Example sentences of "of having [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This miraculous event caused Massaccio immediately to repent his past life , and he became a Benedictine monk , dying at a great age with the reputation of having led a saintly life in his chosen monastery . |
| 2 | The " feeling of knowing " offered either when drunk , drugged , drowsy or asleep is no reliable indication of having achieved a real solution to a problem ; there are unfortunately no short cuts in that direction ! |
| 3 | The psychological structure for the talker requires , broadly speaking , two kinds of pretence : ( 1 ) an emotional one of having made a momentous decision and ( 2 ) a fictitious factual background . |
| 4 | But the Prime Minister also sought to reject the charge of having created a selfish society . |
| 5 | South Africa , for their part , dignified in defeat , can bask in the afterglow of their second coming , content in the knowledge of having bridged a great divide . |
| 6 | Serious rioting broke out in Los Angeles on April 29 after four white officers of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) were unexpectedly acquitted of having assaulted a black motorist , Rodney King , in March 1991 . |
| 7 | In the latter , pupils succeed or ‘ pass ’ if they reach certain levels of competence : they are expected to give evidence of having reached a particular level of performance regardless of how they stand in relation to their peers . |
| 8 | The Sunday Citizen explained his enthusiasm for the Profumo affair because of a long-cherished personal grudge against Profumo and of having unearthed a juicy scandal by snooping that would have done credit to a divorce detective . |
| 9 | I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs . |
| 10 | ‘ But you see , since I spoke to her , we have had another witness 's account of having seen a yellow Datsun in the Goring area . |
| 11 | Yet the sense of having missed a once-on-a-lifetime boat remains acute . |
| 12 | For many , the sense of having to adopt a preferred version of practice accentuated the dilemmas which are always part of everyday teaching . |
| 13 | The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time . |
| 14 | Such a consideration raises the prospect of having to run a surplus budget at the same time as cutting taxes . |
| 15 | If that commitment is not made , the Government stand condemned of having betrayed a whole generation of the poorest people in our society by taking away their only means of escaping from poverty , access to education opportunity . |
| 16 | Apparently uncertain as to camera angles , Witchell and the others frequently gave the impression of having spotted a lesbian stalking across the floor . |
| 17 | When it was revealed that the 14 candidates polling the least votes and thus threatened with exclusion from the central committee included such notables as Abalkin , Shevardnadze , Ryzhkov , Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov and CPSU international department head Valentin Falin , Gorbachev intervened with a proposal that they too should be deemed elected by virtue of having won a legitimate majority , this being accepted by the congress . |
| 18 | This cautionary tale produced a moment 's silence , as all those present contemplated the awful prospect of having to rewrite a large chunk of a book from memory . |
| 19 | You have the privilege of having found a lovely woman , privileged and — you know this better than I do unique . |
| 20 | Embryonic fibroblast culture and replication banding has the advantage of providing a large number of slides and mitotic cells which could be used for several different probes but the disadvantages of having to pool a considerable number of embryos for the initiation of the culture and a lack of knowledge as to the source and lineage of the cells which become established in culture . |
| 21 | Thus the desperate position which tended to be the teacher 's in the days of the Dalton Plan , with no help available , almost no bibliographic service for the location of likely materials , and the consequent necessity of having to produce a daily flood of work-sheets and data sheets , is no longer the case in schools sensibly organized . |
| 22 | Instead of having to write a customised interface each time a new inter-system link is required , Ericsson will be able to use HostBridge 's standard mechanism to transport the data . |
| 23 | They are most grateful for a pump within yards of their homes , instead of having to walk a long way to a dirty water-hole . |
| 24 | In recovering from our torture we take solace from the knowledge that we share with H G Wells , Oscar Wilde , William Butler Yeats , W Somerset Maugham , James Joyce , and many other writers the experience of having had a rotten rejection . |
| 25 | they may not feel open to accepting that person into the family , very aware of having to make a conscious effort to put aside prejudices and stereotypes in order to get to know , like and accept him or her . |