Example sentences of "having [been] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Perhaps the most entertaining tale came late afternoon , with anonymous telephone calls stating that a nosey employee of Marks & Spencer ( down 1 at 329p ) having been called in to deputy chairman Clinton Silver 's office , saw a piece of paper suggesting the retailer was set to bid the debt-laden supermarket group , Asda ( off ½ at 31p ) . |
| 2 | Certain sections , when they fall into deep shadow , give the effect of having been gouged out in order to show the interior as well as the exterior structure of the head . |
| 3 | The men , all of whom had been captured after having been shot down over enemy territory , gave their names , sent greetings to their families and made statements critical of the war . |
| 4 | The actual payment or receipt of the option premium is effected when the position is closed , at the rate prevailing at that time , with the difference between that and the option price at the outset having been made up by payments of variation margin . |
| 5 | It was their third attempt on the peak , having been repulsed twice by storms . |
| 6 | In 822/1459 , Molla Fenari performed the pilgrimage ; and , on his return , having been sought out by Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Sayf al-Din Shaykh ( 815–24/1412–21 ) , he entered Egypt . |
| 7 | On 12 March Mozart left Munich for Vienna , having been summoned there by Colloredo . |
| 8 | There is widespread disbelief among Germany 's camp followers , then , that tonight 's match may not be a complete sell-out at Ibrox in spite of thousands of tickets having been given away to youth organisations . |
| 9 | De Gaulle himself was far from fully informed about the detail of these plots , but he was aware of their existence , having been sounded out by people involved in them . |
| 10 | There were reports of opposition supporters having been fired on in Tbilisi the following day . |
| 11 | The intercommunal talks had reopened on Feb. 26 after having been broken off in July 1989 following an incident on the " green line " between the Greek and Turkish sectors of the island , when more than 100 Greek Cypriots were arrested by Turkish Cypriot police [ see p. 36822 ] . |
| 12 | ‘ At Mike Mahoney 's down in Marsh Street they were laying odds on thee having been cut up for cats-meat . ’ |
| 13 | I played dumb , having been cut off in mid-flow . |
| 14 | The A.87 passes alongside , having been cut out of rocks to follow the shoreline . |
| 15 | We arrive to witness a near riot — the dull hungry eyes of the children having been lit up by fear that the food is about to run out . |
| 16 | Twenty-one of the 53 schemes led to CSE examinations , six of these having been devised initially by LEAs . |
| 17 | By the end of March about 40 tons of ore lay on the bank , having been carted down from Paddy End , and was ready for dressing . |
| 18 | Yet three years earlier , at the important siege of nearby Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte , the French had used thirty-two cannons , gunstones for them having been conveyed there in carts and by packhorse . |
| 19 | The connection between the visible and the tangible is conceived by Berkeley as having been set up by God . |
| 20 | Safeguards for the Spanish steel industry were incorporated in an additional protocol , the talks having been held up over Spain 's concern that cheap steel exports from the three countries would disrupt its domestic industry . |
| 21 | And having been brought up outside Scotland , I think I can relate to it . |
| 22 | Having been brought up as patriots , they were benumbed at the thought that there was to be a conflict between their country and all the beliefs that they held dear . |
| 23 | Roger was ordered to appoint a suffragan bishop ‘ knowing the language ’ , a hint perhaps that Roger himself ( having been brought up in France ? ) did not . |
| 24 | Those who observed the Scots without the disadvantages of succumbing to rheumatism or feeling the humiliation of having failed to conquer them — or having been brought up in luxury in France — could see beyond the poverty to these characteristics . |
| 25 | Some owls are unable to return to the wild , having been brought up by breeders . |
| 26 | In 1369 a trebuchet , used for slinging stones , was employed at the siege of La-Roche-sur-Yon , and in 1356–7 another was in evidence at the siege of Rennes ; as late as 1378 another was in use before Cherbourg , having been brought there in pieces and assembled on the spot . |
| 27 | The contacts between the Lemass and O'Neill governments were seen as having been brought about by pressure from Britain , and as a result ‘ O'Neill has got his orders to play down discrimination ’ . |
| 28 | His images have definitely earned themselves a place in the visual language of the past two decades , having been published frequently in newspapers , pamphlets and on postcards , though the claim in a recent press release that his Haywain with Cruise Missiles image was now almost as well known as the original painting by Constable does seem a little far-fetched . |
| 29 | One of the first brass mills in the region was set up by Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) in 1702 , but by 1930 the industry was extinct in the area , having been taken over by Birmingham . |
| 30 | The voting system , based on modified proportional representation , was complex , having been established only in June [ see p. 38305 ] after prolonged disagreements between President Lech Walesa and the outgoing parliament . |