Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [verb] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Caernarfon is the nearest building Wales has to a royal palace having been owned continuously by the Crown ever since Edward I established it in 1283 . |
| 2 | US President Bush apparently took his decision to attend the summit only after having been urged repeatedly by the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency , William Reilly . |
| 3 | The bill had been passed by the Senate on April 30 on a largely party-line vote of 58:42 , having been approved earlier by the House of Representatives by 259 votes to 165 . |
| 4 | The meeting between the councillors and local residents did not take place , despite this having been agreed unanimously by the Planning Committee . |
| 5 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |