Example sentences of "having [been] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answering a question is a reaction to having been asked a question . |
| 2 | Eden was so angry at having been made a fool of that the Director General of MI6 , Sir John ‘ Sinbad ’ Sinclair , was obliged to retire prematurely and was replaced by the head of MI5 , Sir Dick White . |
| 3 | Butterworth was ‘ on the skids ’ , having been made a scapegoat by Acheson for the bankruptcy of American policy in China ; Butterworth would shortly be posted abroad , which was correct as he soon afterwards departed to be American minister in Stockholm . |
| 4 | His relief at not having been made a fool of was matched by his curiosity to find out who the devil he was , this man Iying chest down on the wet flagstones , face turned to one side as though asleep . |
| 5 | A hospital in the Bradford district had renovated some ward space for geriatric patients who subsequently ended up elsewhere , the purchasers presumably having been made an offer they could n't refuse . |
| 6 | After World War two , a lot of people hoped that the we 'll call them the less agreeable characteristics of the German mind , would be changed by the traumatic experiences of the second total defeat in twenty years , physical destruction , national humiliation , embarrassment at having been made the collaborators of nazism and so on . |
| 7 | ONE OF the world 's major orchid shows is to open in Glasgow in May , in spite of the event 's having been dubbed a fiasco less than a month ago . |
| 8 | Having been elected a member of the executive committee in 1937 , he took Ayliffe 's place as editor of The Deaf Quarterly News in 1944 . |
| 9 | Duncan 's small room , with a metal-framed cot , small table and two chairs , was one of the best in the hotel , having been repainted a sickly pale green only six months earlier . |
| 10 | Everyone in France fervently hoped that , having been denied a grand finale on the Paris stage by a bunch of mean Englishmen in the World Cup , Blanco would get a second chance . |
| 11 | Léonie had discovered that , without ever having been taught a single rule of grammar , she spoke the language perfectly . |
| 12 | This having been done the whole program is in x — IF/ALT , as required , after perhaps some renaming of bound variables . |
| 13 | This having been done the " what if " situations can be analysed and examined . |
| 14 | JIMMY CONNORS , who beat John McEnroe in a bitter final eight years ago , returns to Wembley next month , having been given a wild card for the tournament which begins on 7 November , when the 37-year-old faces McEnroe again . |
| 15 | These would subsequently be tried out and evaluated in the classroom , the teacher having been given a set of possible procedures for doing this . |
| 16 | Its Dominican monastery is where the Czech protestant reformer John Huss was imprisoned in 1415 , despite having been given a safe conduct to appear before the Council of Konstanz . |
| 17 | Er I was fully aware of the fact that er you know , some people say , particularly in the fitting departments where experience had taught the fitters , having been given a free hand , er that they accumulated all the parts for a job , or even part of the job , they did certain assemblies you know , until they got all the part pieces assembled ready to combine it into the main unit , erm that experience er was being overtaken by an introduction of smaller units being assembled you know , bit by bit as they were being produced in the machine shop . |
| 18 | In the five years between then and mid-October 1992 , it has grown to 543 billion , having been given a significant fillip by sterling 's withdrawal from the ERM on 16 September 1992 . |
| 19 | The 26-year-old was a free agent having been given a free transfer by the Scottish Premier League club , and flew to Belfast on Friday to complete the deal . |
| 20 | Erwin Guzmán Gutiérrez , one of the country 's leading drug traffickers thought to be closely linked with the Colombian Calí cartel , surrendered on July 11 after having been given a guarantee of " juridical security " . |
| 21 | Having been given a perfect platform to put Sri Lanka under severe pressure by their openers , the middle order yesterday slumped from 316 for three to 380 all out . |
| 22 | Why should the poor child be pushed into the world , having been given no choice , no option , no chance of refusal ? |
| 23 | It is as if governments , having been given the gifts of technology , set them loose without an idea of how or even a wish to restrain them . |
| 24 | She was on the very first Dreamflight in 1987 as a leukaemia sufferer and was now back as a helper , having been given the all-clear this year . |
| 25 | Having been given the opportunity to come together , we did n't intend to let it go . |
| 26 | I appreciate , Mr. Deputy Speaker , having been given the opportunity to take part in the debate . |
| 27 | For instance , if the directors of the smaller company have had to issue consideration shares at a significant discount to the market price in order to persuade shareholders of the larger company to accept the offer the minority may argue that not only have they been diluted unfairly but also that this has resulted in control passing into the hands of third parties and that they are , effectively , investors in an entirely different company without having been given the opportunity to accept an offer or exercise their rights of challenge under CA 1985 , s430C . |
| 28 | The Royal Fusiliers were to advance on the German lines the following morning , having been given the responsibility for breaking through their northern flank . |
| 29 | ( 12 August 1773 ) Later , having been given an extension to his leave by Colloredo , who was himself in Vienna in August , he again wrote : |
| 30 | As for the television programme , I was asked to appear 36 hours in advance , having been sent the large number of documents . |