Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [adv] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Psychologists have a fairly negative attitude to theories , having been badly scarred by the experience of the grand theories of behaviour published in the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 2 | The VNODD as well as the communists had already been involved in fomenting strikes but on the whole they do not seem to have attached themselves to any cause other than nationalism and , while they were particularly active in attempting to subvert the army , when they finally and out of desperation , having been heavily penetrated by the Sûreté , attempted to begin their armed struggle , many of the Vietnamese riflemen in the battalion , which was induced to mutiny , rallied instead to their French officers . |
| 3 | There is little to be gained from looking at the past achievements of a school if the head and the governors treat their task as having been totally defined by the Education Reform Act . |
| 4 | One of the earliest was Oleg Penkovsky , a lieutenant-colonel in the GRU , who approached MI6 in 1960 with offers of information after having been twice rebuffed by the CIA . |
| 5 | Franklin died of cancer 20 March 1958 in London , having been initially struck by the disease in 1956 . |