Example sentences of "having [verb] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Naturally we at the centre are very pleased at having developed the most advanced bionic arm in the world . |
| 2 | Having completed the very demanding annual Personal Weapons Test , each section member was required to run up a plank of wood to a window-frame , shoot at a target on the other side of the window , and then throw himself six feet down into a simulated building interior . |
| 3 | Set against these deficiencies is the fact that psychiatry — if only by dint of the accumulated experience that comes from having to observe the more unusual among us — has developed a ‘ language of symptoms ’ that can prove useful in throwing the features of that deviance into high relief . |
| 4 | Having made the somewhat contentious statement on Caribbean parents ' distorted appreciation of their function in relation to their children 's formal education , I am left to qualify and substantiate , particularly as it has a weighty bearing on the general argument of the entire book . |
| 5 | Casualties on both sides proved to be fairly light , the horses having suffered the most . |
| 6 | Of that number considerably less than one-tenth were actually imprisoned for the full period specified , the mere ordering of the execution against the body having produced the almost immediate payment of the debt in nine cases out of ten . |
| 7 | Goldmann rejects Mannheim 's position as having offered the most traditional and unreflexive criterion of truth by making the free-floating intelligentsia its arbiters . |
| 8 | In spite of her apparent self-confidence , in spite of her twenty-five years , in spite of having had the best that money could buy since she was a little girl , there was an ingenuousness about Harriet which sprung from a yearning need to prove herself — to her father , to her contemporaries , to the whole wide world . |
| 9 | Having isolated the most pressing area of weakness , the real work can begin . |
| 10 | Having brushed the most obvious dirt off his clothes , Dean sat down . |
| 11 | It 's a thankless task then , because despite having become the most successful band of the time , you pick up flak for the next album not working commercially . |
| 12 | Now , it is true that Morris , having become the youngest-ever captain of Glamorgan when just 22 , resigned three years later because the pressures of the job were , he felt , affecting not only his form but his entire life . |
| 13 | Why , having found herself remarkably unmoved by her succession of boyfriends to date , even Jeremy 's cunning ploys and reasoned arguments , and having reached the not inconsiderable age of twenty-four , had she been consumed with that burning hunger last night ? |
| 14 | Having reached the most distant onlookers , a young couple pushing up-and-down a baby in a pram , the girl drew tight the neck of the bag and strolled with it to the stage . |
| 15 | Coming home to the lesbian in me , my joys and fears were of a different nature from those posed by continually having to straddle the mutually hostile worlds of lesbianism and heterosexuality . |
| 16 | Both China and India were signatories , but only on condition that they received substantial assistance from the West ( both financial and technological ) to ensure that they were not penalized economically for having to use the more expensive alternatives to CFCs . |
| 17 | After one outbreak of shoving and stage-diving they even say , with tongues steadfastly in their cheeks : ‘ Be cool , the British press are here tonight ’ ( no doubt having spotted the slowly melting figure of Sirrs , trickling away into a corner ) . |
| 18 | Then , after having taken the most daring steps forward he sometimes retreats a few paces , so that on comparing two paintings close in date the earlier example often seems more advanced and developed . |
| 19 | But when is he going to give an ounce of credit to the Government for having set up the TECs , for having put in place the instrument of the training revolution that is now taking place in this country , and for having taken the most imaginative step that we have ever seen in our training history ? |
| 20 | Having identified the most likely candidates I shall then consider the critical experimental evidence ( which again derives from studies of the role of contextual factors ) . |
| 21 | The result was seen as having strengthened the somewhat precarious position of Prime Minster Toshiki Kaifu within the party . |
| 22 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |