Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [been] active " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the death , at the age of 66 , of Mr. Philip Henry Thomas which took place after a long illness , on Saturday the 18th instant , at his residence at 13 Rusham Road , Battersea loses a citizen who has been active for 40 years in championing the cause of Liberalism in this borough … . |
| 2 | The latter probably included correspondence with Colonel Filipović in Belgrade , who has been active for many years in agitating for firmer action |
| 3 | One immediate response to the CEGB 's announcement was the formation of the Alliance Against Hinkley C. This brought together a mixture of Friends of the Earth supporters from Bristol — only some twenty-five miles north of Hinkley — and others who had been active in the Somerset anti-waste-dumping campaign of the 1970s . |
| 4 | In the duchy of Cornwall ( part of the patrimony of the prince of Wales ) , Rivers ' office of receiver went to John Sapcote , one of Edward IV 's esquires of the body , who had been active in the Fitzwarin estates in the south west since at least 1477 . |
| 5 | Its leader was George Edwards , a devout Primitive Methodist lay preacher , who had been active during the earlier period of unionization in the 1870s and in brief revivals during the intervening years . |
| 6 | ‘ A charitable woman who had been active in the Nationalist movement gave us rooms in an old house and collected money from her friends . |
| 7 | In televised speeches to the country , President Carlos Andrés Pérez said that the coup attempt had been instigated by rebel officers from the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement ( MBR-200 ) supporting Lt.-Col. Chávez , and by a number of small left-wing groups , including Bandera Roja ( " Red Flag " ) and Tercer Camino ( " Third Way " ) , headed by Douglas Bravo , who had been active as a guerrilla in the 1960s . |
| 8 | In the duchy of Cornwall ( part of the patrimony of the prince of Wales ) , Rivers ' office of receiver went to John Sapcote , one of Edward IV 's esquires of the body , who had been active in the Fitzwarin estates in the south west since at least 1477 . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the Duchess of Atholl , a Conservative who had been active in support of the Republicans , took a leading part in the Alliance . |
| 10 | ANWIC 's steering committee is composed of women who have been active in the WACC women 's programme and the Asia Region workshops covering some 13 countries . |
| 11 | Daniel Omara Atubu was arrested in Kampala on 15 April 1991 , at the time of a major counter-insurgency operation by the Ugandan army against rebels who have been active in the northern districts of Gulu , Kitgum , Lira and Apac since 1986 . |
| 12 | It remains to be seen if this impressionistic statement is correct or whether it will apply to future generations of elderly women who have been active in the labour market for most of their adult life . |