Example sentences of "[prep] having [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After having carefully removed the browned edge of the fillet he sliced the meat quickly and evenly . |
| 2 | After having carefully measured my horse 's girth and length from point of withers to top of tail , I discovered with some astonishment that my horse weighed 954 million pounds . |
| 3 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 4 | The Times noted ‘ fruit trees which had begun to blossom after having long ceased ’ . |
| 5 | Like visiting the Sistine Chapel after having only read the Thames & Hudson Michelangelo in braille . |
| 6 | Tutwiler 's statement came amidst reports of growing bitterness among Kurdish leaders who claimed that the US administration had failed to support them after having initially encouraged their movement . |
| 7 | Its major aim , as will appear , is to demonstrate that the crucial medical-legal decision is not switching off a ventilator , but rather , switching it on , either initially or after having once turned it off . |
| 8 | He could n't admit it to Pam , but he was more than a little disturbed by the fact that the Triad enforcer had escaped Springfield 's dragnet , after having almost killed Grant . |
| 9 | Nigel Mansell showed today that he 's still out to win despite having already wrapped up the World Championship . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , despite having thus declared its relative impotence , more than three-quarters of the teachers who had seen the booklet said that they were in favour of self-evaluation schemes of this kind . |
| 11 | For four centuries after the Renaissance , Europe — and only Europe — developed modern science , despite having once lagged behind the Arabs and the Chinese . |
| 12 | 5.1 Despite having now examined three distinct structures which are all realized through an adjective immediately following a noun phrase , we have not yet exhausted the possibilities lying behind this simple sequence of English surface syntax . |
| 13 | He concentrated upon the doctor 's neat , white shirt , his thin , anxious neck and his general air of having just surfaced from some particularly nasty branch of the Inland Revenue . |
| 14 | yes , the schools group , yes , I mean , that , that could operate more , in fact we could have , instead of having just talking about the , about the India one , er instead of having one person at it , it could be a group of , of three perhaps , er . |
| 15 | One consequence of having well focused missions , goals , strategies and main functions , it is suggested , is that there is usually a core technology to the organization which is well understood . |
| 16 | The critical success factor for matching opportunities and core competences is one of having widely shared information within the firm . |
| 17 | Yet he boasts of having already arranged more than 70 kidney transplants , and maintaining a list of 50 donors awaiting their turn . |
| 18 | A few years later , however , the distant future showed every indication of having already arrived when these nagging anxieties grabbed the headlines around the large numbers of recruits who had been found unfit for service in the Boer War , and in spite of the half-hearted reassurances of the Physical Deterioration Committee of 1904 fears of racial deterioration were rampant . |
| 19 | In Ireland , he holds the remarkable record of having thrice visited the country for three weeks and never having experienced rain there . |
| 20 | To quote Lodge again , ‘ instead of having desperately to defend the possibility of a fixed or stable meaning in isolated utterances , we can cheerfully accept that meaning exists in the process of intersubjective communication , since no utterance ever is truly isolated . ’ |
| 21 | The federal government on Jan. 8 accused Serbia of having critically undermined the federal monetary system and of jeopardizing economic reforms because the illegal issue would trigger inflation and threaten the dinar 's stability . |
| 22 | The declaration accused Georgia of having illegally annexed Abkhazia . |
| 23 | The squeeze was on from the start , Mark Bowen clearing off the line in the fourth minute and again in the 84th from Terry Hurlock 's drive as Norwich maintained a startling statistic of having yet to concede an away goal . |
| 24 | Despite the initial problems of having nowhere to play and no real contact with the industry , outside of listening to John Peel , the space and time to manoeuvre and mature outside of the media 's glare has given Therapy ? a concrete foundation to work from . |
| 25 | However , in spite of having continually plundered Arabia through the centuries and taken thousands of its best horses , by the beginning of this century few of their descendants remained and those that did were in a very sorry state of deterioration . |
| 26 | In his memorandum Aziz accused Kuwait of having deliberately pursued policies aimed at weakening Iraq during the latter 's eight-year war with Iran . |
| 27 | These included everything from wind turbines to exploiting the heat from rocks deep under the earth 's surface , The phrase ‘ renewable ’ referred to the fact that instead of having constantly to supply new fuel from the earth , as with coal or nuclear materials , the energy source , such as wind or water , is constantly renewed . |
| 28 | Opposition leaders accused the authorities of having unilaterally ceased consultations with them on the bill , and were also seeking an undertaking that the elections would go ahead as scheduled . |
| 29 | People who are ‘ at risk ’ of having mentally handicapped children can be advised of this , and it is safe to assume that some may be deterred from proceeding to have a child . |
| 30 | We hear that during September , Pest Control Westminster found itself in an embarrassing situation of having under spent on its petty cash budget by 10% . |