Example sentences of "having been bear [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Himself a creature of translation , in Salman Rushdie 's sense of having been borne across the world and across cultures , Ghose is among the Indo-Anglian writers of the diaspora whose work chronicles 20th-century displacement and migration.hThis novel , his eleventh , is a complex , fragmentary and at times obscure exploration of the relationship between memory and identity , and the fractures wrought in both by expatriation . |
| 2 | Wilson grew up in rowing , rather than the Boat Race , having been born at Henley . |
| 3 | Some were so tiny , having been born at under 30 weeks gestation and spent several months in incubators . |
| 4 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. J. is 16 months old , having been born on 22 January 1991 . |
| 5 | Fate has dealt harshly with W. She is now aged 16 , having been born on 31 March 1976 . |
| 6 | And the nonempiricist theories that they have meaning for us by virtue of our having encountered platonic forms in an earlier non-bodily life , or by virtue of having had ideas put into our mind-s by God , or by virtue of our having been born with them , can all be happily abandoned . |
| 7 | His cohesive solution was to see the spirit of the fabliaux , " " le description ironique de la vie quotidienne et moyenne " " , as having been born with the bourgeoisie , the town dwellers , and to propose that fabliaux were the literary expression of this social class , romance that of the aristocracy . |
| 8 | The very large majority of our sample , having been born between about 1885 and 1895 were in that special , and it might be said tragic , generation who were young adults during the Great War , then spent their middle years living through the Depression and the Second World War . |
| 9 | This orientation can be characterised by certain basic attitudes , chief among which are ( 1 ) a continued and strict adherence to the tenets of Judaic law ; ( 2 ) a recognition of Jesus as Messiah in the original Judaic sense of the word ; ( 3 ) a repudiation of the Virgin Birth and an insistence on Jesus having been born by natural processes , without any divine intervention ; and ( 4 ) a militant hostility towards Paul and the edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 10 | Henry Smith was in fact Irish , having been born in Dublin on 2 November , 1826 , but within two years his father died and the family moved to England . |
| 11 | There was nothing illegal in this and , indeed , if Joyce 's story of having been born in County Galway were accepted , he would merely be the returning exile . |
| 12 | Having been born in Birmingham , where her parents , Portuguese Jews , ran the Alexander Theatre , she freely slated the provinces . |
| 13 | , Walter ( fl. 1476–1499 ) , church musician and composer , Nothing is known for certain of his family , birth , and education ; there is no compelling reason to concur with speculation that the composer may be identifiable with the boy of this name who , having been born in Salisbury around 15 August 1451 or 1452 , was elected a King 's scholar of Eton College on 8 July 1467 . |
| 14 | He most certainly had few fond memories of the latter employment , but it was the former which caused him to curse his luck at having been born in Derby . |
| 15 | William Hutton , the son of a framework knitter , was sent to work at Derby 's silk mill in 1730 ; he later cursed his luck for having been born in the one city in the world where such could have been his fate . |