Example sentences of "[prep] having [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The food service design consultant , however , is a professional man who has been trained to be a designer after having gained a varied experience in the food service industry .
2 ‘ He is still vertical , ’ Roxburgh observed after having had a significant portion of his squad put on horizontal hold .
3 And if you change your mind after having taken a personal pension , you can switch back into SERPS ; or , if the scheme rules allow it , you can transfer your payments into a company contracted-out scheme .
4 Two went so far as to offer to reduce the metered fare after having taken a wrong turn in error .
5 Despite having come a close second to every junior side in the county at least once over the years , as the senior side in the tournament it is hardly surprising that Athletico should have done remarkably well .
6 This miraculous event caused Massaccio immediately to repent his past life , and he became a Benedictine monk , dying at a great age with the reputation of having led a saintly life in his chosen monastery .
7 The " feeling of knowing " offered either when drunk , drugged , drowsy or asleep is no reliable indication of having achieved a real solution to a problem ; there are unfortunately no short cuts in that direction !
8 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 .
9 But the Prime Minister also sought to reject the charge of having created a selfish society .
10 South Africa , for their part , dignified in defeat , can bask in the afterglow of their second coming , content in the knowledge of having bridged a great divide .
11 Serious rioting broke out in Los Angeles on April 29 after four white officers of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) were unexpectedly acquitted of having assaulted a black motorist , Rodney King , in March 1991 .
12 In the latter , pupils succeed or ‘ pass ’ if they reach certain levels of competence : they are expected to give evidence of having reached a particular level of performance regardless of how they stand in relation to their peers .
13 The Sunday Citizen explained his enthusiasm for the Profumo affair because of a long-cherished personal grudge against Profumo and of having unearthed a juicy scandal by snooping that would have done credit to a divorce detective .
14 I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs .
15 ‘ But you see , since I spoke to her , we have had another witness 's account of having seen a yellow Datsun in the Goring area .
16 Yet the sense of having missed a once-on-a-lifetime boat remains acute .
17 For many , the sense of having to adopt a preferred version of practice accentuated the dilemmas which are always part of everyday teaching .
18 The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time .
19 Such a consideration raises the prospect of having to run a surplus budget at the same time as cutting taxes .
20 If that commitment is not made , the Government stand condemned of having betrayed a whole generation of the poorest people in our society by taking away their only means of escaping from poverty , access to education opportunity .
21 Apparently uncertain as to camera angles , Witchell and the others frequently gave the impression of having spotted a lesbian stalking across the floor .
22 When it was revealed that the 14 candidates polling the least votes and thus threatened with exclusion from the central committee included such notables as Abalkin , Shevardnadze , Ryzhkov , Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov and CPSU international department head Valentin Falin , Gorbachev intervened with a proposal that they too should be deemed elected by virtue of having won a legitimate majority , this being accepted by the congress .
23 This cautionary tale produced a moment 's silence , as all those present contemplated the awful prospect of having to rewrite a large chunk of a book from memory .
24 You have the privilege of having found a lovely woman , privileged and — you know this better than I do unique .
25 Embryonic fibroblast culture and replication banding has the advantage of providing a large number of slides and mitotic cells which could be used for several different probes but the disadvantages of having to pool a considerable number of embryos for the initiation of the culture and a lack of knowledge as to the source and lineage of the cells which become established in culture .
26 Thus the desperate position which tended to be the teacher 's in the days of the Dalton Plan , with no help available , almost no bibliographic service for the location of likely materials , and the consequent necessity of having to produce a daily flood of work-sheets and data sheets , is no longer the case in schools sensibly organized .
27 Instead of having to write a customised interface each time a new inter-system link is required , Ericsson will be able to use HostBridge 's standard mechanism to transport the data .
28 They are most grateful for a pump within yards of their homes , instead of having to walk a long way to a dirty water-hole .
29 In recovering from our torture we take solace from the knowledge that we share with H G Wells , Oscar Wilde , William Butler Yeats , W Somerset Maugham , James Joyce , and many other writers the experience of having had a rotten rejection .
30 they may not feel open to accepting that person into the family , very aware of having to make a conscious effort to put aside prejudices and stereotypes in order to get to know , like and accept him or her .
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