Example sentences of "having been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was fiercely proud of Scotland , having been indoctrinated by glowing tales from my Mother , and felt that the land was mine by birthright . |
| 2 | This specimen lies on a slab of mudstone , the specimen itself having been converted into coal-like material — that is , into carbon . |
| 3 | Having been printed on fibre-based paper , the images were masked out , hand-coloured and sulphide-toned before being cut out and mounted onto plywood . |
| 4 | I have used this service for selling , although more so on the buying side , having been tempted on numerous occasions ! |
| 5 | Can the Minister assure the House that , if a general election goes against his wishes and people cross their ballot papers having been influenced by Labour propaganda , he will accept that result ? |
| 6 | A feature of the blades is that several showed traces of having been made from river-worn cobbles . |
| 7 | Above all , this kind of political romanticism fosters the view that future arrangements can be attained when conflict and dispute will no longer take place , having been replaced by eternal harmony . |
| 8 | Although Summers presents government and law enforcement in America as having been riddled with clandestine behaviour , from the amount of material he gathered he would seen to have demonstrated the effectiveness of the Freedom of Information Act . |
| 9 | When his devotions are over , after the Mass , having been blessed by holy relics , he then dedicates the rest of the morning to the work of government of his empire . |
| 10 | Having been trained in Institutional Management I still like to keep my hand in by catering for private functions such as weddings and christenings , and I intersperse this with occasional cookery demonstrations for women 's groups in the area . |
| 11 | Ira Dilworth , Lawren Harris and I journeyed together to Victoria for the funeral and none of us were pall-bearers , such details having been arranged by local friends and neighbours . |
| 12 | The neurophysiological parameters of LTP having been mapped with exquisite precision , the question of interest became its cellular mechanism . |
| 13 | W. J. Freeland set up groups of three mice , the different mice having been injected with different quantities of parasites . |
| 14 | She regarded herself as having been battered by uncontrollable forces , washed up in hostile , foreign waters against jagged rocks . |
| 15 | All we can say is that assurances were given , and that for a short time they were accepted as having been given in good faith ; but they were not honoured . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | John Vento became the third white to be sentenced in connection with the Bensonhurst attack , having been convicted of unlawful imprisonment and menacing behaviour , on July 3 , and was on Aug. 14 imprisoned for between 2@2/3 and 8 years . |
| 18 | It is questionable whether the study of patients with a history of having been diagnosed with cervical cancer can form the basis for conclusions about the seroepidemiology of this disease . |
| 19 | Invalided from the RAF in 1940 , having been rejected for flying training , he spent a frustrating war as a special constable . |
| 20 | Here , and again in London as resident scenic artist for the Grand Opera Syndicate at Covent Garden , he became frustrated by the conservatism of management with regard to production and scenery , and returned to America after the outbreak of war in 1914 , having been rejected for military service because of deafness . |
| 21 | As friends and neighbours left flowers on the steps leading to the flat , it emerged that Ms Baillie would be unable to have more children , having been sterilised on medical advice after Ashley Anne 's birth . |
| 22 | Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal . |
| 23 | ‘ There are indications of scorching and the presence of particles of smokeless powder suggest a firearm wound , the weapon having been discharged at close range . ’ |
| 24 | Another wonderful view was the truck , showing no signs of having been surrounded by angry aluminium workers attempting to tow it away . |
| 25 | It finally fell two years later as a result of famine , having been surrounded by Frankish earthworks and troops who had remained through the winter months . |
| 26 | The village is a typical ‘ street ’ type of community , with the original single line of houses having been augmented in recent years with additional housing developing along the back lanes , behind the Main Street . |
| 27 | Both dogs are familiar with the Byker circuit , having been bred by Brough-based Norman Oliver before moving on . |
| 28 | Havel , who had been elected in December 1989 to serve in an interim capacity [ see p. 37107 ] , was the sole candidate ; a number of other individuals had been disqualified , not having been nominated by parliamentary deputies , while Stefan Kvietik , nominated by the Slovak National Party , had withdrawn . |
| 29 | In which case are Upehull and Upsall related , the ‘ s ’ having been introduced by scribal error or misreading at some stage , or is the later form a name given to a family coming originally from Uppsala in Sweden ? |
| 30 | In Morgan v. Palmer ( 1824 ) 2 B. & C. 729 it was held that the plaintiff was entitled to recover from the Mayor of Great Yarmouth a sum which he had been required to pay as a condition of being granted a renewal of his publican 's licence , the payment having been demanded without lawful authority . |