Example sentences of "[v-ing] [been] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've served on that one , and the whole business of the organisation has generally speaking been run by the executive and not by a full council . |
| 2 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 3 | Having been dismissed as a kitchen maid , she harnesses her poetry to her teapot . |
| 4 | If you end the contract for any reason during the trial period , you will be treated as having been dismissed on the date when your original job ended . |
| 5 | Dogan , a nephew of the President and a leading conservative in the ruling Motherland Party ( ANAP ) , was described by official sources as having been dismissed on the President 's orders " apparently over a rift in domestic politics " . |
| 6 | Having been engaged in an undeclared war with China since 1937 Japan took advantage of the French defeat in 1940 both to close one of China 's last remaining links with the outside world , the Haiphong — Yunnan railway , and to begin her advance into Southeast Asia . |
| 7 | The Countess of Huntingdon 's Methodist Connexion , founded in the mid-18th century , was yet another Calvinistic organisation , we may note with interest ; what with Robert Titford being baptised at one of their chapels , and his sister Elizabeth having been registered with the Zion congregation in Frome , Calvinism seems once again to have cast its shadow across the family , even into the 19th century . |
| 8 | The 80,000,000 yen in bribes was part of a total of more than 500,000,000 yen allegedly given by Kyowa to Abe , some of which appeared to have found its way directly into the coffers of the Miyazawa faction without having been registered under the political funds control law . |
| 9 | Having been overruled by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) hierarchy and the spending ministries on requested budget cuts , Solchaga had regained the initiative through these measures of financial and trade liberalization . |
| 10 | That the Bill shall be laid upon the Table of the House by one of the Clerks in the Private Bill Office on the next meeting of the House after the day on which the Bill has been presented and , when so laid , shall be read the first and second time ( and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read ) and , having been amended by the Committee in the last Session , shall be ordered to lie upon the Table . |
| 11 | Having been groped by the Croatian National Guard , the friends parted company , the press to their pens on the platform 's left hand , Joshua to sit among the delegates of his local Party . |
| 12 | The nonconformist movement built their first chapel in 1821 , with four having been erected over the years for the Primitive , Congregational , Baptist and Methodist movements , only the latter still regularly meeting . |
| 13 | When Banner treated its properties as investment properties in its 1990/91 accounts , auditors Stoy Hayward added to their report : ‘ Without qualifying our opinion above , we draw attention to note 8 which refers to the valuation of investment properties having been conducted by the directors at open market value assuming vacant possession ’ ( see ACCOUNTANCY , September 1991 , p 33 ) . |
| 14 | The interim legislative body was condemned as phoney , membership having been determined by the Americans ; it contained no representatives of workers or peasants but instead represented the sordid interests of Korean capitalism . |
| 15 | The path was in fact too wide , the width having been determined by the machinery . |
| 16 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 17 | The bathroom , having been converted from the front parlour , was downstairs and backed onto a small room at the rear of the cottage in which we kept the hoover , other cleaning materials and spares of this and that , such as light bulbs and rolls of loo paper . |
| 18 | However , two millworkers ' cottages , that formerly consisted of three storeys , each of a single room , stand close by , having been converted in the late '50s . |
| 19 | The celibate woman was seen as having been freed from the ‘ curse of Eve ’ , to bear children in sorrow and to be under the domination of the male . |
| 20 | Districts : ‘ Working for patients ’ says little about planning but stresses that , having been freed from the obligation actually to provide services : |
| 21 | What was the nature of Korean society and how had Korea been affected by the experience of having been ruled as an integral part of the Japanese colonial empire for almost half a century before the defeat of Japan in 1945 ? |
| 22 | The head portion of the bolt , the tail portion with nut attached in its normal fastened position and the plain washer had all been severely mangled , having been entrained between the chain and the sprockets . |
| 23 | In acts chapter two and verse thirty two , this Jesus , God raised up again to which we are all witnesses , therefore , having been exulted to the right hand of God , and having receiving from the father the promise of the Holy Spirit , he has poured forth this which you both see and hear . |
| 24 | The case of the traveller to Bali is vastly more complicated , his deciding reaction having been influenced by an indefinite series of accessions to his awareness from the viewpoints of parents and community as well as from his own . |
| 25 | Among other relics was discovered a folding chair , this being in a badly burned condition having been placed on the funeral pyre . |
| 26 | Engagement letters must be signed by the client who must have time to consider the terms of the letter such that there can be no suggestion of undue pressure to sign having been placed on the client . |
| 27 | The box having been placed upon the table , he ordered it with great eagerness to be opened . |
| 28 | Spoiler at the start of a spinnaker drop , the sail having been tripped from the pole end |
| 29 | He was sensitive to this lack of recognition , but at the same time fully understood how much he owed to having been saved from the academic treadmill . |
| 30 | Nine people — six monks , two novices and an elderly nun — were found dead in a Buddhist temple in Arizona on Aug. 10 , each having been shot in the back of the head . |