Example sentences of "having [verb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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% . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The P Note , usually rolled and tied with ribbon , is presented and received with two hands , bows are repeated , and the creditor 's representative may then leave , having shown suitable gratitude for the debtor 's benevolence throughout the performance . |
| 7 | The sculptor Joseph Nollekens [ q.v. ] was reputed to have been removed from Barnard 's will for having shown inadequate admiration for Barnard 's Italian drawings . |
| 8 | This is far better than opening a little airbrake , then some more , and then finally having to use full airbrake for the landing in order to avoid overshooting into the far boundary . |
| 9 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 10 | Having proposed suitable nomenclature for gas chromatography and ion exchange , the commission then developed a unified nomenclature for chromatography . |
| 11 | Having kept tropical marines for a number of years , I was inspired by an article in an old fish keeping magazine , to keep native marines . |
| 12 | Then , using Lemma 3 , we have for general P , Q , R : unc Now because the few elements F of the first set which are not of the form unc are easily proved ( using the laws ) equivalent to ones that are , using the laws , e.g. unc By our assumption that the result holds for finite processes this in turn is equal to unc Since we are in the process of setting up powerful machinery for dealing with finite programs ( for example Theorem 1 ) there are advantages in only having to prove new laws for them . |