Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [adv] been [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also good to have Cicely Harris back with us after her hip operation , a model patient it appears who has already been allowed to discard her crutches in favour of one stick . |
| 2 | Reborn duo Chuck and Babba gained mixing experience with Clail , dubmaster Adrian Sherwood and Chuck 's big brother Mark Stewart , who has also been put to work . |
| 3 | If a Conservative MP X or Y , who has not been known to take ideological stands , approaches a minister or a whip and expresses grave doubts , this is viewed with considerable worry and it is assumed that these objections have been put forward by the MP only after the points have been put to him with equal or greater force in his constituency . |
| 4 | Bartman , who has not been allowed to live at the house he has shared in Chelsea with his partner of 23 years , David Cohen , as a condition of bail , will now be able to return home . |
| 5 | ‘ I think it is important that judges should retire earlier than they do , ’ said Mr Hewitt , of Etherley , near Bishop Auckland , who retired in his 73rd year but who has regularly been recalled to sit in judgement during the past two years . |
| 6 | The decision is a boost for Warwick Rimmer , who brings on the young players at Tranmere , reserve coach Ray Matthias and manager John King who has often been forced to play senior players coming back from injury against youth teams . |
| 7 | It was like being a child again , but a secure one rather than someone like her who 'd never been encouraged to cry out her troubles and fears . |
| 8 | The help given to Caratacus by his allies inside the province must have revealed the secret caches of arms still available to the Britons , who had probably been required to surrender all their weapons on defeat or under treaty obligations . |
| 9 | All sorts of people , Cypriot and Lebanese , wandered in and out all the time , sometimes escorted , sometimes not , and although El-Jorr seemed to know most of them , there were clearly some who had simply been told to drop in and introduce themselves . |
| 10 | We were particularly pleased that Lady More , our President , who had not been expected to speak , said a few words about her late husband 's interest in railways and congatulating us on our achievement . |
| 11 | the most expedient course to consult the architect who had already been employed to prepare plans for the particular office now to be built , and who from his official position in connexion with the Board of Works might be resorted to with the least invidiousness to the professional public . |
| 12 | Too Soon for Love was , like Cry Baby Killer , straightforward sensationalism of the still current topic of youth rebellion and teenage violence , yet another sequel to Rebel Without a Cause with Nicholson playing a secondary role in a gang of second-rate , cut-price actors who had clearly been chosen to look like the originals in the Dean film . |
| 13 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
| 14 | 53 said the assistant manager , who had earlier been asked to put our 50 chairs , and who then had to find another three in a panic when some extra people arrived . |
| 15 | A team of ballistic missiles experts headed by Douglas Englund , who had earlier been forced to abandon their mission [ see p. 38451 ] , arrived on Oct. 1 following the government 's approval of helicopter flights , and on Oct. 8 Englund announced that UN inspectors had completed the destruction of Iraq 's first " super-gun " [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390-91 ; 37471 ; 38361 ] as part of a programme to supervise the demolition of 28 declared Iraqi missile launch sites . |
| 16 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 17 | Staff who had long been encouraged to develop treatment relationships towards prisoners had little time left for this important work after discharging tasks arising from the need to concentrate on security . |
| 18 | Yesterday Mr Endara , who had apparently been allowed to escape , took refuge in the Papal Nuncio 's home . |
| 19 | Daniel Carey returned to Frizingley as its Chartist Candidate entirely by chance , the gentleman who had originally been selected to fight the by-election having taken up a longish residence in jail on charges of plug-drawing and helping to demolish a workhouse near Rochdale . |
| 20 | Mikaela von Koskull , who had originally been selected to sail on Martela OF but who eventually sailed with Maiden , will lead a group that includes Dawn Riley , Claire Russel , Jeni Munday and Nancy Hill . |
| 21 | Besides , those who thoroughly understand the possibilities of their own language are more likely to want to venture into the world of literature than those who have never been taught to have an ear or an eye for language . |
| 22 | I join my hon. Friend in deprecating the attacks made by the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) on Anne Parkinson and Sheila Taylor , who have rightly been appointed to serve on trusts . |