| 25 | As the curative curve of a particular remedy comes to an end , the vital force has only the excess artificial disease stimulus of the remedy to respond to — susceptibility having been satisfied . |
| 26 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 27 | This ritual having been accomplished , he fell back against the grass and took Cassie 's hand lightly in his own . |
| 28 | The stables were well built but badly ventilated ( surely not be expected in Coleman 's time , for he was the arch-exponent of adequate ventilation ) a duct-blocking luxuriant vine having been trained against the outside wall of some loose boxes . |
| 29 | ‘ You mean he would n't have liked to be an invalid having been so healthy all his life ? ’ |
| 30 | Years later , Ogwen apprenticeship having been served , we began to aspire to their routes , knees knocking at our effrontery . |