Example sentences of "having been [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The case arose out of a fatal road accident in Illinois , the plaintiff 's parents having been killed as a result of a head-on collision between their Volkswagen Rabbit and another vehicle . |
| 32 | This may be the fact of their having been enacted by a specific body , or their long customary practice , or their relation to judicial decisions . |
| 33 | But , though pre-tax profits for the year ending 31 December showed a technical increase of 16.1 per cent from 1991 's £28 million , that year 's profits figure was arrived at having been restated after an exceptional deduction of £4.2 million . |
| 34 | In 1415 , Hus was summoned to defend himself at the Council of Constance , having been assured of a safe conduct by the emperor Sigismund . |
| 35 | Parliament elects a President for a four-year term ( the current President , Wee Kim Wee , having been re-elected for a second term in August 1989 — see below ) who appoints a Cabinet headed by a Prime Minister and responsible to Parliament . |
| 36 | Thirty-one had been discharged by 1983 but with six of these patients having been transferred to a general hospital for physical illness and having subsequently died . |
| 37 | The bass has settled in well , with a good compromise having been achieved between a low action and — the enemy of 5-stringers everywhere — fretbuzz on the lower frets , which is barely noticeable here . |
| 38 | General Schwarzkopf , summing up the overall result on 27 February , described the rout of the Iraqi army as having been achieved by a ‘ flanking manoeuvre , trapping thousands of its troops ’ . |
| 39 | Now though , they were alone , walking to the car , Marguerite having been waylaid by an acquaintance . |
| 40 | Details about dates of employment and health physics records were obtained for all parents confirmed as having been employed at a nuclear establishment before their child 's cancer was diagnosed ( or for controls , before the date of diagnosis of the corresponding case ) . |
| 41 | I would have no effect at all on the kind of figures and the size of figures that we were considering , and , having been seen as a gesture , it would be really pointless to make it . |
| 42 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
| 43 | ( b ) Holding outsalaried partners In the United Bank of Kuwait case no particular consideration was given to the consequences of the undertaking having been given by a salaried partner . |
| 44 | " The Times " reported this evidence — which , having been given in a foreign court , was not protected by absolute privilege . |
| 45 | In the period 1 January 1988 to 30 June 1991 , 2 , 370 in-patient discharges were admitted as emergencies having been assaulted by a cutting or piercing instrument . |
| 46 | It had the same feeling of having been created for a special , mystical purpose . |
| 47 | increase agreement reached at the end of June , 1973 , and if it be right to regard this as having been reached under a kind of duress in the form of economic pressure , then what is said in Chitty on Contracts ( 24th ed. ) , para. 442 , to which both counsel referred me , is relevant , namely that a contract entered into under duress is voidable and not void |
| 48 | President Amin Gemayel ended six years in office on Sept. 22 , 1988 , without any agreement having been reached on a successor . |
| 49 | The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success . |
| 50 | When a client comes to see you , having been injured in an accident , they will be seeing you following what will probably have been the most traumatic event of their life . |
| 51 | In one recent case the victim of a stabbing died two and a half years after the incident , having been kept on a life-support machine for almost the entire time . |
| 52 | Korea is an ancient country with a very lengthy period of having been governed as a unified area ( from AD 668 to 1945 ) . |
| 53 | The decoration around the windows and along the string-course is delightful , the corbels especially having been sculpted into a strange and compelling variety of animals , monsters and more or less human figures . |
| 54 | a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives confirmed by the Institute as being of good standing and having been admitted as a Fellow for not less than three years ; |
| 55 | While these authorities restated the general rule attention was focused upon attempts to formulate and analyse the exceptions , especially where rights were accepted as having been bestowed upon a third party . |
| 56 | There was also speculation concerning the health of both Taufa'ahau Tupou and his aged Prime Minister , the former having cancelled a state visit to Japan in order to travel to Australia for medical treatment , the latter having been incapacitated for a number of years after suffering a stroke . |
| 57 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 58 | It is the oldest of its type , having been started by an ex-Army officer to show schoolteachers and clerics the classical world , and is now part of the P & O group . |
| 59 | When I entered the Winter Gardens he was emerging surrounded by an hysterical crowd , having been greeted by a demonstration described to me by a hostile witness as ‘ reminiscent of a Nuremberg Rally ’ . |
| 60 | No document of the period so cogently illustrates the swift descent into infidelity as does the semi-autobiographical novel of Samuel Butler ( 1835- 1902 ) , in which the hero , Ernest Pontifex , having been advised by a free-thinker to study the differing accounts of the resurrection in the four Gospels , finds that he can not reconcile the discrepancies . |