Example sentences of "having been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , having been the rebel from the NHS , I had turned maverick and become the rebel of Bristol . |
| 2 | As a career move , it was a disaster : for the past 300 years , he has been remembered almost solely for having been the butt of some of Dryden 's most swingeing satirical couplets . |
| 3 | Thus Justin Martyr , writing around A.D. 150 , speaks of those who regard Jesus as having been the Messiah , yet at the same time still a man . |
| 4 | Richard Stratford of Farmcote , in Guiting Power parish , Gloucestershire , having been the king 's painter , was granted arms in 1484 . |
| 5 | Their concern was not that others might come here one day and identify the place as having been the kidnappers ' hideout ; rather , that those examiners would never discover who the kidnappers had been . |
| 6 | The Parish Registers record his burial on 5th September 1597 , and both they and his will testify to his having been the Master . |
| 7 | Well Spinks did well to win the place from the young Australian this season with Bosnich having been the man in possession of the goalkeeper 's gloves most of last season . |
| 8 | Von Gallwitz was a talented artillerist , having been the Inspector General of the Field Artillery just before the war , and more recently had added to his lustre in leading the Eleventh Army to victory in Serbia . |
| 9 | One could say that the sentence ‘ It was the knave of hearts who stole the tarts ’ puts the state of affairs of its having been the knave of hearts who stole the tarts upon the mat for discussion . |
| 10 | Almost immediately on arrival , surrounded by the cosmopolitan excitement of New York , its immense anonymity , the total lack of personal interest shown towards him after having been the centre of warmth and appreciation in Montreal , he knew that it was not for him . |
| 11 | The shop bell had tinkled frequently for the past hour , most of the customers having been the ha'penny and penny ones , some of whom were now standing outside at the shop window oohing and aahing at the Christmas goodies displayed there , all entwined with coloured streamers and illuminated by the two gas lamps attached to the side wall of the shop and plopping inside their pretty pink glass globes , while casting a rosy light overall , even over the small faces pressed against the window . |
| 12 | For , as we shall see , the topic we are about to review has many different strands , having been the subject of extensive and increasingly systematic enquiry from several different points of view that have taken it well beyond the realm of intuitive speculation from which it began . |
| 13 | In Steele v. Williams , the judgment of Martin B. was certainly on the basis that the money , having been the subject of an ultra vires demand by a public officer , was as such recoverable . |
| 14 | Perversely , a settlement which is seen as having been the subject of more bitter dispute may persuade voters that nothing was given away too lightly . |
| 15 | In ( 145 ) and ( 146 ) , the subject of cause is clearly a condition , and the to infinitive evokes its consequence : the causal agent is not conceived as actually doing anything in either of these sentences but merely as having been the condition giving rise to a new state of affairs . |
| 16 | November 1985 saw the retirement of Mr. Joe Blackshaw , who had completed 20 years as Caretaker , having been the groundsman for the previous 20 . |
| 17 | There was a report on Bill Proudfoot 's departure from Australia in August 1968 , having been the Manager since 1961 . |
| 18 | previously having been the project co-ordinator of the Hackney Agency for Music Marketing Action ( HAMMA ) . |
| 19 | Charles Barry Junior , who chaired the lecture , spoke warmly of ‘ his great , his exceeding kindness to all those younger than himself ’ , having been the recipient of many instances of it in his own career . |
| 20 | Having been the apple of Tom Tremayne 's eye , since his death Liza increasingly craved any man 's attention and admiration . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's admitted having been the lad person to see His Royal Highness , ’ he said sulkily . |