Example sentences of "having initially [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having initially believed the story to be " fanciful " , Sick said that his mind had been changed as a result of " the weight of testimony " provided by the hundreds of interviews which he had conducted whilst researching the affair . |
| 2 | At the end of August , we suffered a major setback when the members of the Royal College of Nursing voted to reject our 7.5 per cent offer , despite their negotiators having initially accepted it . |
| 3 | But Time , having initially gone for the throat , was now setting out to complete the job . |
| 4 | Having initially announced that it would continue with commercial whaling in defiance of an international moratorium , the North Norwegian Minke Whalers Association has called off its hunt . |
| 5 | The government , having initially rejected a mediator 's proposal of a 5.4 per cent rise , agreed on May 4 to return to the negotiating table on May 6 . |
| 6 | Having initially defined the area of interest , the developer can , with the aid of Ordnance Survey maps and on-the-spot investigations , identify sites with development possibilities . |
| 7 | confessed to having initially found ‘ prima facie perverse and incomprehensible ’ — was that a police officer is not acting in the execution of his duty if he is doing something that he is not compelled by law to do . |
| 8 | Having initially taken the position ‘ that all inhabitants that have not lost their birthright should have an equal voice in elections ’ , he then spoke about the origins of government and in favour of property as the basis of representation , while denying strongly that the franchise should be restricted to forty-shilling freeholders , calling for its extension to leaseholders . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Moroccan government finally permitted the OMDH to hold its first congress on Dec. 10 , 1988 , having initially banned the organization in May 1988 ( ibid. ) and having prohibited attempts to hold its congress on three subsequent occasions . |
| 11 | However , Lilov was re-elected chairman ( having initially requested not to be nominated ) with 66 per cent of the votes , defeating two other candidates , and only one leading figure from the radical wing secured election to the 150-member Supreme Council . |