Example sentences of "[noun sg] having [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Senator McCarthy 's campaign against treason in the State Department having just got under way this may hardly have been the best time for dispassionate analysis although , if it is not too academic a point , one can not help comparing these propositions with an earlier assessment ( 13 October 1948 ) . |
| 2 | The Collector had been unable to see the latter part of this action , which had taken place in thick yellow dust and smoke ( the snow having mysteriously ceased ) . |
| 3 | Spare parts held as a general stock having originally cost £790 . |
| 4 | Reifenhauser K.G. Maschinenfabrik where discovery procedures were in their third year , the defendant having already answered two sets of interrogatories without taking any point about the applicability of the Convention . |
| 5 | By contrast , we see Tradescant lying on his newly sheeted bed , washed and with beard neatly trimmed , wearing a superfine linen shroud of the highest quality , the top-knot having now become nothing more than a small tassel attached to the linen itself . |
| 6 | With the Spanish Air Force having just retired the remainder of their Caribou fleet , the number of these workhorses are available for the civilian or governmental market is increasing . |
| 7 | The Swiss competitor is a talented athlete having recently returned from the Winter Paralympics in France where he took part in the cross country sledging . |
| 8 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 9 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 10 | Black chat Having never read your magazine until FACE 49 , I was pleasantly surprised at how many features were about black people . |
| 11 | People were dashing along the roads in their night attire having just thrown on coats , my father went off first , next my mother and my Aunt Gertrude who lived with us . |
| 12 | Border , too , it is rumoured , is nearing the end of his career and could easily survive at great profit in the county scene having also tasted life in England with Essex . |
| 13 | The Apple boutique closed down after only eight months , most of the clothing having simply vanished . |
| 14 | The girl having once experienced a fairy lovemaking is no longer contented in this world , and will pine and die for her fairy lover . |
| 15 | The celebration of Artai 's Khanate having properly commenced , the common people were anxious to come close to the path of their newly enthroned lord through their city . |
| 16 | At each attempt John invariably left the home having completely ignored what I was saying . |
| 17 | The homes of known Duvalierists were attacked as were several Roman Catholic properties , the Church establishment having long expressed its opposition to Aristide . |
| 18 | Wherever the game is played , and the possibility of alternate years in Manchester and Sydney will be discussed in the coming weeks , one team will always go into the match having just become champions , while the other will be at the start of their first defence . |
| 19 | I write with some conviction on acid rain having recently attended a well organised meeting on the subject in the Upper House . |
| 20 | From Cassell comes Richard Bird 's Complete Book of Hardy Perennials ( June , £20 , 0 7063 7076 7 ) , the same author having already appeared in the Batsford list with Propagation of Hardy Perennials ( March , £19.99 , 0 7134 7062 3 ) . |
| 21 | As notified at the nine months , however , General Accident has now withdrawn from non-marine treaty business having significantly reduced its exposure to that section of the London Market earlier in the year . |
| 22 | Daddy having recently popped it , my wife was comfortably off in her own right , and she did a deal by which , in exchange for her making no financial demands on me , I would make no attempt to see my daughters ever again : the corrupting influence was to be kept away . |
| 23 | The UN report blamed the army , the police and right-wing death squads for 12,000 disappearances since 1983 , confirmed that this was " by far the highest number recorded by the working group for any single country " , and suggested that there could still be many more ( a European Parliament team having recently reported its own estimate of 60,000 killed or missing ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Like his lovely lady wife having inadvertently poisoned off his star pupil , you mean ? |
| 25 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 26 | With the court having recently begun to reverse key aspects of civil rights legislation and to undermine the constitutional foundation of the right to abortion , many liberals opposed the appointment of Thomas . |
| 27 | The component subskills can then be described as being automatised — the movements occur as the position of the pen demands them , without the writer having consciously to calculate them . |
| 28 | City of Edinburgh are the only unbeaten team in the division having already accounted for Livingston , who , in turn , exacted their revenge in the cup semi-final . |
| 29 | Mr. Howell submitted that Parliament having expressly dealt with the case of an admissions policy designed to preserve the character of the school in subsections ( 3 ) ( b ) and ( 6 ) , it was not open to the school ( even though over-subscribed ) to apply such a policy under section 6(3) ( a ) in selecting the applicants who were to be rejected . |
| 30 | Yet the undecorated vessels were given a variety of titles , despite the majority having also come from cemeteries ; biconical and globular vessels were labelled ‘ urns ’ , squat vessels as ‘ plain bowls ’ , and a variety of shapes that could not be fitted easily into the typological scheme were labelled domestic wares , ‘ crude accessories ’ , ‘ wide-mouthed cook-pots ’ and ‘ cook-pots with lugs ’ ( ibid. , pp. 26–9 , pp. 148–70 ) . |