Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was fiercely proud of Scotland , having been indoctrinated by glowing tales from my Mother , and felt that the land was mine by birthright . |
| 2 | Can the Minister assure the House that , if a general election goes against his wishes and people cross their ballot papers having been influenced by Labour propaganda , he will accept that result ? |
| 3 | He explained that the young puffin had been found wandering in the village with a damaged wing , probably having been mauled by one of the many cats in the neighbourhood ( most of whom , incidentally , have six toes on each foot ) and he said that he would look after Eyvør for some weeks until it was well enough to be released . |
| 4 | Above all , this kind of political romanticism fosters the view that future arrangements can be attained when conflict and dispute will no longer take place , having been replaced by eternal harmony . |
| 5 | ‘ The action is an action for money had and received ; and it is brought upon this ground ; namely , that the money was paid to the defendant without any consideration ; the duty , for which , and in respect of which he received it , not having been imposed by lawful or sufficient authority to warrant the same . |
| 6 | ‘ The action is an action for money had and received ; and it is brought upon this ground ; namely , that the money was paid to the defendant without any consideration ; the duty , for which , and in respect of which he received it , not having been imposed by lawful or sufficient authority to warrant the same . |
| 7 | And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another . |
| 8 | The European Convention on Human Rights has not been made part of our law by statute , so it does not in itself create rights enforceable in our courts ; but having been ratified by this country it is binding on us as a matter of international law . |
| 9 | When his devotions are over , after the Mass , having been blessed by holy relics , he then dedicates the rest of the morning to the work of government of his empire . |
| 10 | In all , 61 respondents were eventually contacted and interviewed , 28 were Detoxification Unit patients and 39 were Drugs Council clients , six individuals having been selected by both samples . |
| 11 | Goodwill had been encouraged by reciprocal representation on validation visits , but there was still strong opposition when Kerr accepted an invitation to meet the NCDAD at its premises at Park Crescent — having been warned by some polytechnic directors that he was going into the lion 's den and would be devoured . |
| 12 | Ira Dilworth , Lawren Harris and I journeyed together to Victoria for the funeral and none of us were pall-bearers , such details having been arranged by local friends and neighbours . |
| 13 | She regarded herself as having been battered by uncontrollable forces , washed up in hostile , foreign waters against jagged rocks . |
| 14 | To prove contrary evidence it was necessary to have either positive proof that the document was returned to the sender or , if sent by recorded delivery , that there was no acknowledgement of receipt , or if there was evidence of the document having been received by some person , there was proof that the person was not the intended recipient and that he had not brought the document to the notice of the person required to be served . |
| 15 | Erm , but , having been supported by each chief officer and general manager , you will see in paragraph eleven of the report , the various actions that have been taken over the last twelve months or so , and I would like to pick out particular the fact , that chief officers are now , operating or required to have effective arrangements for achieving equal opportunity in employment in their department or unit . |
| 16 | The good news is , therefore , that despite having been beaten by better sides , improvements are certainly to be expected . |
| 17 | Precisely what is meant by ‘ any substantial finding of contributory negligence ’ is open to some dispute at present , the view having been expressed by one judge that any contributory negligence greater than a minimal amount , must be substantial and hence prevent any interim payment . |
| 18 | We can now turn right to the other end of the book , where there should be another paste-down and free endpaper , though in earlier books the latter will often be missing , having been appropriated by some seventeenth or eighteenth century housewife as a shopping list or for copying a cooking recipe . |
| 19 | By the early 80's 80 per cent of children were in comprehensive schools — the system not having been adopted by all education authorities . |
| 20 | This orientation can be characterised by certain basic attitudes , chief among which are ( 1 ) a continued and strict adherence to the tenets of Judaic law ; ( 2 ) a recognition of Jesus as Messiah in the original Judaic sense of the word ; ( 3 ) a repudiation of the Virgin Birth and an insistence on Jesus having been born by natural processes , without any divine intervention ; and ( 4 ) a militant hostility towards Paul and the edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 21 | These DCs will be marked as having been created by ABLE . |
| 22 | If a worker-led bid came forward and there were employees within a company who had drive , initiative and new ideas about how it could be run more successfully and provide more services at no cost to the public purse , why should they , in effect , be disqualified without their case ever having been studied by those who are supposed to study the bids ? |
| 23 | Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal . |
| 24 | The draft Union Treaty was debated in the USSR Supreme Soviet and approved on July 12 by 307 to 11 votes with 18 abstentions , after having been approved by eight of the nine republican parliaments but not by that of Ukraine . |
| 25 | Another wonderful view was the truck , showing no signs of having been surrounded by angry aluminium workers attempting to tow it away . |
| 26 | It finally fell two years later as a result of famine , having been surrounded by Frankish earthworks and troops who had remained through the winter months . |
| 27 | Both dogs are familiar with the Byker circuit , having been bred by Brough-based Norman Oliver before moving on . |
| 28 | Havel , who had been elected in December 1989 to serve in an interim capacity [ see p. 37107 ] , was the sole candidate ; a number of other individuals had been disqualified , not having been nominated by parliamentary deputies , while Stefan Kvietik , nominated by the Slovak National Party , had withdrawn . |
| 29 | In which case are Upehull and Upsall related , the ‘ s ’ having been introduced by scribal error or misreading at some stage , or is the later form a name given to a family coming originally from Uppsala in Sweden ? |
| 30 | Cannabis was the most popular secondary drug , having been used by 38 per cent of known opioid users , followed by psychedelics ( 15 per cent ) and stimulants ( 14 per cent ) . |