Example sentences of "having been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 2 | It has had over the years to be much restored , having been damaged three times by earthquakes and also outrageously neglected by the community of monks , who seem to have had an unnatural taste for litigation — one lawsuit between them and the locality lasted almost throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | He greeted Sir Thomas courteously too ; he greeted every damn person lined up with similar courtesy though his private thoughts were on the likelihood of a stiff brandy and soda having been placed ready in his suite . |
| 4 | Sage now grandly claims itself Britain 's largest micro software company having been listed eighth in Romtec 's January 1993 analysis of the Top 15 software companies in the UK , behind seven US firms . |
| 5 | I have more reason than most to do that , having been shot 10 times by the IRA . |
| 6 | She ran as though she was wearing high heels when a terrible flop on her last visit to Britain , having been made hot favourite for the 1,000 Guineas won by Sayyedati . |
| 7 | She ran as though she was wearing high heels when a terrible flop on her last visit to Britain , having been made hot favourite for the 1,000 Guineas won by Sayyedati . |
| 8 | you are regarded as not having been made redundant at all ; |
| 9 | He is no stranger to the changing work scene having been made redundant twice , finally joining Scottish Amicable ten years ago in 1982 . |
| 10 | I 'm sure that er I 'm not in an unusual position er having been made redundant twice on the trot . |
| 11 | She could feel the anger surging inside her and she fought it down , not wanting him to know what a fool she felt for not having been made aware of that fact . |
| 12 | Daleys Dennis is also in action tomorrow , the first eight heats having been completed last night . |
| 13 | This was a large rectangular building in the same tradition as the mortuary houses at Phourni , with a rabbit warren of small chambers inside and a colonnade along the east front ; it differs from the Phourni mortuary houses in having been built all at once . |
| 14 | The kitchen was small and cramped , the house having been built pre-war with a dining room which you were expected to eat in . |
| 15 | If a woman 's relationship with a man breaks down , and he abandons her , she will usually blame herself , having been taught that success in personal relationships is her responsibility . |
| 16 | Having been beaten 20-16 by Wakefield on their own Scatcherd Lane pitch in the North East final of the National Sevens Morley took part in a telephone toss-up with Waterloo , the North West runners-up . |
| 17 | In the delicate balance between trust and accountability , an Area Secretary should be confident that her/his report will always be acknowledged on the basis of its having been given serious attention . |
| 18 | Furthermore , we also need to keep in sight the fact that ‘ creativity ’ is itself an ambiguous concept , having been given various meanings and judged according to differing criteria depending on the context in which it has been studied . |
| 19 | The Commission had decided in July 1989 that serious transgressions of EC law had occurred in the allocation of contracts , with Danish interests having been given preferential treatment . |
| 20 | I do not remember there having been given such consideration and discussion to the constitution of any other body with which I have been associated . |
| 21 | On Aug. 14 , the remaining refugees , numbering about 2,000 , having been given clean clothes and food , and told , in an apparent change of heart by Italy , that they could stay while their cases were examined , were taken in small groups to reception centres in distant parts of the country . |
| 22 | Without it , your employer risks making decisions on the basis of inadequate information and you risk losing your job without having been given sufficient opportunity to convince management that you still have something to contribute . |
| 23 | their father 's land having been split three ways among his sons . |
| 24 | Thus , electoral districts in the United States must have , as far as is possible , an equal number of voters , since all men ( and women ) are considered by the US Constitution as having been created equal . |
| 25 | I stretched , grunting with pain as my leg muscles extracted their revenge for having been ignored twelve hours earlier . |
| 26 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 27 | Current chairman Nazmu Virani is on remand having been charged last week with conspiracy in connection with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 28 | ‘ Horatio Pugwash , you and your ruffianly companions having been found guilty of the abominable crime of smuggling , I sentence you to be taken from here to the Baddie 's Tower , and at dawn to Gallows Marsh , and there hanged by the neck . |
| 29 | Frederick Stebbing FCA of 30 Aldridge Rise , New Malden , Surrey having been found guilty of misconduct within the meaning of Bye-Law 76(a) in force at the material time and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in the Crown Court on 24 July 1991 pleaded guilty to an offence of dealing in securities of a company as a prohibited person contrary to Section 1(2) of the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 was censured and ordered to pay £350 by way of costs . |
| 30 | Annachamy Ganesh Aiyer FCA of 9 Cardiff Road , Luton , Beds having been found guilty of misconduct within the meaning of Bye-law 76(a) in force at the material time and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he at Luton between 8 January 1991 and 21 June 1991 passed clients ' monies through his firm 's office account was reprimanded , fined £750 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |