Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Colonel John Wilson has given the club immense service , having been President for the last 10 years immediately following 23 years as Match Secretary . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |