Example sentences of "having [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the only things worth having are the things you 've worked hard for , and I 'll last out , I daresay , so do n't you worry , girl ! |
| 2 | So , we must oppose that and er also they 're asking for new powers er to move illegal travellers from land this is just another device because of their failure to provide sufficient sites throughout the country and if the of Essex County Council do their job er they they do n't need these new powers , what authority ought to be ha , er having are powers to provide some er , camping places for people . |
| 3 | Provided the gift is at least £600 it will be regarded as having been paid net of basic rate tax . |
| 4 | Thoza Khonje , Malawi : released February 1991 , having been detained for two years after making remarks which were interpreted as critical of the Life President . |
| 5 | having been in the US 's ‘ back yard ’ I know how little attention is paid to those issues there . |
| 6 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
| 7 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 8 | Some see the conflict as having been crystallised by Proust , who wrote an attack on the critic Sainte-Beuve in 1908 ( though it was not published until 1954 ) . |
| 9 | The biographer may come up against problems of concealment , both written records and works having been destroyed . |
| 10 | Compared with what we find in Naipaul 's novel , however , Conrad 's Costaguana is a country of the mind : it has the air of having been built to accommodate his meanings . |
| 11 | The book has explained that , having been a murderer of unreliables for the Republicans , he was shot at by a rival and went straight back to Glasgow . ) |
| 12 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 13 | Chapter Five opens with the information : ‘ Ursula and Kenelm had known my parents for some time , having been introduced originally by a mutual friend . |
| 14 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 15 | That , his day 's toil having been deferred , he wanders through unfamiliar woods with unsure footsteps . |
| 16 | Inevitably , few Georgian beerhouses or coaching inns survive in anything like their original form , having been comprehensively extended or altered in subsequent decades . |
| 17 | ‘ Did I hear something , ’ said Cook frowning , ‘ about Lady Destry having been ill ? ’ |
| 18 | Almost immediately on arrival , surrounded by the cosmopolitan excitement of New York , its immense anonymity , the total lack of personal interest shown towards him after having been the centre of warmth and appreciation in Montreal , he knew that it was not for him . |
| 19 | By this time the Jewish community in Greece had dwindled to something like 6,000 ( from the 11,000 which remained after the Nazi occupation ; 75,000 having been liquidated ) . |
| 20 | He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1738 , having been proposed by Sir Hans Sloane and other eminent scientists of the day . |
| 21 | Having been inspired to create a ballet by any one of the sources mentioned , choreographers have to decide upon the appropriate materials with which to work . |
| 22 | The Eiger , Drummond hopes , having been claimed by Hitler after the Nordwand climb of 1936 , will thus become a world mountain . |
| 23 | Many of the dark rocks stand on limestone pedestals , the surrounding rocks having been eroded away . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That the members of the quintet will be ‘ bound ’ to each other in secret guilt by the cement of blood , having been tricked into thinking Shatov is a danger and must be removed , is another and a promising rationalization which reveals a local shrewdness like Iago 's . |
| 26 | This is a practical guide to real-time programming , the programs provided having been tested and proved . |
| 27 | In 1983 , visiting a university in provincial Norway , I found students of English grappling perplexedly with Derrida , having been encouraged to do so by their British professor . |
| 28 | There might be regrets over giving up the novel , but after having been deeply interested in that form for many years ( even to the extent of writing one ) and often teaching courses on the novel , I have come to the conclusion that the pedagogic difficulties involved are extreme . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |