Example sentences of "having [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , no hints of James having broken a contractual obligation found its way into the Declaration of Rights , which simply concluded that James had " abdicated the Government " and that the throne was " thereby vacant " . |
| 2 | Men found her formidable and she advanced into her twenties , long past the usual marrying age , without Nuri having received a suitable offer . |
| 3 | Although in 1977 we were not entirely destitute , having received a major donation , we were able to open the Centre only thanks to loans from the Guggenheim and the MOMA in New York and the Ludwig Forum in Aachen . |
| 4 | ( 9 ) When this party has selected the prospective parliamentary candidate , section ( 3 ) of this clause shall be applicable only when section ( 8 ) applies or , having received a written request from the General Committee of this party for permission to reconsider the selection of the prospective parliamentary candidate , the National Executive Committee has decided that in its opinion there are changed circumstances relating to the prospective parliamentary candidate since his or her selection , and has given authority to this party to convene a special meeting of the General Committee in accordance with regulations sanctioned by the National Executive Committee to consider a resolution that the prospective candidate selected previously shall not be the candidate at the next general election . |
| 5 | It is implausible that , having received a fat return yesterday , investors will meekly shovel tomorrow 's cash into an unpromising project . |
| 6 | In early 1981 , Reagan and his aides spoke confidently of his having received an impressive mandate at the recent elections , and many in Congress and the media seemed to find the argument convincing . |
| 7 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 8 | Having received an honorary degree from St Andrews University , and through his friendship with Principal Robertson of Edinburgh University , had managed the business of a Divinity Degree for his friend Sam Cooper . |
| 9 | At the time of the questionnaire survey , 60 per cent of 1984 " finishing " research students were in full-time employment , one was in part-time employment , and a further 9 per cent were waiting to start work , having received an acceptable job offer . |
| 10 | When that argument had failed , she had tried taunting herself with infatuation — with having developed a schoolgirl-like crush that would n't outlast separation . |
| 11 | He arrived a week later , having developed a profound respect for the eloquent Joseph and his kinsmen . |
| 12 | Having travelled a reasonable distance into wind ( you did wait three years for a day with a light breeze did n't you ? ) , apply some sideways cyclic to bank the model and start a turn . |
| 13 | Nijazi Beqa and his co-defendants were accused of having joined an illegal organization , of having distributed ‘ hostile propaganda materials ’ and of organizing petitions of a ‘ hostile ’ nature to officials in and outside Yugoslavia . |
| 14 | I expect her to shout at me , having heard an alternative story from Teddy . |
| 15 | The continuing fighting between the two groups was seen as having wrecked a five-point plan to end the violence , agreed at a meeting between Buthelezi and Mandela on March 30 [ see p. 38087 ] . |
| 16 | The rear seat occupant , a large man weighing 202 lb , came to rest in the cabin right doorway , having sustained a severe blow to the chin . |
| 17 | Having given a sketchy account of his early career , he notes that he became kazasker in 863/1458–9 and was then removed from that post in 871/1466–7 . |
| 18 | Having given a brief overview of the social incidence , or the pattern of recorded crime , we will turn now to some of the problems involved in the use of criminal statistics . |
| 19 | In October Barnard was accused in court of having assassinated a prominent ANC activist , David Webster , in May 1989 [ see pp. 36647 ; 37033 ] . |
| 20 | HAVING completed a one-year foundation course at York College of Art in 1989 , Fraser Brocklehurst went on to Manchester Polytechnic to take a further two-year degree course in painting and print making . |
| 21 | Nature was never especially kind to Leith in regard to the formation of the harbour , having placed a large stretch of sand across the mouth of the stream and with no sheltered bay or inlet , the approaches were often hazardous . |
| 22 | As usual , they are lost and confused , having floated a long way from home . |
| 23 | Possibly one reason for the author 's attitude was his ignorance of the geography of the country ; a striking instance of this is his statement that in 1461 the earl of March , whom he had rightly described as being in Wales , arrived in England having enjoyed a prosperous voyage and favoured by the west wind ( 14 , p.532 ) . |
| 24 | Having enjoyed a remarkable degree of freedom for several years it was now hard to relinquish areas of control . |
| 25 | Having pursued a pseudo-Hegelian sequence with an emphasis on the ever increasing abstraction , which leads to an ever more radical separation of subject and object , we are faced with the question of the nature of subject-object relations in this new era . |
| 26 | Despite having come a close second to every junior side in the county at least once over the years , as the senior side in the tournament it is hardly surprising that Athletico should have done remarkably well . |
| 27 | The deceased was brought in by Anubis and , turning to each of the gods in turn , he or she denied having committed a particular sin . |
| 28 | Retentionists could not accept that a rapist who breaks into a house , violates his victim , and then kills in order to prevent her giving evidence against him , should be treated as having committed a lesser offence than a burglar who kills in the course of theft . |
| 29 | It does not follow that because a police officer reasonably suspects a person of having committed an arrestable offence , that the person should for that reason alone be arrested . |
| 30 | Apparently because of the public nature of policing activities , the House of Lords has held that in a tort action for false imprisonment the question of whether the police acted reasonably in arresting a person suspected of having committed an arrestable offence is to be judged according to public law principles of reasonableness . |