Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is submitted that in the former case the approach would probably be modified by the basic duty of fidelity to the extent that confidentiality would be lost only if the employer could be said to have shown wilful disregard to the quality of the confidence , rather than having been merely negligent . |
| 2 | Some forty-five years after my visit to Preston I was talking to a business acquaintance who , although having been based in Southampton for many years , had never lost his Lancashire accent . |
| 3 | This is a practical guide to real-time programming , the programs provided having been tested and proved . |
| 4 | It 's as if having been a victim once , you suddenly realise you could be vulnerable again . |
| 5 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |
| 6 | I am not upset by people dying because having been there I do not fear death . |
| 7 | Provided the gift is at least £600 it will be regarded as having been paid net of basic rate tax . |
| 8 | Some see the conflict as having been crystallised by Proust , who wrote an attack on the critic Sainte-Beuve in 1908 ( though it was not published until 1954 ) . |
| 9 | The desert valley in which the complex is located , known as the Wadi Qelt , is referred to in ancient rabbinical sources as having been ‘ flooded by the blood ’ of the rebels . |
| 10 | COURAGE is the keyword this weekend , even among the nit-pickers who may have noted that the league sponsors ' official directory lists today 's third series of matches as having been played in midweek on 4 October . |
| 11 | He regards this somewhat gruelling routine as having been a vital part of his training . |
| 12 | The press have played a major part in popularizing spectator sport and sustaining interest in it , but it is misleading to think of professional football , for example , as having been created or manufactured by the media . |
| 13 | I look back upon this household as having been — after [ Edward ] — the strongest influence in my life . |
| 14 | We do not , Locke points out , punish a person for what he did when temporarily insane , and we speak of him as having been ‘ not himself ’ or ‘ beside himself ’ . |
| 15 | The connection between the visible and the tangible is conceived by Berkeley as having been set up by God . |
| 16 | This was the theme ingeniously exploited by Poe in his tale , The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar , in which a semblance of life was related as having been preserved in a man mesmerised when at the point of death . |
| 17 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |
| 18 | The celibate woman was seen as having been freed from the ‘ curse of Eve ’ , to bear children in sorrow and to be under the domination of the male . |
| 19 | In a very small percentage of cases someone was described as having been a Free Presbyterian . |
| 20 | But the perambulating jury dismissed these proceedings as having been made under duress of Hugh Despenser , then Edward I 's Justice of the Forest . |
| 21 | She regarded herself as having been battered by uncontrollable forces , washed up in hostile , foreign waters against jagged rocks . |
| 22 | And the past to which you are so resolutely attached — I suppose you regard it as having been ideal ? |
| 23 | The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely . |
| 24 | The impact of the migrants has varied from country to country , but two areas which stand out as having been profoundly affected throughout the continent are housing and employment . |
| 25 | He represented her as having been extremely swarthy , and quite emaciated , with a long crane-neck , and a short body , much resembling , in shape , a bass-viol . |
| 26 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |
| 27 | The contacts between the Lemass and O'Neill governments were seen as having been brought about by pressure from Britain , and as a result ‘ O'Neill has got his orders to play down discrimination ’ . |
| 28 | The use of water cannon was criticised as having been unnecessary and for affecting members of the public who had not been involved in the march . |
| 29 | Gide was perceived as having been too closely allied to the psychological novel in the French tradition of the roman d'analyse . |
| 30 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal accepted his argument , albeit reluctantly , saying that , in the experience of the members deciding the case , in practice a redundancy ‘ is accepted as having been shown where it is demonstrated that the actual job which the claimant was carrying out had ceased to exist ’ . |