Example sentences of "having [be] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | having been in the US 's ‘ back yard ’ I know how little attention is paid to those issues there . |
| 2 | After having been in the thick of the battle for a number of years , Haslam found the transition to main board director in 1974 somewhat difficult to adjust to . |
| 3 | Having been in the front rank at the first fence he dropped back , and as the field came past the stands for the first time , with most of the runners still surviving , he had few behind him . |
| 4 | SIR — Having been in the ‘ think-tank ’ of the Cheltenham rebels after the initial selection of John Taylor as Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate ( article , April 11 ) , I feel obliged to point out that the best of us are not motivated by knee-jerk racism . |
| 5 | Having been in the militia in 1910 , when he was 14 , on the outbreak of war he joined the Canadian Army as a private in the Western Universities Battalion and was soon promoted NCO . |
| 6 | Unlike the other mills powered by the Painswick Stream , there is no evidence to suggest that it has ever been anything but a corn mill , virtually all the others having been in the woollen cloth trade at some time . |
| 7 | I had the advantage of having been in the Civil Service in the war and [ was ] even offered establishment in the Treasury as a permanent thing . |
| 8 | All three officers were , however , good meteorologists , having been in the Met Office in civilian life and put into uniform for convenience' sake . |
| 9 | But in South Africa , after having been in the lead for forty-three laps , he had to retire with a seized gear-box . |
| 10 | But he admitted to a great sense of satisfaction at having been in the job at a time when the world had ‘ seen the most rapid political changes in the past 50 years ’ , from the end of the Cold War to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union , and the appointment of former POCs like Vaclav Havel to become heads of state . |
| 11 | In addition , with loans from private collectors as well as museums in Germany and abroad , thirty-eight out of the thirty-nine surviving snuff boxes recorded as having been in the possession of Frederick the Great have been assembled . |
| 12 | Despite a review in 1989 , by the end of 1991 half of all senior registrars were accredited , one third of them having been in the grade for over six years . |
| 13 | How could she , never before having been in the tube ? |
| 14 | And it is now one of the most efficient and profitable steel producers in the world — having been in the Guinness Book of Records as the world 's worst loss-maker . |
| 15 | Despite having been in the open for only a few seconds , they had been soaked . |
| 16 | I sometimes think they have a neurosis about not having been in the blitz . ’ |
| 17 | That honour went to the Phoenix , which despite having been in the wars , returned a very respectable Power Index of 11,857 . |
| 18 | The Secretary , Liz Tildesley , was leaving the club as a result of work commitments ; and the Treasurer , Alan Pedley , would not be standing again after having been in the post for six years . |
| 19 | There is no record of a dram-bottle from Darwin ever having been in the family ; there is , however , a beautiful silver compass inscribed ‘ Mr. Gould from C. Darwin Esq ’ . |
| 20 | Over and again eye-witnesses at Verdun testify to the curious sensation of having been in the line twice , three times , without ever having seen an enemy infantryman . |