Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Baines received minor injuries having been hit by his wife with an artificial tree , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The routine at this stage never varied It was unlikely that he would find it necessary to leave his office until the time came to visit the missing girl 's parents and in the meantime he was capable of giving the usual orders while half asleep — which he very nearly was , having been called from his bed not much after five in the morning . |
| 3 | Newspaper announcement , June 1794 : ‘ The public are most respectfully informed that Mr Edmund Bond ( late a Pupil of the Veterinary College ) has undergone an Examination before the Medical Committee , and the following is a Copy of their Report : These are to certify that Mr Edmund Bond has attended the Veterinary College as a Resident Pupil for Eighteen Months , and having been examined by us , we consider him as qualified to practise the Veterinary Art . |
| 4 | He received his certificate which stated : ‘ These are to Certify that Mr Edmund Bond has attended the Veterinary College as a resident pupil for 18 months and having been examined by us , we consider him as qualified to practise the Veterinary Art ’ . |
| 5 | Thereafter Miss Logan , despite having been engaged for her experience , confined herself to the cabin . |
| 6 | 1 on the ground , having been flown from their barracks in Omagh some twenty miles away . |
| 7 | And I mean er er you could argue that you know , because he 's er erm you know targeting the young and people who are at school in particular , the fact that , you know , if he 's successful in targeting those , then by nineteen forty nine those school children will be sort of will be the , the peasants , will be farmers and therefore will be more willing , you know , having been indoctrinated by his thoughts er or , or by the communist way of thinking , then erm for the revolution . |
| 8 | In retirement , Muccio recalled that Rhee was very intelligent , determined and assertive ; he had reached the top at a late age and was too set in his ways , his attitude having been determined by his lengthy period in exile , amid the seemingly forlorn struggle to save Korea from Japanese colonialism . |
| 9 | The only minister who actually lost a vote of no confidence ( by 74 to 23 ) was Arnis Kalnins , who resigned as Minister of Economic Reform , having been criticized for his inability to conduct the restructuring of the economy along free market lines . |
| 10 | Research has consistently demonstrated that the transfer of older clients from hospital to the community can be very problematic with older people being sent home without adequate arrangements having been made for their continuing care ( Victor 1983 ) . |
| 11 | The company has always stood for excellence in analogue sound reproduction , its fame having been made by its first and longest running model , the LP12 turntable . |
| 12 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 13 | Er , there 's something that 's me that survives these different changes of location erm age and size erm all kinds of things are consistent with it still being me that 's doing the changing rather than my having been replaced by something else . |
| 14 | Wharton turned pro in 1989 with the dubious distinction of having been disqualified in his ABA national final . |
| 15 | We are pleased to announce that the winner of our ‘ Draw a Poster ’ competition is a young lady , Robyn Emerton , who lives in Gnosall , Staffordshire , her interest in Medau having been engendered by her enthusiastic mother . |
| 16 | Now his eyes were bright and he stood straight and strong , the whole incident having been relegated in his mind to the unimportant , the not-to-be-remembered . |
| 17 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |
| 18 | I arrived breathless and late , having been delayed in what seemed heavier traffic than usual . |
| 19 | It is true that marriage is , or may be , a detriment to the plaintiff ; but detriment to the plaintiff is not enough , unless it either be a benefit to the testator , or be treated by the testator as such , by having been suffered at his request . |
| 20 | Note that there is no reason for anyone to restrain their thoughts or their reflections on the reasons which apply to the case , nor are they necessarily debarred from criticising the arbitrator for having ignored certain reasons or for having been mistaken about their significance . |
| 21 | Erm the the particular case of Richmondshire having been referred to I I felt I ought to point that er we 're quite content with the concept of Policy E two as giving the strategic weight to the question of protecting the open countryside and the balance , the very difficult balance , decisions that we and other authorities are going to have to come to in preparing our local plan . |
| 22 | I am asking the Court further , in the event that it considers itself so empowered , to treat the case as having been referred to it by me under section 17(1) ( a ) . ’ |
| 23 | Now , at nearly twenty , he was still struggling to pass his Grade 12 examinations in high school , having been assured by his father , the school , and society at large that the world held no place for a boy without his Grade 12 . |
| 24 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |
| 25 | Watching her , Trent recalled sailing towards what he had expected to be his death the previous morning on Golden Girl … his sense of deprivation , of having been robbed of his right to a normal life . |
| 26 | The planning system invites intelligent use and foresight : it is surprising how many cases have got to within three or four weeks of a public inquiry with no serious thought having been given to what evidence should be presented in favour of the proposals . |
| 27 | He claimed he had not signed the document properly because , it having been given to him by a ‘ gentleman ’ , he was too nervous to do so . |
| 28 | And the nonempiricist theories that they have meaning for us by virtue of our having encountered platonic forms in an earlier non-bodily life , or by virtue of having had ideas put into our mind-s by God , or by virtue of our having been born with them , can all be happily abandoned . |
| 29 | It is grossly unfair that she should have been sentenced to life having been provoked by her partner over a period into killing him . |
| 30 | All that exists , having been created by him , is his property — his to withhold , to bestow , and eventually to reclaim . |