Example sentences of "having [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many more ancient monuments and ruins existed than survive today , they were either thought of as relatively recent ruins or natural phenomena , or else they were explained away as having been made by gods or legendary heroes . |
| 2 | ( The qualification " available " is necessary because some list candidates would have disappeared , having been elected in constituencies . ) |
| 3 | The LEA inspector , having been involved at intervals throughout the year , should not , in Bill Laar 's ( 1989 ) phrase provide ‘ awkward surprises ’ in comments made . |
| 4 | After the First World War the town thrived briefly , but in later decades achieved a near-dormitory state , having been discovered by couples wishing to retire from the frenetic life in the larger urban conurbations . |
| 5 | Arguing that the defendants had been accused simply because they were non-white , the defence dismissed the confessions ( which the youths themselves retracted ) as having been extracted under police duress . |
| 6 | By portraying the returned veteran as having been affected by experiences in an alien land , these films reflected the manner in which American society viewed these unwelcome reminders of defeat . |
| 7 | Sheep , cattle and horses graze here every year , having been herded from places like Darjeeling and further afield . |
| 8 | There are many reports of their having been seen with binoculars , but I have never had any success . |
| 9 | The court ordered disclosure to B. , for use on the hearing of the reference , of all witness statements and documents in the possession of the authority as a result of the investigation , on his implied undertaking not to use the disclosed documents otherwise than for the purposes of pursuing his criminal appeal on the reference , assurances having been given to informants that statements would not ordinarily be used otherwise than for the investigation of the complaint or for any criminal or disciplinary proceedings which might follow . |
| 10 | The Royal Navy equivalent award — the Distinguished Service Cross ( DSC ) , and the Army equivalent award — the Military Cross ( MC ) , will be covered in a later article within this series , both awards having been awarded at times to members of the RAF . |
| 11 | Britain , said the press , was considering buying Exocet missiles , having been caught with trousers down . |
| 12 | The Annual General Meeting of the Chartered Institute of Transport in the UK will be held on Monday March 29 , 1993 at 1030 hrs at , to consider the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended September 30 , 1992 , to elect to the Board , Mr A Dartnell and Miss S Jourdain having been nominated by Sections Conference as Directors , and to elect auditors for the year 1992–3 . |
| 13 | At the bottom S.W. receives only applications for combinations among his four fields , all others having been directed to tutors above him . |
| 14 | When old nationalisms come to the surface , having been suppressed for decades , it can be in a pure and dangerous form . |
| 15 | The next day he was reappointed , having been renominated by leaders of six parties ; his own Chart Thai ( CT ) , four other members of the coalition , namely the Democrat Party ( DP ) , Social Action Party ( SAP ) , Rassadorn ( R ) and Puang Chon Chao Thai ( Thai People 's Party — PCCT ) , and the main opposition party , Ekkaparb ( Solidarity — E ) . |
| 16 | As a result of n records being allocated , the probability of a given location having been allocated x records is given by the terms of the binomial expression : Thus This expression is precise . |