Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The elections in the Baltic republics , unlike in the rest of the Soviet Union , were held on a genuinely multiparty basis , constitutionally guaranteed Communist Party ( CP ) monopolies having been abolished in the past three months and new parties having been allowed to form for at least the past year . |
| 2 | The formal mature of organisation structure reflects the fact of goals having been identified and the criteria of achievement specified . |
| 3 | If a Bill is passed by the Commons in two successive sessions having been rejected by the Lords , it can be presented for the Royal Assent provided that one year has elapsed between the date of its second reading in the Commons in the first session and the date of its passing by the Commons in the second session . |
| 4 | Some doubts having been expressed about the validity of her divorce in America , I caused enquiries to be made and received from my American agents copies of the decree of divorce which was issued on 7 April 1961 . |
| 5 | In the period 1 January 1988 to 30 June 1991 , 2 , 370 in-patient discharges were admitted as emergencies having been assaulted by a cutting or piercing instrument . |
| 6 | This generalisation conceals wide variation , however , the heaviest losses having been in Merseyside , Manchester , Cleveland and parts of Scotland . |
| 7 | Building and sculptures certainly underwent repairs in antiquity ; but a theory that the present order of the metopes is due to a rearrangement before Pausanias 's time , the six Peloponnesian labours having been originally together on the west , the others on the east , seems to me unnecessary ; indeed certainly wrong , since I find a stylistic distinction between the two ends as they are which cuts across the geographical division . |
| 8 | With all eyes having been on the Government , Labour can get away with one conference like this one . |
| 9 | He was the eldest son , his two brothers having been killed in the Great War . |
| 10 | Candidates having been selected , and with no reference to that imaginary balanced slate , how does the Irish voter choose between them ? |
| 11 | There were reports of opposition supporters having been fired on in Tbilisi the following day . |
| 12 | Excavations have uncovered positive proof that between 10,000 and 25,000 years ago it was a wild beast 's den with bones of extinct animals having been found in the stalagmites on the cave floor . |
| 13 | This is just a weighted mean of two values , the weights having been computed previously . |
| 14 | The North-East Gateshead annual open junior meet at Felling on Saturday ( 9.30am , 2 and 6pm ) and Sunday ( 9.30am and 2pm ) is again over subscribed with 2,000 entries having been accepted from 21 clubs and over 600 refused . |
| 15 | Jan. 8 Suspension of airlifts as fighting worsens , over 460 foreigners having been evacuated by US and Italian aircraft on Jan. 5-6 . |
| 16 | Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan . |
| 17 | First candidate enrolment in the new system will thus take place in September 1990 , units having been prepared and validated during session 1989–90 . |
| 18 | It is not advisable for an expatriate and family to arrive in Britain without some steps having been taken in advance to arrange accommodation . |
| 19 | If neither of these provisions applies , the affidavit must be sworn by a person having direct personal knowledge of the means adopted for service , and must specify the steps which have been taken to serve the demand , the means whereby ( those steps having been ineffective ) it was sought to bring the demand to the debtor 's attention , and the date by which , to the best of the knowledge of the person making the affidavit , the demand would have come to the debtor 's attention . |
| 20 | The number of demands that a parent or child will make can depend on their past experience of those demands having been met or be the result of a pattern of behaviour that has evolved due to other problems , that is child 's poor concentration span , or mother 's irritability due to depression or an unhappy marriage . |
| 21 | Saunders was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment but in the event he served only ten months having been released on the grounds that he was suffering from a dementia condition akin to Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 22 | South Birmingham Health Authority has admitted the treatment was ‘ unnecessary ’ and there was a ‘ slim chance ’ of other errors having been committed at the hospital . |
| 23 | This diversity and range was nowhere better demonstrated than in our six prestigious national lectures : The first of these lectures having been held in Sheffield , this second was held in Tynemouth and Bill Oakes , Chairman , Northern Section , and his committee are to be congratulated on the 200-plus members and guests that came to hear what Alan had to say . |
| 24 | Rear seat belts remained intact and attached , with no signs of distress or marking indicative of the belts having been highly loaded , except for a failure of the left seat belt buckle . |
| 25 | Accordingly , there is no possibility that any moneys paid into the account by Barclays Bank Plc. or Kleinwort Benson Ltd. would still be there now , the last payments made by those parties pursuant to the interest rate swaps transactions having been made in September 1989 and September 1987 respectively . |
| 26 | Compared with the case in which A and B have not been pre-trained , the consequence of A-X and B-Y associations having been pre-established would be that a new response could be acquired very readily by stimulus A without any increase in the extent to which generalization occurs to stimulus B. |
| 27 | gold 's value has been maintained over the centuries due to the limited quantity of new supplies ( maximum output , at the present time , 1,000 tonnes per annum ) , only about 100,000 tonnes having been mined since 4,000 BC ; |
| 28 | Capron talked about hundreds of lives having been lost . |
| 29 | The fact that the structure revealed enables analysis to proceed is taken as sufficient evidence of the right elements having been extracted . |
| 30 | The only relaxation in such cases must be that the Admissions Committee will not insist on the passes having been attained by the date the applicant left school . |