Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen was a well known face on the fourth floor of Stamford House , having been secretary to a succession of board directors since she joined in 1959 . |
| 2 | The first casualty in building the Hall was Room 5 , form room for many years of Mr. A. Johnston , who retired in July 1968 , having been Head of History since 1925 . |
| 3 | Having been Chairman of BNFL I would like to contribute as a Chairman in the future … and that , I believe , is how I can make my best contribution . |
| 4 | An outstandingly natural and obvious choice , Dennis Silk has long-standing connections with MCC , having been part of the club 's missionary tours of the 1950s to Africa , South America , and the continent of his birth , North America . |
| 5 | For a long time Bayonne was an English possession , having been part of the extensive territorial dowry of Eleanor of Aquitaine when she married into the Plantagenet family in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 6 | Unlike the passages on Seyh Abdulkerim , Molla Abdulkerim or Molla Yegan , however , about all of whom Mustakimzade has some sort of reservation , this passage on Hizir Bey contains no reference to or any derivation of it ; and it would seem from his particular vagueness in relation to Hizir Bey and his failure to accord him a separate article that while he is aware of the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti , he is unsure of his relationship to the main stream of Muftis and probably regards him as not having been part of it . |
| 7 | Pre-tax profits in the last financial year were £28.3m , having been £9.4m in 1986-87 . |
| 8 | Well , education having been oversold in that way , erm the pendulum swung very strongly in the opposite direction , and I think , for a while , starting with the so-called ‘ Great Debate ’ under James Callaghan , education became very undersold . |
| 9 | The win by Peter Crispe and navigator Tony Poole was an exceptionally popular one , the pair having been stalwarts of air racing for a long time . |
| 10 | Gore , who had made an impressive if unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 , was the product of a patrician southern family , his father having been Senator for Tennessee . |
| 11 | and having been sort of helping |
| 12 | Having been exporters for decades , Japan 's car makers are at last becoming real multinationals , with factories all over the world . |
| 13 | Rafeedie dismissed the case against Alvarez as " the wildest speculation " and rebuked the DEA for having been complicit in the abduction of Alvarez when there was nothing but circumstantial evidence to suggest that he had participated in Camarena 's torture or death . |
| 14 | Volume of total gastric juice in basal and under pentagastrin infusion was calculated as the sum of four 15 minute samples in each period ( Table ) and the hourly output of each substance ( platelet activating factor : pg/hr ; lyso platelet activating factor : µg/hr ; AAGPC : µg/hr ; acid : mmol/hr ; pepsin : pepsin unit UP/hr ; NANA : µg/hr ; choline : µg/hr ) was calculated as the sum of four 15 minute rates of secretion ; each 15 minute rate having been determiend by multiplication of concentration by the volume of gastric juice aspirated during 15 minutes . |
| 15 | However , the prison sentences on the 61 , originally imposed for " hooliganism " , offending good manners and upsetting public order , had merely been annulled in February 1990 ; they were now formally reclassified as having been convictions for the political offence of " propaganda against the socialist system " . |
| 16 | The two companies are already best friends , having been partners in the initial joint submission to the Object Management Group for its request for object request broker technology , which was of course later combined with technology from Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Hyperdesk Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc to become the Common Object Request Broker . |
| 17 | Colonel John Wilson has given the club immense service , having been President for the last 10 years immediately following 23 years as Match Secretary . |
| 18 | On April 2 hundreds of protesters in Tripoli succeeded in entering the Venezuelan embassy and burned down part of it ( the Venezuelan permanent representative at the UN , Diego Arria , having been president of the Security Council for the month of March ) . |
| 19 | Moreover , while they do show that official statistics tend to underestimate the amount of crime , it is likely that victim studies also under-record the amount — mostly because people can only report having been victims of crime if they know that they have been victimised . |
| 20 | The French , having been victims of German occupation , were much less certain about this policy . |
| 21 | Off Ian pedalled , to arrive at the pub a few seconds before Sally , but having been companions in adversity throughout the whole way , neither was going to claim outright victory , so agreed to declare a draw . |