Example sentences of "[prep] having been [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erwin Guzmán Gutiérrez , one of the country 's leading drug traffickers thought to be closely linked with the Colombian Calí cartel , surrendered on July 11 after having been given a guarantee of " juridical security " . |
| 2 | Consulting sex manuals might help , but one of the benefits of having been married a number of years should be a deeper understanding of your partner and of what will give pleasure . |
| 3 | Answering a question is a reaction to having been asked a question . |
| 4 | For instance , if the directors of the smaller company have had to issue consideration shares at a significant discount to the market price in order to persuade shareholders of the larger company to accept the offer the minority may argue that not only have they been diluted unfairly but also that this has resulted in control passing into the hands of third parties and that they are , effectively , investors in an entirely different company without having been given the opportunity to accept an offer or exercise their rights of challenge under CA 1985 , s430C . |
| 5 | Eden was so angry at having been made a fool of that the Director General of MI6 , Sir John ‘ Sinbad ’ Sinclair , was obliged to retire prematurely and was replaced by the head of MI5 , Sir Dick White . |
| 6 | After World War two , a lot of people hoped that the we 'll call them the less agreeable characteristics of the German mind , would be changed by the traumatic experiences of the second total defeat in twenty years , physical destruction , national humiliation , embarrassment at having been made the collaborators of nazism and so on . |