Example sentences of "[v-ing] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Georg Latzelberger , was destroyed in a forced-landing having been hit by both fighters and A.A. fire . |
| 3 | Bigger groups are likely to find economic recovery patchy and it could take time for higher earnings and dividends to feed through to investors ; while the more volatile smaller businesses , having been hit harder on the way down could spring back faster , Hardman says . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Baines received minor injuries having been hit by his wife with an artificial tree , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most entertaining tale came late afternoon , with anonymous telephone calls stating that a nosey employee of Marks & Spencer ( down 1 at 329p ) having been called in to deputy chairman Clinton Silver 's office , saw a piece of paper suggesting the retailer was set to bid the debt-laden supermarket group , Asda ( off ½ at 31p ) . |
| 7 | Having been called and commissioned , then came the course of action , or the programme that followed the call . |
| 8 | But having been called and commissioned , we should expect the programme to take shape . |
| 9 | The routine at this stage never varied It was unlikely that he would find it necessary to leave his office until the time came to visit the missing girl 's parents and in the meantime he was capable of giving the usual orders while half asleep — which he very nearly was , having been called from his bed not much after five in the morning . |
| 10 | He saw service in both world wars , having been called back to the RAF reserve when the Second World War broke out and stayed in until 1947 . |
| 11 | In spite of the charter having been called in and the old Puritan ruling party apparently crushed , he rapidly attained considerable influence , as was sourly noted by the ardently imperialistic customs official , Edward Randolph [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | Indeed , Glenure 's relationship with the Camerons of Callart and of Lochiel was more fraught , troops having been called in to collect rents and effect evictions while he factored these forfeited estates . |
| 13 | No doctor having been called , even had they been able to find one willing to attend since one glance would have been more than enough to convince any practitioner of medicine that his fee could not be paid . |
| 14 | She had showered and put on a tracksuit , having been called down to help in the kitchen before getting into something more elegant . |
| 15 | Fenella told me , breathily and all excited , that they were going to operate and we 'd all have to leave , but it was all right really because Salome 's mum ( who was ever so nice ) had turned up having been called by Frank and was in there talking to the surgeons . |
| 16 | THE doors of the Queen 's dressmaker Norman Hartnell opened as normal yesterday despite receivers having been called in . |
| 17 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 18 | Of the three , that showing John Tradescant is the finest , for neither corpse in the other two paintings is shown in shrouds , both women having been painted as if at the moment of death rather than after the laying-out . |
| 19 | Having been dismissed as a kitchen maid , she harnesses her poetry to her teapot . |
| 20 | If you end the contract for any reason during the trial period , you will be treated as having been dismissed on the date when your original job ended . |
| 21 | Certainly , you should make it clear by words or conduct that you are exercising your right to treat yourself as having been dismissed . |
| 22 | Having been dismissed from parade , the children race downstairs to where the Rangers ' 22 horses and Ponies are housed in splendour . |
| 23 | Peter , having been dismissed because his work as a traffic clerk has been largely supplanted by use of a computer program for traffic Mows , vehicle scheduling and so on is eligible for a redundancy payment . |
| 24 | Dogan , a nephew of the President and a leading conservative in the ruling Motherland Party ( ANAP ) , was described by official sources as having been dismissed on the President 's orders " apparently over a rift in domestic politics " . |
| 25 | Another unexpected disappearance from the scene was that of the defence minister himself , Adnan Khairallah , the President 's cousin , reported early in 1989 as having been dismissed and later to have died in a helicopter crash . |
| 26 | It has had over the years to be much restored , having been damaged three times by earthquakes and also outrageously neglected by the community of monks , who seem to have had an unnatural taste for litigation — one lawsuit between them and the locality lasted almost throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | Having been damaged in January by allegations of marital infidelity , Clinton began the month with poll ratings which suggested that he had once again established a significant lead over his Democratic rivals . |
| 28 | Turku Cathedral survives , though greatly restored and rebuilt , having been damaged and battered in its long history . |
| 29 | AN OUNCE of luck is always welcome in racing and I have to admit that I feel the most fortunate man around this morning having been asked to ride Docklands Express in the Grand National — a race I have never won . |
| 30 | Answering a question is a reaction to having been asked a question . |