Example sentences of "having [adv] been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward recalls this attitude clearly among the Swindon-Welsh cronies of his paternal grandmother : ‘ They used to remark how well my father was doing , my grandfather who had long been dead having only been a fitter ’ . |
| 2 | The present name of Colonna del Verziere is new , the column having once been the column of the cross ' — after the statue of Christ holding an iron cross was added in the seventeenth-century — or ‘ of San Matroniano ’ . |
| 3 | Both sides said that Bush was too busy with the Gulf War , but US unease about events in the Baltic was widely assessed as having also been a factor . |
| 4 | ( The Paviours Arms in Page Street , Westminster is a good example , having originally been a showpiece of restrained and elegant design . ) |
| 5 | Like Paul of Tarsus , Augustine of Hippo was a convert to Christianity , having previously been a Manichee and then a Neoplatonist like Plotinus . |
| 6 | She joins the company at Olympia Exhibition Centre , having previously been a manager with Roux Restaurants Ltd . |