Example sentences of "having [verb] a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another thing that cut me off from the other kids was going to the grammar school — and having to wear a bright green blazer every day . |
| 2 | Further detention can only be authorised in the case of a person who is suspected of having committed a serious arrestable offence . |
| 3 | Having read that I immediately repent me in dust and ashes for having committed a dreadful grammatical error . |
| 4 | Having expected a casual Italian place , Belinda was a little perturbed to realise that this was L'Epoque , Brisbane 's newest and most talked-about French restaurant , which must surely have required a booking in advance . |
| 5 | Young motorists face a Government clampdown including having to display a special plate to show they 're new to driving and the possibility of having to pass a tough new test if they 're found guilty of serious traffic offences . |
| 6 | Furthermore , to pursue this metaphor , having selected a particular spiritual decor and furnishings , those who live in it come to be influenced by its stylistic and symbolic properties as well as its more obvious functional or utilitarian appropriateness . |
| 7 | Slowly , common turns of speech , and thereby common turns of thought , are adopted , and the member drifts into conservatism without having made a conscious political choice . |
| 8 | This is in spite of the scientific advisory committee of its own research foundation having made a unanimous public statement that they believe smoking is a causative factor in several major diseases . |
| 9 | If Elisabeth condemned the municipality for not having commemorated a remarkable Danish woman , she blamed Holberg , Blicher , J.P . |
| 10 | This sort of interdependence of interests is a feature of the relations between industrialised countries ; having built a strong overseas market position , a country will be forced to take more account of external pressures if that strong position is to be maintained . |
| 11 | Having defeated a large Christian force , the Moorish Emir Yusuf orders the heads of his foes cut off and piled in mounds . |
| 12 | Having had a gruesome storm-tossed journey , his first act on landing was to fulfil his vow to travel barefoot to the nearest shrine in thanksgiving for his delivery ; the rheumatism which resulted was with him for the rest of his life — as was the sourness with which he regarded Scotland . |
| 13 | Having had a jinxed left back position it looks like we now have a jinxed central defender position ! |
| 14 | In other words , having had a previous similar sensation is a logically necessary condition of my apprehending a sensation of white as such , on Mill 's version of the resemblance doctrine . |
| 15 | It is he also who , just when the publisher is cock-a-hoop at having reprinted a hot new novel within a week of publication , will telephone the sales department earnestly requested a single copy of the first impression . |
| 16 | Savage , Evans and Savage ( 1981 ) could find no effects on reading performance of having introduced a one-handed fingerspelling system , though , not surprisingly , part of the difficulty arose in the methodology of the comparisons made . |
| 17 | So here we are today , almost at the end of a very long process , having experienced a wide ranging debate about the future of Greater York and numerous consultation exercises . |
| 18 | The product could prove a boon to existing SNA users who will be able to incorporate other protocols within their existing SNA networks rather than having to build a separate bridge-router-based backbone . |
| 19 | In June 1940 he had risen to a position of leadership as a result of extraordinary circumstances , to a degree by default ( because better-known people had either rallied to Pétain or done nothing ) , and certainly without having served a normal political apprenticeship . |
| 20 | But he finally slipped into Sydney and left having signed a lucrative new deal to assist Australian rugby 's new television broadcaster , Channel Ten , with their marketing of rugby for the next three years . |
| 21 | Although I 've trained and worked in this area since 1982 I am having to learn a whole new dimension that is multi-cultural . |
| 22 | Having survived a British pre-qualifying event last week for a wild card place in this week 's draw , Ahl said she felt she had nothing to lose against a player who is about 200 places higher in the world rankings . |
| 23 | Now , Maisie 's beloved son had grown much taller , possessed of the broad shoulders of a man , his face having acquired a gaunt handsome profile that held a certain arrogance . |