Example sentences of "who have [been] so [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atkinson said : ‘ It 's a blow to lose someone like Shaun , who has been so impressive for us . ’ |
| 2 | And it is their Derrida , the nihilist or joker , who has been so influential in literature departments . |
| 3 | ‘ She is unable to give an interview to someone who has been so rude to her , ’ he told Groom curtly , but agreed to furnish her himself with the few facts she needed . |
| 4 | I hope that this excellent measure will receive not only the assent of the House but the strong support of everyone who has been so concerned about this issue during 1991 . |
| 5 | In our day and age , can you think of someone who has been so full of the Spirit that he 's had the courage to preach even when his own life was at stake ? |
| 6 | The second is that the name of the person who has been so generous to you must remain a secret , until that person chooses to tell you . |
| 7 | In addition the fascists threatened ‘ to oppose Vyvyan Adams , the Tory MP for West Leeds , who has been so active in the House of Commons in asking questions re the Fascists . ’ |
| 8 | Didi , who 'd been so pleasant to her face and so vitriolic behind her back . |
| 9 | He , who had been so close to the innermost of inner circles since succeeding Hankey in 1938 , was receiving only fragmentary details of the inner Cabinet 's war-planning , despite having to advise the Chancellor on the financial implications . |
| 10 | Now , many people as they retrieved their fingers from the handshake were likely to tell you that their husband had just fathered an illegitimate child and ask your advice on how to proceed , or offer to give you the telephone number of their analyst/acupuncturist/homeopath/hypnotist who had been so helpful over their drink problem . |
| 11 | I also wished to pay my respects to the Curator of the Natural History Museum , the late Finnur Gudmundsson , who had been so helpful in planning the trip . |
| 12 | As a treat for her large staff , who had been so assiduous over the period of moving in , Amy encouraged them to go . |
| 13 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 14 | Her husband , who had been so attentive in the sunshine , was back on home territory , in the place he loved best on earth , surrounded by the people and the activities he loved most . |
| 15 | The plump girl , who had been so full of life , was killed in the same way as the earlier victims . |
| 16 | Helen , who had been so calm during the night , was now cold and shaking with delayed shock , and Anne told her how glad she had been of her company . |
| 17 | From Thomas Jones , who had been so frightened by Thelwall 's oratory , stories concerning the ‘ emigrant family ’ at Alfoxden passed first to Charles Mogg — a former servant at the house — and then to a cook in the household of Dr Daniel Lysons of Bath . |
| 18 | Many of the voters there were the council-house tenants/potential home buyers who had been so important to Thatcher 's electoral successes in southern England . |
| 19 | She turned her face to the light , and silently , incoherently , not knowing which deity she addressed , she thanked the gods , who had been so kind to her , and to the husband she loved so much . |
| 20 | Diana felt a debt of gratitude to the woman who had been so kind to her during that first traumatic public engagement eighteen months before as well as an empathy with someone who , like her , had come into the royal world from the outside . |
| 21 | A reception was held at Handley Farm during which Nahum made an emotional speech , thanking everyone who had been so kind to him and Anna during their time among the ‘ gorgios ’ of Swinbrook . |
| 22 | Warm thanks are due to my many colleagues within the information industry and to those organisations who have been so helpful in providing guidance , views , information and explanation . |
| 23 | Yet the anti-Subirachs lobby also includes Catholic traditionalists who have been so shocked by his naked Christ that they hold monthly prayer vigils . |
| 24 | Now Blackburn pushing forward , sets away inside the penalty area but who 's been so convincing in the Shrewsbury goal tonight and made some important contributions , makes another one there , so alert , racing off the line to get there before could get a snip . |