Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mapplewell and Staincross Hospital and Comforts Fund celebrated the centenary of their hospital sing in 1986 , the event having been continuous since its inception on the 31st July 1887 . |
| 2 | I , too , wish to apologise to the House for not having been present at the start of this debate . |
| 3 | Having been present at the weekend of events held in the City Chambers , Edinburgh earlier this month to celebrate International Women 's Day , I was ‘ shocked and appalled ’ to see a letter from Alexandra Wallace ( 12 March ) on the content of the weekend . |
| 4 | Mr Pass , the beadle of the Surgeon 's Company , having been present during this experiment , was so alarmed that he died soon after his return home from fright . ’ |
| 5 | One question which arises from the conclusion that bridging inferences are falsely identified as having been present in a passage concerns when such inferences are drawn . |
| 6 | ‘ What is Sir Guy like ? ’ she queried curiously , not having been present in the hall when their visitor had arrived . |
| 7 | Zambia had dreaded Tammuz seeing hir battered flesh , feeling sure he would be sickened by the thought of others having been intimate with hir so recently . |
| 8 | Even the novelist George Gissing , who was ‘ no friend of the people ’ and who was the most scathing critic of so many aspects of the new popular culture , has his fictional alter ego Henry Ryecroft recalling the pleasures of having been young in London , of the public houses with their ‘ pints of foaming ale ’ and the supper bars with their ‘ sausage and mash ’ , of the theatres where one could ‘ roll and hustle with the throng at the pit-door ’ , and of walking home singing as he went . |
| 9 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 10 | Friend of mine , I had a beer with in the week , showed me his new car , and he said the big irritation is it does n't centrally lock , having been used to it . |
| 11 | With over 80 per cent of the seats in each house , many of them won by very large majorities indeed and a not insubstantial number having been uncontested by the Republican Party ( see Key 's ( 1949 ) classic volume on southern politics ) , did the Democratic Party need to pay large welfare benefits in order to win votes ? |
| 12 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 13 | He was also the most relaxed of batsmen , often having been asleep in the dressing-room before going out to the middle . |
| 14 | However , it 's all extremely well played , the Waltz is light as air , and the Elegy all the more moving for its having been relieved of any hint of bogus pathos . |
| 15 | In 1723 , for example , the member of parliament for Stirlingshire was John Graham of Killearn , the chamberlain of the Duke of Montrose , a man chiefly remembered for having been relieved of the duke 's rents at pistol point by Rob Roy MacGregor . |
| 16 | She , Cecilia , though a loving , kind and humble woman , touched no one if she could help it and thought this reserve might be connected with her never having been much for sex . |
| 17 | ( FCA ) of , having been found guilty of misconduct contrary to Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in Cardiff between 26 March 1991 and 4 February 1992 purported to exercise a lien over the papers of his former client when he was not entitled to do so and having been guilty of a breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( ii ) in that he in Cardiff between 22 May 1991 and 4 February 1992 failed to deal properly and promptly with professional enquiries from Chartered Accountants in respect of the affairs of his former client and having been found guilty of a breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he in Cardiff between 17 December 1991 and 4 February 1992 failed to provide information required of him by the Investigation Committee on 17 December 1991 in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) concerning the affairs of his former client was reprimanded , fined £750 and ordered to pay £l , 000 by way of costs . |
| 18 | On one occasion a New Bradwell man , having been unsuccessful in boarding the first two ‘ buses to Bradwell at lunch time , expostulated ‘ I 'll get a seat on the next one even if I have to stand up ’ needless to say he never lived that statement down . |
| 19 | But Dyson 's opinion of him , which had risen noticeably on hearing that he had been at King 's , had fallen back to zero again ; his having been at King 's was cancelled out by his having been right about his instructions to join Dyson 's department . |
| 20 | I should have liked to have said come and be our guests , but , having been redundant since last October , Julia did indicate on the phone that you would be willing to pay the basic going rate . |
| 21 | She was indeed inexperienced in teaching RE having been unhappy with what she had hitherto been expected to present . |
| 22 | French producers had demanded that Japan should limit its sales to a maximum of double the number of EC-built cars sold in Japan , the actual ratio in 1988 having been 11 to one . |
| 23 | The issue resurfaced almost immediately , however , in the form of a sexually explicit interview published by the Star ( a supermarket tabloid which had originally published the Nichols allegations ) , with a state employee , Gennifer Flowers , one of the woman named by Nichols as having been involved with Clinton . |
| 24 | Having been involved in a substantial amount of this sort of work for 15 years , I believe it is correct to aver that once a person reaches 60 there is an unwritten rule or convention which determines that he or she shall not receive a first appointment . |
| 25 | According to The Famous Grouse Director , Matthew Gloag , the company 's interest in the next year 's tournament in Edinburgh had been almost a foregone conclusion due to the enormous benefits of having been involved in the 1991 World Cup . |
| 26 | However , the Commission adds that a total of 139 ‘ public officers ’ were ‘ recorded ’ as having been involved in human rights abuses , including torture . |
| 27 | Having been involved in Human Resources projects such as writing a recruitment guide entitles ‘ Living and Working in Moscow — A Guide for Expatriates ’ and drafting personnel policies , I have developed an interest in the Personnel area . |
| 28 | Having been involved in such proceedings since the Twenties he was now in fact finding them " a bit tedious " , and " Mr Eliot 's list " was invented for a section of the agenda so that he did not have to attend the entire meeting . |
| 29 | Section 11 of the Act authorises police officers to arrest anyone they suspect of being or having been involved in terrorist activity . |
| 30 | Having been involved in displays of this kind for some years , the northwest clubs ' displays were very elaborate and some clever display techniques were seen . |