Example sentences of "of having [vb pp] 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Yet the sense of having missed a once-on-a-lifetime boat remains acute . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Apparently uncertain as to camera angles , Witchell and the others frequently gave the impression of having spotted a lesbian stalking across the floor . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You have the privilege of having found a lovely woman , privileged and — you know this better than I do unique . |
| 15 | 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 . |