Example sentences of "having [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the only things worth having are the things you 've worked hard for , and I 'll last out , I daresay , so do n't you worry , girl ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | previously having been the project co-ordinator of the Hackney Agency for Music Marketing Action ( HAMMA ) . |
| 4 | As a career move , it was a disaster : for the past 300 years , he has been remembered almost solely for having been the butt of some of Dryden 's most swingeing satirical couplets . |
| 5 | Charles Barry Junior , who chaired the lecture , spoke warmly of ‘ his great , his exceeding kindness to all those younger than himself ’ , having been the recipient of many instances of it in his own career . |
| 6 | The shop bell had tinkled frequently for the past hour , most of the customers having been the ha'penny and penny ones , some of whom were now standing outside at the shop window oohing and aahing at the Christmas goodies displayed there , all entwined with coloured streamers and illuminated by the two gas lamps attached to the side wall of the shop and plopping inside their pretty pink glass globes , while casting a rosy light overall , even over the small faces pressed against the window . |
| 7 | Now , having been the rebel from the NHS , I had turned maverick and become the rebel of Bristol . |
| 8 | Their concern was not that others might come here one day and identify the place as having been the kidnappers ' hideout ; rather , that those examiners would never discover who the kidnappers had been . |
| 9 | Having been the apple of Tom Tremayne 's eye , since his death Liza increasingly craved any man 's attention and admiration . |
| 10 | Tendring Council is one of the forerunners in dog control and advice , having been the first authority in Essex to employ a dog warden and introduce dog control byelaws , added Mr Coulter . |
| 11 | For , as we shall see , the topic we are about to review has many different strands , having been the subject of extensive and increasingly systematic enquiry from several different points of view that have taken it well beyond the realm of intuitive speculation from which it began . |
| 12 | Bert Röling , the Dutch international lawyer who died in early 1985 , having been the last surviving judge from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at Tokyo , addressed the nuclear weapons issue as much in terms of purported prudential policy-making as in terms of legal principle . |
| 13 | One could say that the sentence ‘ It was the knave of hearts who stole the tarts ’ puts the state of affairs of its having been the knave of hearts who stole the tarts upon the mat for discussion . |
| 14 | I regard as having been the greatest achievement of the English courts in my judicial lifetime . |
| 15 | Thus Justin Martyr , writing around A.D. 150 , speaks of those who regard Jesus as having been the Messiah , yet at the same time still a man . |
| 16 | Scott and his friend returned year after year in search of poetic treasure , and Scott is recorded as having been the first man ever to tackle the rough tracks into Liddesdale in a carriage . |
| 17 | The Parish Registers record his burial on 5th September 1597 , and both they and his will testify to his having been the Master . |
| 18 | November 1985 saw the retirement of Mr. Joe Blackshaw , who had completed 20 years as Caretaker , having been the groundsman for the previous 20 . |
| 19 | Alix , naturally , was almost ( but not quite ) overwhelmed with guilt , at not grieving enough , at not having been the perfect wife , at having ceased to love Sebastian . |
| 20 | In Steele v. Williams , the judgment of Martin B. was certainly on the basis that the money , having been the subject of an ultra vires demand by a public officer , was as such recoverable . |
| 21 | Richard Stratford of Farmcote , in Guiting Power parish , Gloucestershire , having been the king 's painter , was granted arms in 1484 . |
| 22 | To Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717–18 ) , son of a Saxon cobbler , who rose to be a friend of cardinals and custodian of their books and antiquities , belongs the honour of having been the first and , in some ways , the most influential of these " thorough-going Romantics " . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's admitted having been the lad person to see His Royal Highness , ’ he said sulkily . |
| 24 | Harry had driven his friend over and was in boisterous good spirits at having been the first person to be allowed to take George away from the house . |
| 25 | The ruling People 's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) held its second congress on June 27-29 ( the first having been the founding congress in January 1965 ; for national conferences in 1982 and 1987 see pp. 31541 ; 35783-84 ) . |
| 26 | Le Pen , meanwhile , had been cleared by a Versailles court on July 2 of " publicly insulting " the Minister for Public Services , Michel Durafour in September 1988 , by using the word-play " Durafour-crematoire " ( " four crematoire " having been the normal description for the furnaces used for burning bodies in Nazi Germany ) [ see pp. 36230 ; 37683 ] . |
| 27 | Well Spinks did well to win the place from the young Australian this season with Bosnich having been the man in possession of the goalkeeper 's gloves most of last season . |
| 28 | There was a report on Bill Proudfoot 's departure from Australia in August 1968 , having been the Manager since 1961 . |
| 29 | In ( 145 ) and ( 146 ) , the subject of cause is clearly a condition , and the to infinitive evokes its consequence : the causal agent is not conceived as actually doing anything in either of these sentences but merely as having been the condition giving rise to a new state of affairs . |
| 30 | On Monday 18th June sixty people met in Painters ' Hall in the City to take part in a ‘ tutored wine tasting ’ of sparkling wines , under the most knowledgeable guidance of Pamela Vandyke Price , author and wine journalist of fabulous expertise , whose distinctions include having been the first woman admitted on equal terms into the male-dominated world of wine . |