Example sentences of "[prep] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness . |
| 2 | Trace Computers Plc blames the fall in turnover for the six months to November 30 ( figures , see page five ) , on a planned reduction in the scale of its computer supplies business , where turnover fell by nearly £1m ; the company managed to shave £122,000 from its administrative and operating costs ; the original businesses of insurance broking systems , property management systems and bespoke software development have continued to prosper , the company says , and the Proteus distribution systems business , consolidated on its return to profits last year ; Trace Financial also made a small profit and there was interest in the BlueChip stockbroking product ; the group is still investing about £2m a year in research and development — with some contribution from its customers ; the Pink networking technology company had a disappointing half year , turning in a small loss after having made a profit last year . |
| 3 | Early in October , after having blocked a UN attempt to halt the fighting , Iraq called for a cease-fire . |
| 4 | Graduates of the honours course will also be ideally placed , after having obtained a postgraduate certificate in education , to enter teaching . |
| 5 | The Central Bank lifted restrictions on currency withdrawals on Aug. 3 after having imposed a limit in February of KD4,000 ( US$13,500 ) on all withdrawals and foreign currency transfers . |
| 6 | ‘ Normally I 'd say no , especially after having had a gun pointed at them . |
| 7 | My Lord , erm those are , those are my submissions my Lord , I was going to say something about my learned friends somewhat unusual request to your Lordship to make disparaging comments in judgment about the defendants case , my learned friend wishes to make disparaging comments we save a proper place for those in his submissions when he comes to apply to strike out , or say anything about that , erm , my Lord erm perhaps erm as a , as a final point , erm Mr Bernard after having reviewed a piano recital once wrote , the only thing he enjoyed more than this directive performance was having his teeth pulled , I think your Lordship has not found that the last five and a half days are equally an under defended experience in relation to , to this mornings sir activity |
| 8 | is well despite having had a forceps delivery & ‘ piles ’ ! ! |
| 9 | As Engels puts it , despite having had a product for nearly two years , Cognos is still at the ‘ toe in the water ’ stage with the AS/400 market . |
| 10 | With a price tag of £415,000 , some of those who signed up for the XJ 220 are backing out , despite having paid a deposit of £50,000 . |
| 11 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 12 | I have no record of having received a reply and since everything is beginning to move again with the local authorities applying to the Secretary of State for him to lay Orders under the Transport and Public Works Act to enable them to proceed with public consultation on their scheme , the matter is becoming critical once again . |
| 13 | He has the advantage of having devised a series of self-contained but effectively linked novels , full of properly casual back-references , in which he can show his hero changing with circumstances from the exuberance of a young lieutenant , to whom personal courage , seamanlike skills and informed opportunism have brought reputation and wealth , to a middle-aged man still exuberant but oppressed with financial cares and by the continual malice of personal enemies . |
| 14 | Then he turns and walks away , leaving her standing the clearing , with a feeling of having lost a struggle . |
| 15 | This of course is something I was aware of having witnessed a news conference with Miss Graf in mid-week , in which she very politely criticised her absent rivals saying that none of the top ranked players needed the vast amounts of money to be gained by playing in lucrative exhibition events . |
| 16 | The relief of having made a decision did not last . |
| 17 | The Nobel committee was spared the embarrassment of having made a mistake by the discovery in 1983 at CERN ( European Centre for Nuclear Research ) of the three massive partners of the photon , with the correct predicted masses and other properties . |
| 18 | ‘ They did not … see themselves as black or show any real sign of having developed a sense of racial identity ’ ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 139 ) . |
| 19 | Only three are suspected of having conducted a test . |
| 20 | Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes . |
| 21 | This is particularly frustrating , since much crucial planning is determined by the outcome of having obtained a sound forecast of the likely weather conditions for the day(s) ahead . |
| 22 | This motion is the disgraceful practice by certain insurance companies , of having settled a claim for personal injury , get a person to sign a disclaimer . |
| 23 | But , head to head with the world 's No 1 , the strapping Scot had had a four-under- par 66 to his conqueror 's 68 and the satisfaction of having unfurled a draw just when he needed it most . |
| 24 | And then there was the greatest ace of them all , Otto Kretschmer , whose record of having sunk a quarter of a million tons of Allied shipping was never beaten , Kretschmer who had perfected the night tactics , taught him by Dönitz , of letting a convoy pass over him , surfacing between the lines , loosing off torpedoes at ships either side of him , then diving again to get clear . |
| 25 | The events of the week-end seemed to recede , to become locked away , as if I had dreamt them ; and yet as I walked there came the strangest feeling , compounded of the early hour , the absolute solitude , and what had happened , of having entered a myth ; a knowledge of what it was like physically , moment by moment , to have been young and ancient , a Ulysses on his way to meet Circe , a Theseus on his journey to Crete , an Oedipus still searching for his destiny . |
| 26 | So many guitar students are put off by the handicap of having bought a guitar which does n't do the business and so , from the point of view of playability alone , the Rockwood is a welcome addition to the marketplace . |
| 27 | Theodore was a cheerful , plump man in his late forties , with a pale face and thick pebble glasses , those last a very probable consequence of having spent a lifetime poring over abstruse codes . |
| 28 | Only of having leapt a lifetime in one night . ’ |
| 29 | All were , of course , party men , but they were not politicians in the British sense of having won a reputation as fighters in the party battle . |
| 30 | Before acquisition they became aware that far from being the prosperous enterprise the business had appeared to be , it was in fact insolvent by reason of having incurred a number of bad debts . |