Example sentences of "having [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been a diehard opponent of freeing the serfs , he was very interested indeed in continuing the fight for noble rights through the medium of the courts . |
| 2 | Following dissension over the appointment to a professorship at Aberystwyth in 1919 ( connected in part with his having been a conscientious objector during the war of 1914–18 ) he withdrew from his academic post in order to study in the faculty of science at the University College . |
| 3 | The government had vetoed the proposal in late July , the abolition of automatic wage indexation ( which would have covered 85 per cent of the workforce ) having been a principal element in the government 's anti-inflation programme announced in March [ see pp. 37312-13 ] . |
| 4 | In some cases it is , if one is to retain the historical character of the religion , impossible : for example the fact can not be altered of Jesus having been a male human being . |
| 5 | HAVING BEEN a regular reader of your magazine for a few years now , I have been most interested in the regular updates on the progress in restoration of Bf 109G G-USTV . |
| 6 | On his return from the east , he found Arabs in the local Pyrenees also , Saracen raids from Spain having been a regular affliction here since the eighth century . |
| 7 | The public bar was a large L shaped room , one half of the L obviously having been a separate snug before the modernisation . |
| 8 | Rugby , five times the cup-winners , were their second-round victims , Brian 's brother , Robert , having been a key factor in the first-round dismissal of the holders , Shrewsbury . |
| 9 | He called on their respective governments to cut their public spending by up to 18 per cent , to exercise monetary restraint ( banknote issuing by local authorities having been a major factor in the inflationary spiral of the previous year ) , and to co-operate more fully with national policy decisions . |
| 10 | He was a past committee member of Selkirk Rugby Football Club , having been a keen player in his youth . |
| 11 | The Scottish wildcat is still being hunted despite having been a protected species since 1988 , according to a report from the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland . |
| 12 | He was chairman of the Friends of Glenalmond and , having been a strong supporter of the Territorial Army , had recently been appointed Honorary Colonel of 32 ( Scottish ) Signal Regiment ( V ) . |
| 13 | The Republic of the Philippines became independent in July 1946 , having been a Spanish colony until 1898 when the islands were ceded to the United States . |
| 14 | He could remember how , after moving out here and having been a city-dweller all of his life , he 'd come to realise that he 'd never known what true darkness was ; even away from houses and street lighting there had always been a faint , reflected amber cast to the sky , but here there was nothing . |
| 15 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 16 | After all , Papa was only just forty-one , and Mama was younger than that , and they were both so handsome that it was a wonder — or perhaps not — that they were so faithful to one another , so much so that it was almost a joke , Papa having been a great ladies ' man in his youth , she had discovered . |
| 17 | She is also one of the few Labour frontbenchers with ministerial experience , having been a junior Education Minister . |
| 18 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 19 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 20 | John Boraston took over as Principal Agent in 1912 , having been a professional organizer all his career and latterly chief agent to the Liberal Unionist Council . |
| 21 | Samuel Sharp writing in 1847 says : ‘ There is evidence … of its having been a Roman settlement in the time of Agricola , and that his legions established here a permanent encampment , the remains of which are clearly traceable even to the present day . ’ |
| 22 | HAVING BEEN a close follower of The Lone Groover and loon pant ads in the NME of the '70s , I had formed a lasting impression of The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly as an impenetrable fortress of wit , intellect and sneering clever-gits . |
| 23 | Furthermore , " The Governors inspected the School building and the darkness of the large room having been a frequent source of complaint and of expense in the use of gas [ for lighting ] , Captain Sykes offered at his own cost to employ an architect and have the windows lowered to a suitable height . " |
| 24 | It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century . |
| 25 | Eventually I untangled them and muttered something to him about it having been a hair-raising experience … |
| 26 | He went on , however , to accuse the President of having been a habitual cocaine user in the 1970s , and of attempting to seduce his ( Pedro 's ) wife . |
| 27 | Making himself an extra five hundred pound a year for er having been a naughty boy when he was a teenager . |
| 28 | The gymnasium , swimming pool and even classrooms have been given a new lease of life as part of a timeshare development — such facilities having been a positive attraction to buyers . |
| 29 | New editor Alan Lewis was a veteran of the weekly rock press , having been a senior writer on Melody Maker and editor of Sounds during its late '70s glory days . |
| 30 | He regards this somewhat gruelling routine as having been a vital part of his training . |