Example sentences of "having [verb] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having given a sketchy account of his early career , he notes that he became kazasker in 863/1458–9 and was then removed from that post in 871/1466–7 . |
| 2 | Having given a brief overview of the social incidence , or the pattern of recorded crime , we will turn now to some of the problems involved in the use of criminal statistics . |
| 3 | Nature was never especially kind to Leith in regard to the formation of the harbour , having placed a large stretch of sand across the mouth of the stream and with no sheltered bay or inlet , the approaches were often hazardous . |
| 4 | Having enjoyed a remarkable degree of freedom for several years it was now hard to relinquish areas of control . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time . |
| 7 | Having located a good root of title , you then need to form a chain of title from the date of that document right up to the present time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Now , having regained a little strength of her own , she seemed cruelly intent on conquering him . |
| 10 | The commercial men resented thus having to create a negative image of their product , but this was the least the industry could do to allay government criticism that they were expanding more rapidly than resources allowed . |
| 11 | Having made a perfect pain of myself ( not very hard ) on the Edelrid stand last year , it 's good to see their Full Carbon Helmet now has elastic and a headtorch clip front and back . |
| 12 | Lucker returns from town , having made a whole tribe of redneck friends who for once put away their normal prejudices for the sake of broadening their knowledge . |
| 13 | Sheridan , universally unpopular and having made a boorish fool of himself yet again , looked predictably furious . |
| 14 | James Macrae 's wealth is shown also by his having lent a large sum of money to Glasgow City Council in 1745 to assist the city through financial difficulties created by requisitions enforced on the city by Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite army as they retreated northwards to Culloden and defeat . |
| 15 | His division , having seen a great deal of dogged fighting on and around Ruweisat before the Alamein offensive , had been lightly engaged in the great action itself , though of course , their guns took part in the famous opening barrage . |
| 16 | At the Snack Shack , chef Kevin Polson , 24 , admits to having seen a fair bit of violence , ranging from someone pulling a gun on him to rugby fans forming a scrum in his shop and going through the glass counter . |
| 17 | Having got a rough draft of a solution , now write it out neatly and in a logically developed manner so that you will be able to read and understand your solution in 6 months time . |
| 18 | Le Corbusier , with Gropius and Lubetkin , have been described as having had a poetic vision of a future society , organised along egalitarian and emancipatory lines , supported by modern technology . |
| 19 | He had read some of the more discreet passages for the evening audience , having had a last-minute change of plan . |
| 20 | ‘ He is still vertical , ’ Roxburgh observed after having had a significant portion of his squad put on horizontal hold . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Details of a promotion were discussed with the manager , a promotion in which he expected to do well having sold a considerable amount of Stoddard Templeton carpet . |
| 23 | Having reached a certain level of proficiency , I decided to experiment with mathematical curves for my bowl designs , combining my interest in mathematics and the belief that the best solutions are often associated with simplicity . |
| 24 | All major WordPerfect products will be developed for IBM OS/2 2.0 Although technically superior to Microsoft Windows and even offering Windows 3.0 software compatibility , OS/2 suffers from not having a large enough software base and not yet having reached a critical mass of users . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The latter , s.92(1) ( f ) , a sweeping up provision , would include , for example , ‘ any pond , pool , ditch , gutter or watercourse prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ , designated a statutory nuisance by s.259(1) ( a ) , and under s.101 certain smoke nuisances , the Clean Air Act 1956 having introduced a new system of control over emissions from chimneys but retained certain emissions as statutory nuisances subject to the control of the 1936 Act . |
| 27 | For many , the sense of having to adopt a preferred version of practice accentuated the dilemmas which are always part of everyday teaching . |
| 28 | Having spent a healthy proportion of his personal wealth in a bid to provide a Premier Division platform for the club , figures show the public are not responding through the Dens Park turnstiles . |
| 29 | Having spent a great deal of time on learning to hover in the ‘ safe base ’ position , you will reach a point where your carefully acquired reflexes begin to work against you . |
| 30 | The two officers outside , having spent a great deal of time and effort befriending the young boxer dogs Lila kept to ward off unwanted guests , scratched at the kitchen door in imitation of the dogs . |