Example sentences of "having been [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time since 1951 the marchers were allowed to wear hoods in public , Georgia 's anti-mask law having been struck down by the Supreme Court on May 25 as unconstitutional . |
| 2 | His loneliness had recently been underlined by the fact that Ramsay MacLure , having been kicked out by the painter and critic Robin Ironside , had moved in with Vaughan , forming with him a steady relationship that caused Minton to talk of finding his own house . |
| 3 | In 1979 , as a member of the Labour Party Young Socialists , I was gutted , as indeed we all were , when Labour lost the election having been brought down by the ‘ Tartan Tories ’ . |
| 4 | The amendment also provided for the election to public office of independents and candidates put forward by " organizations with recognized representation " , and allowed for the recreation of the post of Prime Minister ( the functions of this post having been taken over by the President in 1979 ) . |
| 5 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |
| 6 | The census of 1785 confirms that the Titfords were still on Pig Street , not having been driven out by the noise of falling stone or splintering wood ; not that noise would have been anything unusual for them — they already had Thomas Addams ' blacksmith 's shop down the street , and the ringing sound of metal on metal emanating from there must have mingled nicely with the constant clip-clop of horses ' hooves as Henry Webley went about his business as the Bristol carrier a few doors away . |