Example sentences of "having [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan Campbell concluded : ‘ Having received good business since our start-up , it was rewarding to feel that we contributed , in some way , to provide a life-line to a country in need of urgent help . ’ |
| 2 | Having received official blessing from the Donoughmore Committee , tribunals mushroomed , particularly in connection with the social security legislation introduced after the Second World War ( Wraith and Hutchesson , 1973 ) . |
| 3 | Having received identical treatment from rows of Benedict 's men on duty , I could not conceive why Old Red should be the object of so much wrath from my fellow nurses . |
| 4 | It will also be a positive career move — care managers will be mobile , with all the advantages of having developed key skills in purchasing and providing . |
| 5 | A few molluscs , like the slugs and octopuses , have secondarily lost their shells , having developed other means of protection . |
| 6 | ‘ I must admit at that time I had little sympathy for the victims , having heard gruesome evidence at court , but my feelings have now changed . |
| 7 | Having heard differing views during a visit to the region on Friday , Lang said difficult decisions would need to be made . |
| 8 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 9 | As I finished my meal an entire flotilla of portly Bavarians waddled out , having consumed vast quantities of beer with their enormous meal . |
| 10 | Having posted shining results for years , Compaq recently warned that its second-quarter sales will be 15% down on 1990 's figure , and that profits will tumble by close to 80% . |
| 11 | And now " The Meeting having given due consideration to the want of a regular and resident Surgeon in the Island , and conceive that such a person is much wanted , and they know that in general the practice and payments to a medical person is inadequate to support him in decency , and although a liberal subscription was opened and entered into by individuals still the supply would be scanty and unequal to the support of an educated person and a gentleman . |
| 12 | 1821 " This Meeting having given due consideration to various kinds of theft committed in the Island — Resolve to stent themselves in a sum ( £20 ) … for the purpose of detecting and prosecuting such persons as may be found guilty of theft . " |
| 13 | Having given considerable thought to teaching movement to children and being very aware of fast changing social needs , Lucy Jackson developed MOTHER AND TODDLER classes in Hammersmith during the 1980s . |
| 14 | In a major study of sexual offences conducted by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology between 1950 and 1954 in which 3000 cases involving sexual offences were investigated , it was found that the proportion of offenders recorded by the police as having committed carnal knowledge of girls aged 13 to 16 who were not brought before the courts was much higher ( 46 per cent. ) than for men charged with other heterosexual offences ( 12 per cent . ) . |
| 15 | The Romans were known to have accused everybody they did n't like of having committed human sacrifice in the same way that nations have always labelled their enemies " Frogs " , or " Nignogs " , or " Argies " . |
| 16 | They face the prospect of having to accept unskilled jobs at lower wages or of retraining , in either event , they may have to move to another part of the country . |
| 17 | More than 1,600 names — the people whose personal wealth is pledged to meeting insurance claims — lost money when they found themselves having to meet huge bills for asbestosis and pollution claims after Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the risks from other Lloyd 's syndicates in 1982 . |
| 18 | Having cancelled Blue Streak in 1960 , Britain proposed that the technology be incorporated into a co-operative European effort . |
| 19 | However , these ran into difficulty when , on Dec. 1 , US President Bush ruled out the possibility of an American apology for having dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 , an action which he defended as having " spared millions of American lives " . |
| 20 | Having considered possible explanations for some of the major inter-country differences between the levels of union organisation at a particular point in time it is also useful to examine the related question of the factors which help to explain the year-to-year growth and fluctuations in union membership over the course of time . |
| 21 | Within a month or so the French , having won important skirmishes at Jargeau and Patay , could turn towards achieving the next logical step of their success story , the coronation of the dauphin as king of France . |
| 22 | The auditory memory is having to find logical patterns of symbols to fit the sounds heard . |
| 23 | The rules will also allow groups of offices within firms to become authorised to provide training as single entities , instead of having to obtain separate authorisation for each location . |
| 24 | While Oakeshott can be viewed as having embraced certain tenets of a liberal philosophy he is highly critical of the rationalistic and atomistic nature of liberal thought . |
| 25 | The respondent was tried for an offence contrary to s 2(1) of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 , having secured unauthorised access to a computer in contravention of s 1(1) of the 1990 Act with intent to commit a further offence of false accounting . |
| 26 | As for chairmen , they do not like having to print millions of copies of their annual reports or having to answer tedious questions at their AGMs from Disgusted of Worthing . |
| 27 | There is no question of having to serve flat beer in Scotland . |
| 28 | Mr Alastair Brett , for the journalist and Times Newspapers Limited , said : ‘ The defendants , having made extensive inquiries into the allegation , are quite satisfied that Mr Bouvier was not the father of the plaintiff 's twins and very much regret that the allegation was ever published . |
| 29 | These included Tom Mboya and Oginga Odinga , both Luo , albeit from different parts of Luo-land , both having made major contributions to the independence movement ( Odinga amongst the Luo and Mboya within and outside the trade union movement ) , and in 1961 both were founder members of KANU . |
| 30 | In-depth studies will be conducted with authorities who are recognised as having made considerable progress in this field and a postal survey of all British local authorities will be undertaken to assess the extent to which performance measures and review procedures are utilised . |