Example sentences of "having been [verb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Countess of Huntingdon 's Methodist Connexion , founded in the mid-18th century , was yet another Calvinistic organisation , we may note with interest ; what with Robert Titford being baptised at one of their chapels , and his sister Elizabeth having been registered with the Zion congregation in Frome , Calvinism seems once again to have cast its shadow across the family , even into the 19th century . |
| 2 | In 1959 Dean Martin turned up in a Sinatra film , Some Come Running , having been wandering in the Hollywood wilderness since breaking up with his former screen buddy Jerry Lewis . |
| 3 | Part of the answer is that there is a lot of fiscal juggling in the R&D accounts , with a great deal of large-scale engineering and demonstration work of the federal government — especially on matters related to energy — having been scuttled by the Reagan administration as inappropriate for the government . |
| 4 | Two bilateral United States-Soviet treaties , the Threshold Test Ban Treaty signed in July 1974 [ see pp. 26614-15 ] and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty signed in May 1976 [ see pp. 27813-14 ; 36060 ] , limiting underground explosions to 150 kilotons or less , were ratified by the USSR Supreme Soviet on Oct. 9 , having been ratified by the US Senate on Sept. 25 . |
| 5 | Mr Simon Heffer argued in last week 's Spectator that welfarism is once more coming to characterise the British , having been repulsed during the Thatcher years : ‘ The plaintive , dependent-relative voice of the something-for-nothing society , heard on almost every street in this campaign , was a little harder to find five years ago . ’ |
| 6 | With the current leases due to expire in September 1991 , talks between the two sides began in May 1990 [ see p. 37458 ] , having been delayed by the December 1989 coup attempt . |
| 7 | If a Bill is passed by the Commons in two successive sessions having been rejected by the Lords , it can be presented for the Royal Assent provided that one year has elapsed between the date of its second reading in the Commons in the first session and the date of its passing by the Commons in the second session . |
| 8 | Such was the reach of Rugby League : having been founded at the George Hotel in Huddersfield in 1890 , it had now reached Kempsey , twelve or thirteen thousand miles distant . |
| 9 | The commode was a relatively recent Patiño purchase , having been acquired at the Deane F. Johnson sale at Christie 's , New York in 1980 for $240,000 ( £133,300 ) . |
| 10 | Under its rights accumulation programme ( this approach having been endorsed by the IMF Interim Committee in May 1990 and first applied to Zambia in April 1991 ) , Peru could accumulate rights up to the equivalent of SDR207,900,000 ( US$282,000,000 ) by December 1991 . |
| 11 | He understood , he said , that the groom had been attacked earlier , in Toronto , when he foiled the kidnapping of a horse , but he had insisted on making the journey nevertheless , having been bandaged by a Miss Richmond . |
| 12 | This section will not cause the remittance basis to cease to be available or cause income to be treated as having been remitted to the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | The 1000 or so members of the meek class who presented themselves at the conference , were , suitably enough , unruffled by having been shunted from the Sorbonne to the techno-chic sidings at Porte de la Villette . |
| 14 | Despite the referendum result , opponents of the change argued that the vote was only an opinion poll and had no legal force ; the original decision to name the city after Lenin having been taken by the USSR Supreme Soviet , they claimed , it could only be rescinded by its modern equivalent — the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 15 | exerts a strong indirect influence on the other ten African departments , all of these having been established by the DET or one of its predecessors before being granted ‘ independence ’ . |
| 16 | Widely expected to have won last year 's Turner Prize , which was , in fact , awarded to Grenville Davey , Wilding is , nevertheless , enjoying a high profile , with a museum exhibition of ten sculptures from the last ten years having been organised by the Newlyn Art Gallery , where it was seen in March , and now transferred to IKON in Birmingham ( to 5 June ) . |
| 17 | He gave visual expression to the same point during his entry into the city , when the procession included cartloads of weapons which criers identified as having been captured from the Woodvilles . |
| 18 | He gave visual expression to the same point during his entry into the city , when the procession included cartloads of weapons which criers identified as having been captured from the Woodvilles . |