Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] been [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 2 | The path was in fact too wide , the width having been determined by the machinery . |
| 3 | On the night of 16–17 March 1944 , for example , a ship left Funchal with a doctor and 1,206 Madeirans , all bound for Curação , their passage having been paid by the petroleum company . |
| 4 | P&O Group Head Office and Central Services staff who have completed one years service at 1 April following the year to which the incentive relates and who are in company service on the payment date , will be eligible for a bonus subject to a set target of profitability having been achieved by the Group . |
| 5 | Among the Bush campaign 's problems were the President 's lack of domestic achievements or a clear aims for a second term ; a shortage of tangible foreign policy achievements or objectives ( the success of the Gulf war having been marred by the continuance in power of Saddam Hussein ) ; the depressed state of the US economy ( unemployment figures released in July showed that the total without work had risen to 7.8 per cent ) ; continuing reservations over the choice of Dan Quayle as Vice-President ; and growing rumours that the President 's apparent lack of appetite for the election campaign was symptomatic of serious ill-health — although Bush sought to dispel the " crazy rumours " surrounding his campaign . |
| 6 | On March 15 the King formally appointed a 292-member National Legislative Assembly ( NLA ) , the membership having been named by the NPKA . |
| 7 | The interim legislative body was condemned as phoney , membership having been determined by the Americans ; it contained no representatives of workers or peasants but instead represented the sordid interests of Korean capitalism . |
| 8 | Britain does not have a national police force under the control and direction of a central government department , any such notion having been rejected by the Royal Commission on the Police in 1962 . |
| 9 | Drinks were served to members of the club by Taffe until the early hours of the morning , without any extension having been granted by the licensing magistrates . |
| 10 | Is this just the state having been convinced by the academics ' own rhetoric about themselves , or hoping that the academics will actually be prepared to keep their own house in order ( for instance , by closing down a course of their own volition ) ? |
| 11 | Under its rights accumulation programme ( this approach having been endorsed by the IMF Interim Committee in May 1990 and first applied to Zambia in April 1991 ) , Peru could accumulate rights up to the equivalent of SDR207,900,000 ( US$282,000,000 ) by December 1991 . |
| 12 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 13 | Instantly switching targets , Angel One drove a quick punch at Satan 's flank as the dog fell back , his attack having been deflected by the forearm block . |
| 14 | Transportation had been virtually abandoned in 1853 and then abolished in 1857 , although with a great show of reluctance , the government 's hand having been forced by the refusal of the Australian colonies to accept any more convicts . |
| 15 | Maybe a visiting foreign seaman , whose unitiated brain having been blitzed by the local rough cider failed to appreciate a gem of cutting local humour . |
| 16 | Perkin , on her other side , murmured something to get her attention and for a while I watched Tremayne make the best of our table having been graced by the sponsor 's wife , a gushing froth of a lady in unbecoming lemon . |
| 17 | Should twelve months have expired from date of service , without judgment having been entered by the plaintiff on an admission , the action is struck out and can not be revived . |
| 18 | In the larger craters there will be some upward movement of the crater floor towards isostatic equilibrium , material having been removed by the impact over a wide region . |
| 19 | In Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate [ 1965 ] AC 75 , HL , the company was successful in its claim for compensation against the Crown for the destruction of its installations in Burma during the Second World War , the destruction having been ordered by the commander of British forces to prevent the installations falling into the hands of the advancing Japanese forces . |