Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 2 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 3 | system , there was a circular hole with red glass in the right hand one , the large oil lantern used at Gravesend , having been replaced by a hinged opening vent . |
| 4 | Having been blessed with a cold mother , did I seek a cold wife ? |
| 5 | Lewis , having been missed by a diving Moin after edging Akram , was yorked comprehensively at the other end . |
| 6 | The granting of peerages to former politicians , chiefs of the defence staff and so on has the effect of enhancing the status of those whose only achievement in life is having been engendered by a privileged set of loins . |
| 7 | At present , however , the festivities seem light years away , having been eclipsed by a fiscal crisis of mammoth proportions . |
| 8 | Athey , though having been exposed as a poor leader , could also , like Allan Lamb , be considered a good number two . |
| 9 | Second , there is personal experience of homoeopathy through having been treated by a homoeopathic doctor , or through having had a member of the family so treated , and being impressed by the results . |
| 10 | Mass is celebrated here at midday , the church having been reconsecrated after a long deconsecration period . |
| 11 | All too often their impressions are dismissed as false , having been based on a short , unrepresentative glimpse of part of a lesson , even thought they are usually expert at getting to the heart of the pupils ' experience in a particular classroom . |
| 12 | This may be the fact of their having been enacted by a specific body , or their long customary practice , or their relation to judicial decisions . |
| 13 | In 1415 , Hus was summoned to defend himself at the Council of Constance , having been assured of a safe conduct by the emperor Sigismund . |
| 14 | Thirty-one had been discharged by 1983 but with six of these patients having been transferred to a general hospital for physical illness and having subsequently died . |
| 15 | The bass has settled in well , with a good compromise having been achieved between a low action and — the enemy of 5-stringers everywhere — fretbuzz on the lower frets , which is barely noticeable here . |
| 16 | Details about dates of employment and health physics records were obtained for all parents confirmed as having been employed at a nuclear establishment before their child 's cancer was diagnosed ( or for controls , before the date of diagnosis of the corresponding case ) . |
| 17 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
| 18 | ( b ) Holding outsalaried partners In the United Bank of Kuwait case no particular consideration was given to the consequences of the undertaking having been given by a salaried partner . |
| 19 | " The Times " reported this evidence — which , having been given in a foreign court , was not protected by absolute privilege . |
| 20 | It had the same feeling of having been created for a special , mystical purpose . |
| 21 | The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success . |
| 22 | In one recent case the victim of a stabbing died two and a half years after the incident , having been kept on a life-support machine for almost the entire time . |
| 23 | Korea is an ancient country with a very lengthy period of having been governed as a unified area ( from AD 668 to 1945 ) . |
| 24 | The decoration around the windows and along the string-course is delightful , the corbels especially having been sculpted into a strange and compelling variety of animals , monsters and more or less human figures . |
| 25 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 26 | If not all temporary workers are distinguishable by having been recruited for a pre-determined period of time , we might ask how they are distinguishable . |
| 27 | I am not arguing that moral rights get their sole authority from contiguous laws , although they can , but rather that the existence of such laws , having been passed in a deliberative and ultimately democratic manner and being constantly under test by the legislature , is evidence that these types of transaction are important enough for the maintenance of civilised life as to require such formal recognition . |
| 28 | Glowering at having been woken from a satisfying doze , the guard opened the eye-level flap to find the Doctor 's eyes only an inch or two from his own . |
| 29 | Although the practice appears to vary , an entry may be entered on the proprietorship register , however , in the following form : Note : The land having been acquired under a voluntary conveyance dated made by [ donor ] the registered title is subject to the provisions of section 339 Insolvency Act 1986 if there is a purchase at an undervalue of unregistered land in a compulsory registration area . |
| 30 | Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton . |