Example sentences of "having [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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31 Essex and Middlesex are similar in membership numbers , 8,500 and 9,000 respectively , and in relative performance although Essex is larger in absolute terms , having successfully exploited the scope from ownership of its own ground .
32 Thus , in 1202 at the Lincolnshire Assize , the defendant was acquitted of rape , having successfully argued in his defence that ‘ tunc et prius et post fuit succuba eius ’ — she had lain with him both before and afterwards .
33 Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years .
34 Oates is not without experience , having successfully campaigned a variety of cars in production saloons , also winning the 1991 class championship of the Ward Replicar Series .
35 Having successfully applied the rules , and stuck to them , then the individual is not generally subject to exit charges and can fully use the tax advantages presented .
36 They spot their prey from the air and , having successfully visited the pool , continue to do so until all the sizeable fish have been taken .
37 Having successfully made the leap from television to the silver screen , she 's come a long way from her origins in Nowheresville , Nevada , but then Nowheresville , Nevada , sounds a little like Twin Peaks .
38 Paddy Mayne 's veteran A Squadron returned from the Great Sand Sea to Kufra for a few days in mid-November , having successfully raided airfields around Gazala , familiar territory from the past .
39 Having successfully manoeuvred an inoffensive farewell , one discovers that one has left a book in the room .
40 Having successfully demonstrated the safety of his method of treatment so that it was being adopted by inoculators throughout the country Sutton had already unwittingly performed his greatest service in the fight against smallpox .
41 Having successfully worked himself out of the job of CBN 's Beirut correspondent , Coleman went back to the Middle East in December 1985 , as Condor Television Ltd , a one-man production company with an ‘ office ’ in the Kastantiana hotel , Larnaca , Cyprus .
42 The message seemed to be that women who are raped are at fault for not having successfully avoided it .
43 Having successfully seconded through the Task Force one manager to refurbish industrial estates in Knowsley and Kirkby , United Biscuits promptly closed a food-processing plant at Knowsley with the loss of 2,000 jobs .
44 The Milan Congress of 1880 , having successfully removed deaf people from teaching positions in deaf schools , was now seeing the process being carried a little further by quite unintentionally closing the doors on employment of deaf people as missioners .
45 Cynewulf , king of the West Saxons , having successfully vanquished his rival , Sigeberht ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) , was clearly in a strong enough position to advance into Berkshire , an area previously controlled by Aethelbald .
46 A very small minority of students remained for a fourth year and , having successfully negotiated a third year examination hurdle , were candidates for an unclassified B.Ed degree of the University of Birmingham , and carried with them our hopes for a future graduate profession .
47 Having eventually gained planning permission , we have now launched in earnest our appeal for funds to create a suitable memorial to her — a campsite at Harrison 's Rocks near her home in , E. Sussex , where she taught climbing with her husband Terry .
48 ( 2 ) Where an applicant for the grant of a licence or an objector there to : ( a ) has , through inadvertence or misadventure , failed to comply with any of the preliminary requirements of this Act ; or ( b ) having duly lodged his application or objection , has died before the meeting of the board at which such application or objection was to have been heard ; the board may , if it thinks fit , and upon such terms as the board thinks proper , postpone the consideration of the application or objection to an adjourned meeting .
49 On National day John Kempton also had a runner at Worcester — Three Dons in a novice hurdle — and opted to take the ride there : having duly won , he settled down in the jockeys ' changing room to watch the National on television , safe in the knowledge that his father Jack was at Liverpool to supervise Foinavon 's forlorn attempt .
50 We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything .
51 How will other members of society benefit from having expensively financed their being there ?
52 In 1963 , having perhaps insulted one Prime Minister too many in the run-up to a general election , TW3 was taken off the air , although it was stoutly defended by Hugh Greene .
53 As far as Mr Collier 's point er alternative policies concerned , I think listening to it and only half having perhaps digested the full implication , I think really as a matter of principle we 're not un unsympathetic to a lot of what what a lot of people are suggesting there .
54 The guilt people feel at having perhaps contributed to the illness or accident can be overwhelming .
55 It was these crafts — cordwainers , girdlers , fishmongers , wool-packers , for example — which formed the heart of the popular movement , having greatly expanded in numbers during the previous hundred years yet been excluded from political power and forbidden to organize by the aldermen .
56 For this reason they can not cope with climates having greatly extended winters .
57 He was omnipotent and instrumental in the fertilisation of the earth , having divinely bestowed the first rain .
58 Having prematurely begun campaigning against Bush , however , he was forced to refocus his campaign on Brown , whom he attacked for advocating a taxation system which would favour the rich .
59 Indeed , they have been embarrassed by them , having so internalized the epistemological criteria of positivism , empiricism and pragmatism .
60 Until 1966 the House of Lords was also bound by its own previous decisions having so decided in London Street Tramways v.
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