Example sentences of "[conj] having [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More specifically , in allowing certain individuals the benefits of incorporation the state is viewed as having made a concession or having bestowed a privilege on them . |
| 2 | There 's nothing more frustrating than having to waste a couple of days — or more — of your precious summer break recovering from stomach upsets . |
| 3 | Rather than having made a fortune in tips tonight , she had actually come up ten dollars short . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 6 | There had obviously been a couple of heated arguments , probably to do with the artistic … you know , you get bored with something that you 've done before and you 're working on a new project , and I think he thought that having to wear a suit as opposed to his choice of stage gear can be very nerve-racking . |
| 7 | We have been mesmerised by Dean Acheson saying that having lost an empire , Britain has not yet found a role . |
| 8 | It is significant that having conducted a review of the ‘ state of the art ’ in these areas , and drawn up a list of generalisations about the change process in education , Bolam cautions that generalisations ‘ should be regarded as working hypotheses and pointers for future study since their basis in research is weak ’ . |
| 9 | Mr McCausland said that having made a survey of the non-drinking areas implemented by other councils he was convinced that Belfast was being treated ‘ less sympathetically ’ than elsewhere in the province . |
| 10 | But if I tell her the truth and insist upon it , I shall be disobeying my husband and causing his mother unnecessary worry , she reflected , and was forced to accept that having made a cross for her back , she would have to bear it . |
| 11 | Fanny Burney said to Johnson that Shakespeare ‘ could never have seen a Caliban ’ , and Johnson told her that having seen a man Shakespeare knew how to vary one ; ‘ A man who would draw a monstrous cow , must first know what a cow commonly is ; or how can he tell that to give her an ass 's head or an elephant 's tusk will make her monstrous ? ’ |
| 12 | I was amused by J. Lipton 's letter in the November issue , in which he says that having driven a nail in the wood , if it splits , he knows he should have used a screw . |
| 13 | Life 's basic needs remains fairly constant — but we juggle the formula for fulfilment of these needs , until having reached a frenzy we go ‘ over the top ’ and the formula has to be reassembled . |
| 14 | Having reasserted the need for a national framework and having listed a set of general educational aims , the ministers set out ‘ the approach to the curriculum which they consider should now be followed in the years ahead ’ . |
| 15 | And having made a couple of Winchesters , that 's er the big bottle , which was er eighty ounces . |
| 16 | What is a Member of Parliament to do when , having been lucky enough to be given an Adjournment debate by you , Mr. Speaker , and having given a copy of his entire speech to the Foreign Office at 9.45 in the morning , the Minister — in this case the Minister of State , the hon. and learned Member for Grantham ( Mr. Hogg ) — makes no attempt whatever to answer the deeply serious issues that have been raised ? |
| 17 | Having attended a trial or two in my time , and having kept an eye on the changing standard of juries , police , barristers and judges , I am convinced that if hanging were reintroduced , they would not just occasionally hang the wrong person , but do it pretty well every time . |
| 18 | Tommy Armour is proud of its top-of-the-range ladies ' clubs , the 845s Silver Scot , and having tried a set I can understand why . |
| 19 | And having to add a lot of low ledger line notes . |
| 20 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 21 | And if there were a proposal to establish a funding council , that would best be done in the context of the further education colleges having acquired self-governing status , having found their feet and having had an opportunity to discuss the respective roles of the funding council and of the Secretary of State . |
| 22 | And having found a vantage-point where he had a clear view of the meadows and was himself sheltered , he halted his pony and stood to watch , narrowing his eyes to single out coat-armour , and number the forces in the English party . |
| 23 | A few proponents of the change effort saw themselves as having to provide the executive leadership for the change and having to develop a strategy for doing so . |
| 24 | I felt David 's mother did n't really like me , and having to share a bed with her really drove me nuts . |
| 25 | er I think further notice and having having a look at the figures . |
| 26 | But having rejected a compromise which , for boxing , was about as good as it gets , he ca n't continue claiming innocence if it leads to the heavyweight division again disintegrating into chaos . |
| 27 | I was still at the crease , but having pulled a muscle in my leg I was batting with a runner . |
| 28 | It came from a very smart left-hand catch by Hick , his sixth of the match , a reprimand by gesture to WCM for putting him down as having missed a catch ( Aqib ) in the Lord 's Test which actually fell an inch or two short of Hick 's fingers . |
| 29 | There is no doubt the uniform policemen see their one-time associates in the CID as having crossed a divide , while the detectives know they have joined a closed and somewhat élite family group , whose strengths include the inside support of other members of that society . |
| 30 | In February 1989 , the Lord Chancellor was reported as having sought an explanation of remarks made at a dinner by Sir James Miskin , Recorder of London . |