Example sentences of "having [vb pp] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beneficiaries thus regard themselves as having received no more than their due , to which they were entitled anyhow , while those whose benefits are discontinued regard themselves as cheated of what they had a right to and had been encouraged to expect . |
| 2 | But having done it , having completed the half a day or whatever it is we have , you know it 's not really a case of saying Right well that 's it . |
| 3 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |
| 4 | The authority of the Minister of Health ( the new Ministry having succeeded the former Local Government Board ) was no longer required for the preparation of a scheme ; instead , all that was necessary was the resolution of a local council . |
| 5 | On July 12 Castro congratulated the deputies on " not having made the least concession in these difficult moments " ( referring to the growing economic crisis ) . |
| 6 | He was going to look it up , whip down to Boots and , having bought a few quidsworth , sell it to Henry at ten per cent over the retail value . |
| 7 | Coffey died in Bromley , Middlesex , 26 November 1852 , his eldest son Aeneas having died a few months earlier . |
| 8 | Therefore the woman , not having had the same training as a man can not possibly demand the same wage ; also not being physically as strong , she can not compete with him where heavy lifting is required . |
| 9 | What will the impact be of this on subsequent rehabilitation , having had the same stress of acute infarct ? |
| 10 | Never having shown the same propensity as the French for violent revolution , the dispossessed have entered into a complex ritual of action within the processes of the criminal justice system , and in doing so have encouraged those tasked with their containment to consider them as being less than human and therefore needing further control and discipline . |
| 11 | He was mentioned in despatches , for having displayed the same casual courage his companions had remarked on before the war as he pursued his favourite pastime of mountaineering ( he had neither the time nor patience for golf and was reckoned by devotees to be only a fair-weather fisherman ) . |
| 12 | Personally , we at ZZAP ! prefer a nice quiet game of dominoes , but we do confess to having played a few of these strip poker games on the 64 before . |
| 13 | A big man , six foot four inches in his socks and a good fourteen stone , he always looked mildly untidy , and this morning , having worn the same clothes for a day and a half he looked like a football supporter after a night in the cells . |
| 14 | Adam Czartoryski , who was forced into Parisian exile after having proved a less than satisfactory choice as head of the Polish insurgent government , found himself able , in the west , to create " a diplomatic agency which was to influence , and at times even direct , the foreign policies of the great powers " . |
| 15 | Having spent a few years in both camps the matter was resolved in 1981 when Stoddards and Templetons were merged . |
| 16 | Indeed , where success is possible with a pass mark of 50 per cent or less and there is a choice of questions on the examination papers , two pupils may pass who have little in common beyond having attained the same grade . |
| 17 | In 1899 the London , Chatham and Dover and the South Eastern Railways were brought under the operational control of a joint managing committee and Sykes was appointed consulting electrical engineer to the new organization , in which capacity he continued until his death , having served the same railway for fifty-four years . |
| 18 | At twenty-eight , I began to find myself , having overcome the many spiritual depths I 'd sunk to in my emotional isolation . |
| 19 | The superiority of this latter group on a test task which involved choice between A and B could well depend on their having learned different labels ( and on the control group having learned the same label ) for these stimuli . |
| 20 | Thomas 's contribution could not have been more timely , Tommy Tynan having equalised an own goal by David Byrne . |
| 21 | Having read a few of your articles I tried sighting the neck by looking down from the headstock end ( as you frequently suggest ) and the neck appears to be very curved , almost banana shaped ! |
| 22 | She resisted all temptations to give in to homesickness : she had been given the choice between staying at home and starting a new life , and having chosen the latter she was determined to enjoy every waking minute to the full . |
| 23 | They ran over a few in their minds , having acquired the same references . |