Example sentences of "[v-ing] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know they wo n't consider me her kind , her havin' been to a fancy school , an' the typin' stuff an' all . |
| 2 | I 've served on that one , and the whole business of the organisation has generally speaking been run by the executive and not by a full council . |
| 3 | Provided the gift is at least £600 it will be regarded as having been paid net of basic rate tax . |
| 4 | Thoza Khonje , Malawi : released February 1991 , having been detained for two years after making remarks which were interpreted as critical of the Life President . |
| 5 | having been in the US 's ‘ back yard ’ I know how little attention is paid to those issues there . |
| 6 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
| 7 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 8 | Some see the conflict as having been crystallised by Proust , who wrote an attack on the critic Sainte-Beuve in 1908 ( though it was not published until 1954 ) . |
| 9 | The biographer may come up against problems of concealment , both written records and works having been destroyed . |
| 10 | Compared with what we find in Naipaul 's novel , however , Conrad 's Costaguana is a country of the mind : it has the air of having been built to accommodate his meanings . |
| 11 | The book has explained that , having been a murderer of unreliables for the Republicans , he was shot at by a rival and went straight back to Glasgow . ) |
| 12 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 13 | Chapter Five opens with the information : ‘ Ursula and Kenelm had known my parents for some time , having been introduced originally by a mutual friend . |
| 14 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 15 | That , his day 's toil having been deferred , he wanders through unfamiliar woods with unsure footsteps . |
| 16 | Inevitably , few Georgian beerhouses or coaching inns survive in anything like their original form , having been comprehensively extended or altered in subsequent decades . |
| 17 | ‘ Did I hear something , ’ said Cook frowning , ‘ about Lady Destry having been ill ? ’ |
| 18 | Almost immediately on arrival , surrounded by the cosmopolitan excitement of New York , its immense anonymity , the total lack of personal interest shown towards him after having been the centre of warmth and appreciation in Montreal , he knew that it was not for him . |
| 19 | By this time the Jewish community in Greece had dwindled to something like 6,000 ( from the 11,000 which remained after the Nazi occupation ; 75,000 having been liquidated ) . |
| 20 | He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1738 , having been proposed by Sir Hans Sloane and other eminent scientists of the day . |
| 21 | Having been inspired to create a ballet by any one of the sources mentioned , choreographers have to decide upon the appropriate materials with which to work . |
| 22 | The Eiger , Drummond hopes , having been claimed by Hitler after the Nordwand climb of 1936 , will thus become a world mountain . |
| 23 | Many of the dark rocks stand on limestone pedestals , the surrounding rocks having been eroded away . |
| 24 | The fact of these men 's having been guided argues a body of local botanical knowledge as early as the first part of the 17th century . |
| 25 | That the members of the quintet will be ‘ bound ’ to each other in secret guilt by the cement of blood , having been tricked into thinking Shatov is a danger and must be removed , is another and a promising rationalization which reveals a local shrewdness like Iago 's . |
| 26 | This is a practical guide to real-time programming , the programs provided having been tested and proved . |
| 27 | In 1983 , visiting a university in provincial Norway , I found students of English grappling perplexedly with Derrida , having been encouraged to do so by their British professor . |
| 28 | There might be regrets over giving up the novel , but after having been deeply interested in that form for many years ( even to the extent of writing one ) and often teaching courses on the novel , I have come to the conclusion that the pedagogic difficulties involved are extreme . |
| 29 | This is a poor harvest from those weeks or months that the Pounds spent in Sicily ; and indeed it is no harvest at all , since none of these allusions depends in any way on the poet 's having been physically present in the island . |
| 30 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |