Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intercommunal talks had reopened on Feb. 26 after having been broken off in July 1989 following an incident on the " green line " between the Greek and Turkish sectors of the island , when more than 100 Greek Cypriots were arrested by Turkish Cypriot police [ see p. 36822 ] . |
| 2 | The men , all of whom had been captured after having been shot down over enemy territory , gave their names , sent greetings to their families and made statements critical of the war . |
| 3 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 4 | Such specimens represent the diversity that exists both between and within species from all regions of the earth , from the deep sea to the tropical rain forest ; and , by virtue of having been collected over hundreds of years , they provide a record of past patterns of biodiversity that can be used to interpret environmental change . |
| 5 | Certain sections , when they fall into deep shadow , give the effect of having been gouged out in order to show the interior as well as the exterior structure of the head . |
| 6 | Personal idiosyncracies are not relevant here : what really matter are those sentiments and axiomatic patterns of thought and action which come , as we would say ‘ naturally ’ , as a result of having been brought up or ‘ socialized ’ in a particular society and culture . |
| 7 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |
| 8 | True , Gilels does half-smudge the odd chord but , then , his recording gives the impression of having been put down in a handful of massive musically organic takes , where the new Philips occasionally betrays signs of cutting-room technology . |
| 9 | It is a gut reaction to the sense of having been taken over by affluent and alien strangers . |
| 10 | It had surrounded her at her progressive private school , it surrounded her still at her fashionable newish university , but she herself lacked economic grasp and was uncomfortably aware of having lost , of late , a few arguments with outsiders , of having been thrown back on arguments about personalities . |
| 11 | He carries the burden of having been sworn in just before the US operations began , and he remains in hiding under the protection of the United States . |
| 12 | Compare it with a late kouros ( fig. 72 ) , a larger work set on a grave in central Attica , of one Aristodikos , and beautifully preserved through having been taken down and buried when it can not have been standing very long , perhaps to avoid desecration by the Persian invader . |
| 13 | She went over to the pool and found the book on a table , damp from having been left out all night among towels and goggles , sunglasses , an old Daily Telegraph and the girls ' bikini bottoms . |
| 14 | Colin resents the notion that he does n't carry a big punch and this could be a chance for him to try to prove otherwise as Palacio admits to having been knocked out four times in his 58-fight career . |
| 15 | A group of English players are reported to be bitter at having been left out of the squad for next week 's world team championships , and inevitably , the name of the game for the next couple of days in the Open , which starts today , will be to try to make monkeys of those who omitted them . |