Example sentences of "having [been] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 2 | Having been engaged in an undeclared war with China since 1937 Japan took advantage of the French defeat in 1940 both to close one of China 's last remaining links with the outside world , the Haiphong — Yunnan railway , and to begin her advance into Southeast Asia . |
| 3 | However , two millworkers ' cottages , that formerly consisted of three storeys , each of a single room , stand close by , having been converted in the late '50s . |
| 4 | Nine people — six monks , two novices and an elderly nun — were found dead in a Buddhist temple in Arizona on Aug. 10 , each having been shot in the back of the head . |
| 5 | Trotsky and the ice-man had been his attempt to solve the problem of why he was still alive despite having been shot in the head . |
| 6 | As many wartime evacuees found to their alarm , rural housing remained at a lower standard than that to be found in most urban areas , with only slow progress having been made in the provision of piped water , sewerage and electricity . |
| 7 | However , the two seats reserved for Unionist MPs were not taken up because of Unionist opposition to the 1985 Agreement ( provision for the existence of the Body , first mooted in 1980 , having been made in the Agreement ) ; Molyneaux dismissed the meeting as a " social occasion " . |
| 8 | MATLOCK TOWN , the HFS Loans League team , are still in the FA Trophy - despite having been defeated in the first round . |
| 9 | In 1959 Dean Martin turned up in a Sinatra film , Some Come Running , having been wandering in the Hollywood wilderness since breaking up with his former screen buddy Jerry Lewis . |
| 10 | The roof together with the sides were bolted into position permanently , after which the sliding doors were fitted , these also having been built in a jig . |
| 11 | The houses next to these almshouses were quite modern for the street — probably having been built in the eighteen-seventies . |
| 12 | Perpetuation of this system would have meant , as we can predict from the above reasoning , that when the nation 's sewers finally collapsed , having been built in the last century , a huge financing requirement would have been forced upon the industry . |
| 13 | He was , perhaps , less than worthy of his literary immortality : in 1800 the vicar of Over Stowey , having been cheated in a deal over some turf , called him ‘ as rascally faced fellow as ever I met with ’ . |
| 14 | These now have good marginal vegetation and their dams produce small waterfalls , the preferred nesting sites for Grey Wagtails which are widely distributed in this limited habitat , some 193 pairs having been recorded in a survey in 1967–69 , mainly in the Lower Greensand and High Weald areas . |
| 15 | The mere fact of having been cast in the role of daughter , daughter-in-law , son or son-in-law does not automatically endow any of us with the ability to play that part to perfection , particularly when it begins to need more than smiles and pleasantries at family gatherings , and demands qualities of patience , perseverance and insight , and the regular visiting of a lonely and possibly disabled old person . |
| 16 | And if two actresses can survive having been cast in the same part and still go on to be friends , they can survive anything . |
| 17 | Alured was ruined by the civil war , his house having been destroyed in the fighting . |
| 18 | The church was deconsecrated in the early nineteenth-century and converted into a warehouse , at which time its art treasures were moved out to the Brera where they still remain , despite the church having been reconsecrated in the twentieth-century . |
| 19 | Another possible bath-house has already been mentioned , having been discovered in the excavation in the High Street in 1961–2 . |
| 20 | For example , in an important case where a murderer claimed an inheritance , having been named in the will of his victim , judges invoked the moral opinion that someone ought not to profit by their crime ( 23 ) . |
| 21 | The English news , inserted at 1315 , was more up to date , having been prepared in the late morning . |
| 22 | He was the eldest son , his two brothers having been killed in the Great War . |
| 23 | On Aug. 17 a gunman killed two off-duty civil guards in the Basque town of Oyarzun , bringing to 622 the total of apparent ETA victims in 1992 , 18 of them having been killed in the period January to March . |
| 24 | Swindon having been beaten in the League Cup recently by Bicester , erm looked as though they were going to make a real match of it today when they scored in the eleventh minute . |
| 25 | However , of the first 100 notified to the Commission ( but such notification is haphazard , and may not therefore be representative ) as having been formed in the first 14 months after the EEIG Regulation came into effect on 1 July 1989 , a rough pattern emerges . |
| 26 | The position of the beads in the grave normally suggests they were worn on a necklace , but a case can be made for some having been worn in the hair . |
| 27 | The principle of regional autonomy having been legitimized in the Republican constitution , the Statute was finally approved by the Cortes in September 1932 . |
| 28 | Despite a good number of studies having been undertaken in the first half of the century it was not until the late 1950s that the particular decrements in performance of sleepy subjects were established . |
| 29 | mention of a tall Human in a metal mask having been seen in the catacombs and passages not long before the adventurers . |
| 30 | " The Times " reported this evidence — which , having been given in a foreign court , was not protected by absolute privilege . |