Example sentences of "having been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However she was unable to attend , having been under house arrest in Burma which is ruled by the military , for the past four years . |
| 2 | Having been through the experience , though , may facilitate a certain realism about the conflict in question . ’ |
| 3 | Going back to fame , to your intimate knowledge of the processes of identification and obsession … having been through various manic fixations , you have progressed to being a star , the subject of fixation yourself . |
| 4 | Despite having been through the regulatory mangle time again and time again , the group still has the potential to generate a lot of cash , and yields about 8 p.c. on forecasts for 1993 . |
| 5 | Having been through the usual bass/guitar/drum formative years , they 've moved sideways to a shiny guitar/keyboard sound which draws on the good bits of the early '80s , without being retro . |
| 6 | I 'd just like to raise a point that erm most men are psychiat , er mo most of the psychiatrists are men and that a lot of the diagnosis I feel , come from a very sort of patriarchal view erm , you know a lot of have sort of brought up the alternative sort of er medicine and er self-help groups , and to me , having been through psychiatry which is a , a huge machine that is very difficult to get out that er to me , that 's the only future and there 's millions of pounds going into psychiatry and we 're reviewing it now with community care plans which , I I do n't think anybody is actually clear about but er , you know , the the millions that are put into psychiatry , I 'd like to see more sort of counselling er , become available or , more money given to sort of er mental health associations . |
| 7 | You 're not alone in your embarrassment — most of your friends will know exactly what you 're going through , having been through it themselves when their kids were the same age . |
| 8 | These shrubs were cut of fat ground level so that stools developed from which new shoots emerged — the stools can therefore be of very great age , having been through many cycles of cutting . |
| 9 | Some of the delay is inevitably due to the way in which the applicant , having been through the preliminary investigation and the visit from the occupational therapist , considers the scheme proposed for him before proceeding to the formal application stage . |
| 10 | Having been through that process once , the Social Security Committee is clearly interested in other areas . |
| 11 | Of course he understood , having been through the same gruesome ordeal . |
| 12 | She will say : ’ Having been through music school , I 've seen so many people who really play their instruments — I mean , they did n't just plug in and press a button . |
| 13 | Having been through the six months of the greenbelt local plan enquiry , I can say quite clearly to this er examination in public , that I doubt whether there is the land available erm er around the inner edge erm erm to increase the level of of housing development in and around the city without seriously prejudicing greenbelt objectives . |
| 14 | It is again referring to the needless deaths of youths and Owen 's emotional feelings for the subject having been through it all himself . |
| 15 | having been through that experience with Helen , he 'll be a lot more weary . |
| 16 | Having been through the spate of using a clapped out vacuum cleaner that did n't do its job , and how different it is now |
| 17 | Having been without a tutor-organiser since 1958 , Essex Federation representatives on the District Council have suggested from time to time that other counties might benefit from following their example . |
| 18 | Roth 's influence was less as a teacher , there having been during his lifetime much less scope than later for Jewish studies in Britain , than as a writer and lecturer . |
| 19 | The Liskeard Grammar School also survived into the nineteenth century but was described by Polwhele , early in the century , as ‘ … a low , mean edifice , bad without and worse within , the business of education … having been of late years , it seems , less understood at Liskeard . ’ |
| 20 | As she wheeled her bicycle down the vicarage drive , she had a purely professional sense of having done nothing , but nevertheless of having been of use . |
| 21 | Nader Nadirpur came home late having been for a drive along the Bois de Boulogne to calm his nerves after a particularly bad day . |
| 22 | The Child Poverty Action Group might also be seen as an expert and appropriate group to raise social security matters , having been for many years active in campaigning on such matters . |
| 23 | In 1979 Mrs. Nancy O'Donnell also retired , having been for 23 years an indispensable part of School life — catering for numbers large or small , brewing tea and coffee , selling biscuits outside Room 18 , applying plasters to wounded knees or offering sympathy to wounded spirits . |
| 24 | Lucker drops out of nowhere having been for a pee . |
| 25 | Detailing the " ruthless " abuse of human rights against opponents of the regime , the report said that many executions were officially described as having been for drug-trafficking offences , adding that prisoners had no recourse to legal counsel or right to appeal . |
| 26 | Having been to confession and passed through ‘ the wall of fire ’ , Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope , ‘ the suggestion about an orgy of egoism turns out , like all the Enemy propaganda , to have just a grain of truth in it , but I have no doubt that the proper method of dealing with that is as I intend to do , to continue the practice . |
| 27 | I was offered post-natal support having been to some NCT ante-natal classes . |
| 28 | She says : ‘ People have a very cliched view of the middle East , but my impression , having been to three or four Arab countries , is that it is grossly misrepresented in the western press . |
| 29 | Indeed , I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton 's departure to Cornwall in 1936 , myself never having been to that part of the country , I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons 's work , the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall , complete with photographs and — to my mind even more evocative — a variety of artists ' sketches of that region . |
| 30 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |