Example sentences of "having [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having propped up the Ottoman empire for the latter part of the nineteenth century , Britain and France now set about dismantling it . |
| 2 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 3 | In the case of each plaintiff , the application form for a further advance requires the borrower to state whether he wishes a basic valuation , a house buyers ' report or a structural survey ; the brochure having pointed out the limited scope of the first two . |
| 4 | Guppy allegedly boasted of having carried out the perfect crime , the court heard . |
| 5 | If you feel drained ( despite having carried out the previous visualisations ) , take a shower , if possible , or a bath containing essence of juniper . |
| 6 | In Bassetlaw the care manager for mental health is on maternity leave and the existing social work team is having to try out the new procedures . |
| 7 | Below the sober exterior , though , one suspects that there 's a bit of an animal lurking — and switching in the graphic equaliser and voice filter ( after having connected up the sub-woofer extension cabinet ) opens the cage door fairly wide . |
| 8 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 9 | Having felt carefully the whole length of the injured leg , Sophie looked up . |
| 10 | Having mapped out the general social and drug career characteristics of users interviewed in the four snowball samples , the following section will discuss why these users had not come into contact with the various voluntary and statutory bodies expected to deal with the ‘ heroin problem ’ . |
| 11 | He pointed out that the American Physical Society had invited him to give the talk , that he had completed a three — year research programme , having done all the necessary cross checks and controls , and had definitive results to present . |
| 12 | I went to drama school having done all the correct things that drama students are supposed to ignore — like going to public school ( Wellington ) and dressing in conventional clothes . |
| 13 | HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday . |
| 14 | It is perfectly possible to go through a University career , satisfy the examiners , graduate in the splendour of the Great Hall , and leave as a Bristol graduate without ever once having thought how the whole thing has been organised . |
| 15 | Mahogany was once prolific in the tropical forests , and having logged out the Caribbean and West Africa , merchants are now moving back to Brazil . |
| 16 | Neanderthals possessed bigger brains than we do ; the Cro-Magnons , generally regarded as having wiped out the Neanderthal precursors , were similarly large-brained . |
| 17 | Middlesbrough-born Glendenen went on to score the first century , having become only the second Durham player to make a double-century when he hit 200 not out against Victoria last September in a three-day match unluckily denied first-class status . |
| 18 | ‘ And now , ’ he said , having mopped up the last crumb , ‘ now , what is it I can do for you ? |
| 19 | But having weighed up the two options , at the end of the article , he concluded : ' … in every language it turns out that almost all the results lie within a relatively short stretch which we may call the sentence … |
| 20 | Having recovered only the partial use of one hand , he set to work and wrote Beneath the Visiting Moon . |
| 21 | United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too … |
| 22 | Having set up the functioning New Business teams and created the essential facilities for servicing in the first few months , much further development was still needed to create procedures to service business once on the books . |
| 23 | Having set forth the accepted Turkish tradition concerning the early Muftilik and having reviewed in some detail the lives of the first three Muftis , one may now pass on to a consideration in more general terms of the validity of the tradition and of such important problems as the reasons for the creation of the institution and the nature of the early Muftilik , problems which are either not dealt with at all by Turkish writers or are dealt with only in the vaguest terms . |
| 24 | Lord Roskill , in the course of a speech concurred in by Lords Fraser of Tullybelton , Edmund-Davies , Brandon of Oakbrook and Brightman , referred , at p. 331 , to Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 with apparent approval as having set out the four elements involved in the offence of theft and as having rejected the argument that there could not be theft within section 1(1) if the owner of the property had consented to the defendant 's acts . |
| 25 | Sadly , however , the return tip was marred by the death of two members of the Rhodesian patrol , killed in an attack by two Blenheims , in spite of their having spread out the correct air recognition signals . |
| 26 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |
| 27 | Having worked out the general layout , the main outlines of the plants and substrates and so on were drawn in with the washes of the appropriate colours . |
| 28 | Having worked out the desirable size of interest categories , the McClellan system then evolves a way of monitoring the stock within them . |
| 29 | The Steward 's party , having cleared out the domestic quarters , arrived at that side of the keep , driving before them a crowd of servitors and general retainers , women amongst them , many only partially clad . |
| 30 | Chairman having read again the relevant paragraphs P P G twelve to which er the senior inspector referred , I I think it 's entirely consistent with that that the county should seek to erm include a policy now in the plan which in effect seeks to clarify the basic intentions of the structure plan in in regard to the attitude to development in in open countryside . |