Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] having [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be honest , the evidence for druids having ever performed such grisly ceremonies is very dubious and the whole thing is probably nothing other than a piece of Romano-Christian propaganda aimed at destroying the pagan religion of the Celts . |
| 2 | Debate in the Supreme Soviet began on Sept. 17 , with a view to taking a final vote on Sept. 21 , but in the event the vote had to be abandoned for lack of a quorum , a number of deputies having apparently boycotted the session deliberately in order to force a postponement . |
| 3 | This book grew out of an exploration of the roofed classical sites of classical antiquity from the point of view of an engineer the wooden roofing of course having long since disintegrated . |
| 4 | The majority of the ‘ halls ’ can be divided into two on the basis of their floor area , one group of settlements having mostly large buildings , the other smaller , which may reflect the status of the settlements ( Figure 2.7 ) ( James , Marshall and Millett 1984 ) . |
| 5 | Texts used to talk of organisations having just one goal , frequently profit maximisation . |
| 6 | Yet second-person pronouns are not generally accepted in academic writing , a characteristic of the idiom linked to the idea of criticism having less a given , particular reader than of an unspecified general readership . |
| 7 | The thought of Beth having both the man she loved and an easy life was too disturbing . |
| 8 | In other words , the chances of Venus having even this negligible effect on the Earth are only about 1 in 115 per transit of our planet 's orbit . |
| 9 | He is Chairman of Inchcape having previously been Chairman and Chief Executive of Vickers . |
| 10 | In spite of Fraser having only just got back , he was invited to accompany them , and just as naturally agreed . |
| 11 | The proportion of women having just two children , for example , rose from 28% for the 1920s generation to 43% for those born in 1945 . |
| 12 | But she worried about Jarvis having practically nothing to live on , as she saw it , though he never worried . |
| 13 | Mary-Claude was in Lebanon with Sarah having too good a time with her family for him to wish to cut it short . |
| 14 | With IMG having just signed up the Wallabies , JIM TUCKER listens to Nick Farr-Jones ' advocacy of greater rewards for the players . |
| 15 | Small towns dominated the early modern landscape with England having as many as 600 small towns in the 18th century , playing a vital part in the economic and social life a major proportion of the population . |
| 16 | locating which nights northern tracks operate and with Dungannon having already made great efforts to obtain Fridays — to move away from Saturday competition with Dunmore — the Oaks Park management are unlikely to take kindly to the idea of Friday racing at Ballyskeagh . |
| 17 | With goods having only one normal use the mere fact of the purchase will , by implication , make it known that this is what the buyer wants them for , e. g. a hot-water bottle , as in Priest v. |
| 18 | Once again , the Saturday 's play was washed out , but on Monday morning five wickets were down for 100 and , with Lloyd having badly pulled a hamstring while fielding , the follow-on definitely loomed . |
| 19 | For this reason they can not cope with climates having greatly extended winters . |
| 20 | One possible outcome of the discussions is that manufacturing will be retained at Ayr , which employs 1,000 people , with Galway having only a research and development function . |
| 21 | When women treated by cholecystectomy were compared with women having newly discovered , asymptomatic gall stones , they more often described defecation as urgent but had no other detectable differences . |
| 22 | The 2nd half was much of the same with Leeds having even more of the play but creating even less chances ( or so it seemed ) . |
| 23 | I mean Hambleton for example having just produced their draft local plan , but other districts are not quite in that position . |
| 24 | One of the earliest claims to have demonstrated a dissociation of latent inhibition and habituation was made by Weiss , Friedman , and McGregor ( 1974 ) , who studied the phenomena in rats having surgically produced lesions of the septal area of the limbic system . |
| 25 | It 's quite strange because when you think of teenage mothers you think of Michelle in Eastenders having all those problems and the father running off and everything . |
| 26 | The worst stories were those from the people living in bungalows having nowhere to move to . |
| 27 | where the Carniki Trust is in Dunfermline having just managed to get there on the petrol in the tank erm |
| 28 | The same may be said of a number of other rural districts designated under Section 19 of the Housing Act 1980 , ostensibly protected but in reality having quite large proportions of their stocks vulnerable . |
| 29 | ‘ Small numbers of units which cut across traditional subject boundaries could be designed — one such unit on transport having already been produced . |
| 30 | The latter had just changed his name to Freygood and was preparing to move to Montreal having recently married a young Jewish girl called Ruby . |