Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was after the Revolution , however , that Herne , having been elected MP for Dartmouth on 28 November 1689 ( representing the constituency until his death ) , and knighted on 15 September 1690 , emerged to some prominence .
2 On Sept. 19 Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , appointed by Pérez de Cuéllar to take charge of humanitarian aid , abandoned an attempt to assess the humanitarian needs of foreign refugees in Iraq and Kuwait , having been denied entry to Iraq . )
3 Sunday morning say the start of the ladies ' competition with St Albans A and Mutineers going through to the semis to play St Albans B and Woodmill respectively , the latter two having been given byes to this stage .
4 Heseltine 's campaign team , having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks , had already developed a considerable momentum .
5 The office of " Field Officer " remained vacant after Jimmy Hudson 's retirement in 1978 , and Margaret Moore , having been appointed Headmistress of the Hamilton Lodge School in Brighton , also left without being replaced immediately .
6 Having been appointed warden of Wadham College Oxford in 1648 , he was criticized by less moderate puritans who objected to the manner in which he turned the college into a haven for those with Anglican and Royalist sympathies .
7 He retired from the army in 1924 , having been appointed CB in 1919 and KCB in 1922 .
8 The Majlis now had 268 members , the results in two single-member constituencies having been declared invalid by the Council of Guardians ; re-runs for these two seats would be held by means of mid-term by-elections .
9 Leon Trotsky himself arrived in Mexico in early January 1937 , having been granted asylum by president Cárdenas .
10 Following them was Kim Philby , who escaped to Moscow just ahead of MI5 in 1962 , and Anthony Blunt , who finally confessed in 1964 to being a long-time and important Russian spy only after having been granted immunity from prosecution .
11 Having been offered shelter by one of the Armstrongs , Hector of Hardlaw , whom he had helped some years previously , he was treacherously handed over to the Earl of Moray , Regent of Scotland since Mary 's enforced abdication .
12 Above all we should resist it because it is really intended to allow legalised Euthanasia to sneak in by the kitchen window having been refused entry at the front door .
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