Example sentences of "having been [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The project director , Marilyn Standley , commented : ‘ The building is being designed to reflect the personality and concerns of the company and its staff , and we are delighted at having been awarded such a high environmental score . ’ |
| 5 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
| 6 | Sex having been invented this way ( and later used to help the individual to develop disease resistance and the species to evolve more quickly ) a new problem arose : when an egg and a sperm fused during sex , a battle ensued between them to monopolise the resulting offspring . |
| 7 | We would n't have chosen to move back into town at this time , but having been offered such a good space , we did n't want to turn it down . |
| 8 | Soon , all twenty children were in their beds , stiff in their laundered nightgowns , without having been offered any supper , nor even as much as a sly sip of water . |
| 9 | Having been started some ten years earlier , they were substantially complete by the early 1680s . |
| 10 | Which was more than she could say for Uriah Colclough , a spare , already balding man in his mid-thirties who , having been torn all his life between a religious vocation and a natural Colclough desire to make money , lived like an industrialist but dressed like a vicar . |