Example sentences of "who have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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31 | ‘ Great strapping brutes they were , with backs on them like the deck of a ship , ’ William 's grandad said , who 'd been thrown off both and knew . |
32 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
33 | The fifty nine year old singer who 'd been dogged by ill health died at his home in Arbroath on Monday . |
34 | At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey . |
35 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
36 | The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years . |
37 | ‘ There 's been evidence of naïvety among NHS managers who 've been seduced by fashionable trends . ’ |
38 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
39 | Or perhaps Miss Hopper should speak to the women who 've been raped by some of the men in here . |
40 | Doubt has been cast on a study which suggested that children of fathers who had been exposed to low levels of radiation in the course of their jobs were more likely to develop leukaemia . |
41 | They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
42 | He drew up a map of Scotland based on where the men lived and found the excess of cases in children from rural areas who had been exposed to those men . |
43 | Twenty youths were killed running to help two people who had been crushed by armoured vehicles on Student Square , said the agency . |
44 | His doubts about the nature and value of contemporary society were frequently expressed also in the Criterion ; in the issue of October 1935 , for example , he had talked about the plight of Papuan natives who had been corrupted by Western civilization . |
45 | It enabled Bush , who had been criticized for excessive prioritization of foreign policy , to demonstrate concern for and involvement in domestic affairs , and to demonstrate a commitment to civil rights at a time when Duke 's gubernatorial candidacy in Louisiana [ see above ] had embarrassed the Republican party . |
46 | Like all left-wingers , Lowe loathed Wilson , who had been elected in 1974 on the back of the wave of industrial militancy which culminated in the miners ' strike of that year . |
47 | She was a quietly-spoken old lady who had been retired for seven years . |
48 | On these occasions those temporary workers recruited were ex-employees — those who had been dismissed in recent downturns and who had been unable to find a new job . |
49 | In June Hubert Ingraham , another former minister who had been dismissed in 1984 [ ibid. ] , was elected leader of the opposition Free National Movement ( FNM ) after the death on May 9 , 1990 , of its former leader Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield [ for whom see also p. 35373 ] . |
50 | One of the four who died was Kevin O'Donnell , who had been acquitted in 1991 in London on gun-running charges . |
51 | A former Armed Forces Minister , Maj. Umaru Djalo , who had served under President Luis de Almeida Cabral , who had been overthrown in 1980 by the coup bringing President Joao Bernardo Vieira to power , sought asylum at the same time . |
52 | Reports were coming from all over the country of different children who had been adopted by this kindly old lady . |
53 | It emerged much later that the first casualties had been on Thursday night — Konserven , one at Gleiwitz , six at Hohnlinden — who had been dressed as Polish soldiers and shot . |
54 | Examples include a member who was in partnership with an individual who had a criminal conviction for fraud ; four members who had been charged with criminal offences ; a bankrupt ; and a member who had been disqualified as a company director . |
55 | We lesser mortals who had been banished to such places as Wolverton were , however , less fortunate . |
56 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
57 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
58 | All of that would have been well known to the Ephesians , who had been converted from false gods who had no glory , to be followers of the one true God whose glory had been demonstrated in the splendour , the brightness and the beauty of the Saviour . |
59 | And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence . |
60 | The stone free interval was greater , however , in patients whose primary gall stones had been dissolved with chenodeyxholic acid ( median 14 : range 1–80 months ) than in those who had been treated with ursodeoxycholic acid ( median 4 : 1–24 ) . |