Example sentences of "be [v-ing] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm not sure , in the lists in the magazine we should have appeared as being having been released |
| 3 | The fact of these men 's having been guided argues a body of local botanical knowledge as early as the first part of the 17th century . |
| 4 | This is a poor harvest from those weeks or months that the Pounds spent in Sicily ; and indeed it is no harvest at all , since none of these allusions depends in any way on the poet 's having been physically present in the island . |
| 5 | Scaevola is less than enthusiastic , but he does state that a case can be made for a trust 's having been established . |
| 6 | The fact of the recent move plus my mind 's having been engaged elsewhere might , I hoped , explain this otherwise crass stupidity . |
| 7 | In spite of the causal theory 's having been taken over from the rationalist , Descartes , it could be put to use in the interests of empiricism . |
| 8 | If the necessity for the agreement is overlooked then so will be the necessity of the child 's having been trained to react to certain things in a certain way for it to mean anything by ‘ It is red ’ . |
| 9 | It was improbable in the extreme that Brian 's sterling qualities had come to the notice of the Comptroller of the Household , and she could only assume that the summons had been the consequence of her father 's having been an RA . |
| 10 | The fact of his eldest son 's having been knighted within a month of Noell 's death from the plague ( on 29 September 1665 at his home in the parish of St Olave Jewry , London ) suggests continuing royal favour , although his executors did not escape unwelcome attention from royal revenue officials , notably in connection with allegations of his having profited improperly from the gains of privateering — England and Spain remaining technically at war until some little time after the Restoration . |
| 11 | It ranges from the Dean 's having been arrested for murdering Paul Gray to the Bishop 's having hired Lord Cumbermound 's beagles to track down the corpse . ’ |
| 12 | She wondered if she should tell him about Amy 's having been a nurse . |
| 13 | ONE OF the world 's major orchid shows is to open in Glasgow in May , in spite of the event 's having been dubbed a fiasco less than a month ago . |
| 14 | The granting of peerages to former politicians , chiefs of the defence staff and so on has the effect of enhancing the status of those whose only achievement in life is having been engendered by a privileged set of loins . |