Example sentences of "having [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having relied for a lifetime on hearing to give information from the environment , it is not easy to replace the instantaneous warning system . |
| 2 | Having painted as a child , Stewart began to experiment at college ( the American College of London ) by applying patterns to everything in sight , from folding screens to lamps , and floor cloths to cutlery handles . |
| 3 | This has nothing to do with how policemen look nor even of never having heard of a bunch called James , who are apparently big stars , have their name emblazoned all over a chic t-shirt and of whom one had never heard till yesterday . |
| 4 | In a statement issued shortly after Patten 's departure on Oct. 23 , Lu Ping , head of the Chinese State Council 's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office , accused Patten of having violated the Basic Law and also of having reneged on a series of secret Sino-British agreements on " convergence " between Hong Kong 's current political system and its post-1997 status as a special administrative region . |
| 5 | N. W. Pirie casts doubts on the figure of 100 000 meteorites having Fallen in a shower in Poland in 1868 ( Letters , 31 March , p 914 ) . |
| 6 | At this point , the Taxman 's wife expressed moral outrage at the discovery that her husband would , without compunction , report her misdeeds , or those of her daughter , to the authorities , and the Philosopher was left with a sense of having stumbled upon a set of basic moral presumptions which are held in common by one sex , and entirely inverted in the case of the other — a looking-glass reversal of priorities and values . |
| 7 | Before the IUD could do its work conception must already have taken place , egg and sperm having fused in a fallopian , and the multiplying cells travelled down to the womb to seek a place of anchorage , a home which the alpha-shaped loop by its very presence denied them , causing the minute beginnings of an embryo to swim in vain and ultimately be shed . |
| 8 | Having looked at a number of hypothetical fossil records varying in degree of completeness , they state that ‘ Sometimes fossils can be used in phytogenetic reconstruction without reference to stratigraphy : sometimes they can be used in combination with stratigraphy : sometimes they can not be used at all ; and sometimes phylogeny is in principle not reconstructible . ’ |
| 9 | In the circumstances of the case , Lord Macnaughton regarded Mr. Bruce as having come under a duty to the wife and he said , at p. 137 : |
| 10 | First , I recall that when I was a theological student , having come from a fairly conservative church , I could not square up I Kings with I Chronicles . |
| 11 | Having come from a country afflicted by the worst drought in recent memory it should have come as no surprise that the Namibians were able to handle the Sicilian heat . |
| 12 | The bolts themselves can vary in size , and the example illustrated is quite small , probably having come from a box . |
| 13 | Having committed to a budget , never will he let the finance people tell him how to get there . |
| 14 | With special affection I remember the metro railway enthusiasts who , confronted by rigorous structuralist films or scenes of sexual and scatalogical excess , walked out of the cinema in baffled confusion during the first NFT International Underground Film Festival and indignantly demanded their money back after having booked for a whole season of what seemed like fascinating specialist delights : German Underground , American Underground , Italian Underground . |
| 15 | The advantage of having trekked with a World Challenge Expedition is that another time she will know how things ought to be planned . |
| 16 | Reports of his side having struggled to a disappointing home draw with lowly Airdrie will not have been his sole concern as he takes stock of his Scottish investment . |
| 17 | Having began as a wild idea with a group of mates in a St Agnes pub , provoked by anger , frustration and too many evenings of getting home ill from the beach ; the SAS ' influence is now spreading well beyond Cornwall and the surfing community . |
| 18 | At the side , so , but she 's not having a garage or anything at the side , she 's having a side extension down below , but the front bit she 's having made into a shower room and then the back bit it 's gon na be like a morning room to the kitchen |
| 19 | Our early encounters with power may have deterred us from ever wanting to use it in a similar way ; having suffered from a cold , distant father or a smothering mother , and inevitably having attributed power to these parents , we may well decide that power is a negative force and not for us . |
| 20 | This must not be dismissed as mere metaphor since it could also be true of the reader , for whom a health check might reveal their having suffered from a range of complaints in blissful ignorance . |
| 21 | Awareness of having moved into a fresh and wider environment brought some interesting comments on our attitudes , reactions and problems as undergraduates . |
| 22 | Or , having decided on a day 's menu , discovering that you do n't have the right ingredients to hand ? |
| 23 | Having decided on a transformation whose result may be the present tree , undoing this transformation . |
| 24 | Having decided upon a recommendation that a particular church should be declared redundant , the Pastoral Committee sends the papers relating to the proposal to the bishop of that diocese . |
| 25 | Having decided upon a prefabricated pool , the next stage is to get it into the ground . |
| 26 | Having decided upon a starting place , what can follow from the current state ? |
| 27 | With the final qualifying meet having clashed with a Commonwealth Games get together , Scottish representation at the Superfinal is disappointing . |
| 28 | These followed two decades of consolidation of the ‘ stable democracies ’ in the Western capitalist world , and of the presumably ‘ stable autocracies ’ in the socialist world of Eastern Europe , as well as the emergence of a ‘ Third World ’ ( including many newly independent states ) which was conceived by most Western political scientists as having embarked upon a process of gradual ‘ modernization ’ and ‘ industrialization ’ . |
| 29 | Archie 's Nephew , a stable-companion of Rushing Wild , was scoring for the first time this season , having acted as a schoolmaster for novice riders in several earlier runs . |
| 30 | Having acted in a Conservative manner , especially at election times , one starts to take oneself for a Conservative ( i.e. Bem , 1967 ) . |