Example sentences of "having [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 2 | And from this point on , erm he , having given away a substantial erm amount of his private fortune , I think that T. |
| 3 | Having flown both the TB9 and TB10 the only real difference I noticed , apart from the speed , was the apparent heaviness of the nose when you reduce power in the flare . |
| 4 | She wished her parents lived in the Aran Islands and that there could be no question of her having to go home every night . |
| 5 | Having considered quite a complicated multiplier appropriate for an open economy , it is still worth while considering the ‘ standard ’ fiscal multipliers , usual in public finance texts . |
| 6 | And , having freed over a quarter of the world 's population from our colonial rule , we have no desire to lose our own independence . |
| 7 | HAVING OPERATED both the Douglas Dakota and the North American Harvard since the 1940s , the South African Air Force ( SAAF — or Suid-Afrikaanse Lugmag — SALM ) has treated both types equally . |
| 8 | By 1899 , having collected almost every available Prize and Exhibition there , he had obtained a First Class Honours degree in History at the London Examination , and his School Exhibition was extended to take him to Balliol College , Oxford , where he obtained a further First Class in History in 1903 . |
| 9 | You t you said about morale being , but why , and the , having met quite a few tenants from the flats , who in terms of individuals that have come in here , you know , to , to seek advice . |
| 10 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 11 | Having felt carefully the whole length of the injured leg , Sophie looked up . |
| 12 | I went to drama school having done all the correct things that drama students are supposed to ignore — like going to public school ( Wellington ) and dressing in conventional clothes . |
| 13 | He pointed out that the American Physical Society had invited him to give the talk , that he had completed a three — year research programme , having done all the necessary cross checks and controls , and had definitive results to present . |
| 14 | HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday . |
| 15 | The Army began calling up reserves for combat training for the first time in the crisis to date ( the Marines having done so a week previously ) . |
| 16 | The Scuds themselves have been a nuisance , the allies having under-estimated both the number of Iraq 's launchers and the ability of the Iraqi crews to conceal them . |
| 17 | having had rather a nasty shock when I had the car serviced the other day . |
| 18 | As expected , having had both a spell of registered unemployment in the last 12 months and also no full time job in the last 12 months contributes adversely to the individual 's chances of obtaining an offer . |
| 19 | At least in theory ; I must confess to being peculiarly hopeless at this style of climbing and having had quite a struggle on this route in the past , which in no way detracts from its quality . |
| 20 | Having watched both the East End Park team and Kilmarnock in action against Raith this month , my guess is that two teams from Fife will compete in the Premier Division for the first time next season — provided Dunfermline get their act together in defence . |
| 21 | HAVING watched almost every game in the World Cup , firstly in my Irish colours , and then in my Scottish colours ( although I live in Dublin , my mother was Scottish ! ) |
| 22 | ‘ The Satanic Verses has the good fortune of having become just a novel again , and I 'm very happy for it . |
| 23 | Middlesbrough-born Glendenen went on to score the first century , having become only the second Durham player to make a double-century when he hit 200 not out against Victoria last September in a three-day match unluckily denied first-class status . |
| 24 | John had advised him to transfer from Rome airport to the railway station to avoid a five hour wait at Rome , but oh ! no ! big boots insisted on flying , although the late flight from Rome is notorious — and , of course , just after John had left for Naples airport , having to do quite a lot of the journey on foot , as late evening buses stop at a given time on Public Holidays , rang to say that Alitalia was alleging weather problems at Naples and so the passengers would be transferred by coach arriving at 2am . |
| 25 | Within two years of starting my apprenticeship I was having to do roughly a man 's work , but my wages were only half a crown a week . |
| 26 | Soon after dawn , I set off , having packed away the sail and mast on the Land Rover . |
| 27 | Order 29 , r 1(3) provides that if the order was injunctive , it should have been served having borne thereon a " penal notice " — see below . |
| 28 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 29 | I 've had the opportunity to observe other social strata recently having spent quite a bit of time in London . |
| 30 | Caught off guard , in a mellow mood , away-from the pressures that the stance has been developed to shield them from , they too will admit to being disappointed and confused , not as hard-bitten as they make out , and as having found only a very inadequate solution to what seems to be an insoluble problem : how to do a good enough job . |