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The phrase "having been a student" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to indicate a past experience or state related to being a student. Example: "Having been a student at that university, I can attest to the quality of education provided."
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He, like the others, became a participant in historic disaster, having been a student of it.
Having been a student of both his father's mood swings and televisual technique, Ailes, unsurprisingly, became, in Sherman's words, a "big fan" of Leni Riefenstahl.
He was immensely proud of having been a student at Oxford and St Peter's in particular and he was in tears when I told him that he had been made an honorary fellow.
It turned out that Sven Goran Eriksson was more English in approach than Sir Alf Ramsey, having been a student and admirer of the English game, particularly Bobby Robson's Ipswich Town.
He received word from a priest in Mexico that a man named John Manderville had just died from alcoholism and had mentioned Applegate often, having been a student of his.
Having been a student at the graduate school of religion at Vanderbilt, I was asking him a lot of questions about aspects of his faith that I knew nothing about.
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Ms. Coit had been a student at Hunter College until about a year ago, a spokeswoman for the college, Meredith Halpern, wrote in an e-mail.
She had been a student of theirs.
Andrew had been a student at Columbia, a Roman Catholic.
He had been a student at a provincial English university.
He had been a student during the Vietnam War.
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