Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been overruled by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) hierarchy and the spending ministries on requested budget cuts , Solchaga had regained the initiative through these measures of financial and trade liberalization . |
| 2 | Having been groped by the Croatian National Guard , the friends parted company , the press to their pens on the platform 's left hand , Joshua to sit among the delegates of his local Party . |
| 3 | A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post . |
| 4 | Quinn , they would say , was standing still , having been overhauled by the main group but able to see what had happened up the road , shaking his head in disbelief and murmuring ‘ No … no … no . ’ |
| 5 | The funding of non-university higher education ( i.e. polytechnics and colleges of higher education ) now gives them similar autonomy , having been transferred by the 1988 Education Reform Act from local authority to central government responsibility , with a Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council ( PCFC ) parallel to the UFC . |
| 6 | There are two volcanoes today , Eldfell having been created by the 1973 eruption and joining Helgafell to create a twin pair of cones to the south-east of the new town . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
| 9 | The ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the church of York was thought of as having been advanced by the military conquests of successive northern kings . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Though now a shell , having been stabilized by the British Historic Buildings Trust , Pell Wall still offers great potential for a number of uses . |