Example sentences of "having be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admit to having been a bit sceptical beforehand about this year 's family holiday to Florida but it turned out to be a huge success , not least on account of the terrific food and service we encountered everywhere . |
| 2 | It was alright to come to your marriage , having been a bit of a one for the girls , but it was n't at all good to come to your marriage having been a bit of a one with the lads . |
| 3 | It was alright to come to your marriage , having been a bit of a one for the girls , but it was n't at all good to come to your marriage having been a bit of a one with the lads . |
| 4 | In 1672 , having been a widower for two years , he married a daughter of the imprisoned republican general , John Lambert , which hardly argues any diminution in his commitment to the ‘ Good Old Cause ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's the way it should be , ’ said Joanna , then added grimly , ‘ but , having been a locum in many practices … ’ |
| 6 | He did n't think having been a member of Big Flame was a qualification for either post . |
| 7 | The effects of the acquisition are not given since it is treated as always having been a member of the group . |
| 8 | I still feel a sense of pride at having been a member of the Three-Ninetieth . |
| 9 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 10 | She then returned to work for JS in 1992 at Watchmoor Park , on the deli counter , having been a customer throughout the decades which saw the development of supermarkets into the modern stores of today . |
| 11 | Denys Darlow said : ‘ Having been a church musician since the age of eight as a chorister and later as an organist and choirmaster , the words of the Te Deum became a constant recurrence in my life and grew in significance as I grew older . ’ |
| 12 | Peter the Great had a particular liking for Scots , probably influenced by his mother who had been reared by a Scotswoman , and by his own guardian after his father 's death having been a General Menzies . |
| 13 | Having been a nurse . |
| 14 | She wondered if she should tell him about Amy 's having been a nurse . |
| 15 | It was the same mentality that led him into the folie de grandeur of thinking that , having been a champion driver , he was also fitted to run a motor-racing team — indeed , to think that he was better fitted to do so than those for whom he had worked and driven . |
| 16 | It 's hard to imagine Mr Fogg , for example , ever having been a train-spotter : if there was any train-spotting to be done , Mr Fogg would have despatched his loyal French manservant Passepartout to do it on his behalf . |
| 17 | Having been a King 's scholar at Westminster , he attended Trinity College , Cambridge , and was entered at Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 18 | This chap with the leg or something who wants to see you said something about being or having been a patient , but not being here as one now , and as he 's loaded with flowers for you and I did n't know how Old Red would take it , I used the sterilizer . ’ |
| 19 | Having been a subscriber from your first issue , I find myself already amazed at how often I refer to my various back numbers . |
| 20 | He was named to the high court of justice in January 1649 , attending no less than fourteen of its sittings , including the occasion on which judgment was given against the king ; he did not , however , sign the death warrant , although there is no corroborative evidence for the statement that he positively refused to do so , and in 1660–1 he was clearly regarded — albeit posthumously — as having been a regicide . |
| 21 | Looking back on all this , is one to judge him as having been a success or a failure ? |
| 22 | I 've never fancied the stars , having been a computer programmer in early life , but it may be a truth that mathematicians are often superstitious . ’ |
| 23 | If you are a woman , what do you feel about Jesus having been a man ? |
| 24 | If you are a man , what do you feel about Jesus having been a man ? |
| 25 | The Stroud district of Gloucestershire was well developed ‘ Stroudwaters ’ having been a household name for nearly a century . |
| 26 | In 1891 the point was severely reiterated by Dr Maclagan , the Archbishop of York , who was a strong objector to moustaches despite having been a major in the Madras cavalry and who walked ‘ as though he had his loins girded by a sword belt ’ . |
| 27 | The Chairman of the Board was due to be appointed at the end of last month , and is expected ( according to the old ‘ rules ’ ) to be the Christian Democrat Gian Luigi Rondi ( who admitted to not even knowing who Francis Bacon was ) , the last one having been a Socialist , the architect Paolo Portoghesi . |
| 28 | The Republic of Namibia achieved independence in March 1990 [ see pp. 37296-97 ] , having been a colony since 1884 , first under German and , since 1915 , under South African rule . |
| 29 | To feel compassion for men without having been a separatist is dangerous . |
| 30 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |