Example sentences of "having made a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The psychological structure for the talker requires , broadly speaking , two kinds of pretence : ( 1 ) an emotional one of having made a momentous decision and ( 2 ) a fictitious factual background . |
| 2 | ‘ I do not accept that David Trippier is supporting the action of the trade unions , or is asking me to go to arbitration , or expects that the management , having made a final offer , should move from that final offer . ’ |
| 3 | Having made a new table to replace a rather unsteady card table , there being no local shop which sold green baize , I opted for green Heuga carpet tiles . |
| 4 | Having made a perfect pain of myself ( not very hard ) on the Edelrid stand last year , it 's good to see their Full Carbon Helmet now has elastic and a headtorch clip front and back . |
| 5 | He also found that Locke , once having made a similar distinction , provided no good reason for belief in a world over and above the ideas we have of it . |
| 6 | South Korea formally submitted its application for UN membership on Aug. 5 , North Korea having made a similar application in July [ see p. 38341 ] . |
| 7 | He was sent down from Eton in 1863 for a few months for having made a forbidden visit to a Jesuit house . |
| 8 | Being Loppe , he solved the problem of protocol by returning silently to his role of major domo , having made a small accommodation with Galiot whom , after all , he had trained . |
| 9 | I think er , we need to er , look at this issue of carers far more rigorously , and I 'm very sad that the government , having made a great play about back to basics and er , encouraging family values , erm , are not in fact prepared er , to do something to er , alleviate unemployment by encouraging employers to make adequate provision to ensure that people with dependants can actually work . |
| 10 | Unfortunately they are not usually repeatable , so having made a superb jumper for your mother , you will probably be unable to make one for yourself . |
| 11 | Having made a tentative decision to come back to nursing , it would be similarly useful to compare your reasons for doing so in the light of the previous exercise . |
| 12 | If you do not have a microscope of your own , prepare a slide as above and take it , without delay , to a veterinary consultant specialising in fish diseases ( having made a prior appointment , since speed is of the essence ) . |
| 13 | People may drift into a job without ever having made a positive decision . |
| 14 | They are going to a planet celled Malecandra ( which turns out to be Mars ) and , having made a previous recce there , they are under the impression that the inhabitants are fierce and eat men . |
| 15 | Smaller companies or companies not having made a previous acquisition will often ask us to act as intermediaries . |
| 16 | Theoretically , it is conceivable that , say , experiencing regret ( the verb ) at having made a wrong decision and depicting regret ( the adjective ) are a different genre . |
| 17 | Slowly , common turns of speech , and thereby common turns of thought , are adopted , and the member drifts into conservatism without having made a conscious political choice . |
| 18 | The damage to the mast has been repaired and three Army officers , Garfield Smith , Nick Bate and Richard Nicholson , have joined the crew , Mandy Gallow and Tim Morris having made a scheduled return to duty . |
| 19 | This is in spite of the scientific advisory committee of its own research foundation having made a unanimous public statement that they believe smoking is a causative factor in several major diseases . |
| 20 | Lucker returns from town , having made a whole tribe of redneck friends who for once put away their normal prejudices for the sake of broadening their knowledge . |
| 21 | Having made a dignified protest , he returned to London . |
| 22 | ‘ One 's whole life is just a perpetual traffic between the grimness of reality and one 's fleeting dream of happiness , ’ Tchaikovsky had said , who had perished by being shopped by a forgotten grey jurist , who considered him a disgrace to the Legal Profession ( because he was gay ) , Tchaikovsky having made a false start in law . |
| 23 | Sheridan , universally unpopular and having made a boorish fool of himself yet again , looked predictably furious . |
| 24 | Bulgaria 's lack of a democratic tradition and organization was a stumbling block for the main opposition grouping , the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) , which was also seen as striking too negative a tone in its campaign , and as having made a tactical error in spending time campaigning abroad , thus exacerbating the UDF 's image as a party of the intellectual urban elite . |