Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan of the ‘ villa ’ thus exhibits unusual features , the main focus apparently having been on bathing and eating . |
| 2 | On the weekend Aug. 22-23 three African migrants were found drowned near Tarifa , apparently having been dumped offshore [ see also p. 38982 ] . |
| 3 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 4 | The family was clearly influential , perhaps having been helped by his brother who was archbishop of Canterbury , and a third brother was an alderman , although he never became mayor . |
| 5 | These men who , with their fists , knocked others insensible , the art of doing so having been passed down as a necessary part of their growing up , had evidently never had to deal with a fainting female before ; and when the big , fat , enormous-breasted woman came into the kitchen , bawling , ‘ What the hell d' you think you 're at ! |
| 6 | He had had a long and tiring journey , flights from Frankfurt , Heathrow and Glasgow all having been delayed or cancelled . |
| 7 | The decoration around the windows and along the string-course is delightful , the corbels especially having been sculpted into a strange and compelling variety of animals , monsters and more or less human figures . |
| 8 | Behind them he saw a pair of horses , obviously having been warned off , turning to ride through a field , the colours of the riders ' helmets very bright against the pale , cold , February sky . |
| 9 | A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post . |
| 10 | The public bar was a large L shaped room , one half of the L obviously having been a separate snug before the modernisation . |
| 11 | ‘ Obviously having been a player here I desperately hope the club can pull out of trouble . ’ |
| 12 | Only part of this extensive cloth and flock mill remains , much having been destroyed by fire . |
| 13 | I 've served on that one , and the whole business of the organisation has generally speaking been run by the executive and not by a full council . |
| 14 | anyway having been |
| 15 | Nothing to do with the suicide , of course , just having been there . |
| 16 | In our case , it was never a simple matter of trust , once having been won , being taken for granted , as the textbooks suggest . |
| 17 | It 's hard to imagine Mr Fogg , for example , ever having been a train-spotter : if there was any train-spotting to be done , Mr Fogg would have despatched his loyal French manservant Passepartout to do it on his behalf . |
| 18 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 19 | Marie could not remember ever having been inside a hospital before . |
| 20 | Indeed , I do n't recall league ever having been mentioned . |
| 21 | And of course there was no question of her having escaped from a mental hospital or of ever having been in one . |
| 22 | We were held in total secrecy , without any contact at all with the outside world and without ever having been charged or tried . |
| 23 | The field had not been ploughed for at least 80 years ( probably not for more than 150 years ) and there is no record of fertilizer or herbicide ever having been applied . |
| 24 | This controversy , usefully outlined in the Report of the Committee on One-Parent Families ( Finer , 1974 , Vol. 2 , pp. 136–47 ) crystal-lises the state 's dilemma of how to deal with women who , by ‘ failing ’ to play the part expected of them ( i.e. by ending their marriages or by having a child without ever having been married ) find themselves without the support of a man . |
| 25 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 26 | If a worker-led bid came forward and there were employees within a company who had drive , initiative and new ideas about how it could be run more successfully and provide more services at no cost to the public purse , why should they , in effect , be disqualified without their case ever having been studied by those who are supposed to study the bids ? |
| 27 | Léonie had discovered that , without ever having been taught a single rule of grammar , she spoke the language perfectly . |
| 28 | One has to concede that successive Conservative Governments have accepted rulings from Brussels on , for example , social policy , the regulation of working practices and the straight-forward geographical reallocation of wealth which it would be hard to imagine ever having been proposed as part of a domestic Conservative programme . |
| 29 | There is no record of a dram-bottle from Darwin ever having been in the family ; there is , however , a beautiful silver compass inscribed ‘ Mr. Gould from C. Darwin Esq ’ . |
| 30 | A biologist at Cornell University , Quentin Wheeler , has warned that large numbers of insect species are becoming extinct without ever having been studied , due in part to a shortage of entomologists . |