Example sentences of "who has [been] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | England manager Graham Taylor was at the game but Spurs striker Teddy Sheringham , who has been touted as a possible candidate for a World Cup place against Poland , did little to enhance his chances . |
| 2 | England manager Graham Taylor was at the game but Spurs striker Teddy Sheringham , who has been touted as a possible candidate for a World Cup place against Poland , did little to enhance his chances . |
| 3 | The monster Calibos , a half-divine man who has been deformed as a punishment by the gods but retains the power of speech and other human characteristics including a curiously ineffectual lust for the pretty Andromeda ( Judy Bowker ) is doubly cast as a Dynarama ( or Dynamation , ie stop-motion ) model and as an actor ( Neil McCarthy ) , a decision not only unprecedented but unwise . |
| 4 | The situation was complicated by Minton 's affection for and affinity with Henrietta who has been compared with a Suffragette in her absolute determination to defeat the pressures of convention . |
| 5 | If a vehicle examiner who has been authorised by a chief constable examines the brakes his evidence will show a more detailed inspection and will probably name the ‘ part ’ concerned . |
| 6 | The novel proposes a man who has been swallowed by a theory of suicide . |
| 7 | It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 8 | The words must be uttered by someone with the necessary authority , in a country in which there is a death penalty , to a person who has been convicted of a particular crime ; they must be spoken , not written , at the right time ( at the end of a trial ) and in the right place ( in court ) . |
| 9 | It is accepted that a list MdB who has been defeated in a constituency may make his services available there , and he is as likely as the constituency 's own MdB to receive requests for assistance . |
| 10 | Lucky Ebenezer , 74 , and his 75-year-old wife , who has been fitted with a heart pacemaker , will now be taking life much easier at their home in Aberystwyth , west Wales . |
| 11 | AN EX-SERGEANT who has been confined to a wheelchair for more than a year was exercising in a hospital gym this weekend after a life-saving heart transplant operation . |
| 12 | Who ‘ A ’ is , remains a mystery , but she is a creature of clearly inspirational beauty who has been captured with a fluidity of drawing and subtlety of palette that would be envied by the greatest masters of the French Impressionist School . |
| 13 | But the ever-smiling Adams , who has been dogged by a catalogue of injuries over the past two years , was in no mood to feel sorry for himself at Party Politics ' home-coming , attended by more than 500 people in Upper Lambourn yesterday . |
| 14 | Dion Dublin , who has been linked with a number of top clubs , put Cambridge ahead after 53 minutes with his 17th goal of the season . |
| 15 | The same applies to anyone , tall or short , who has been dieting for a lengthy period already , and generally to those who are only a few pounds overweight . |
| 16 | The story , basically , is about an aged emperor who divides his kingdom equally between his elder , nasty , daughter , Princess Epine , and her young , innocent half-sister , Princess Rose , thus incurring the wrath of Epine and requiring Rose to journey through a twilit world to find , with the help of the court Fool , her Prince who has been transformed into a salamander . |
| 17 | No action was taken but Warrington general manager Ron Close said : ‘ We have looked closely at the video and it looks as if Jones might have deliberately kicked Bob , who has been told by a specialist that he came within an eighth of an inch of losing the eye . |
| 18 | A person who has been admitted as a solicitor and whose name is on the roll shall , if he would not otherwise be taken to be acting as a solicitor , be taken for the purposes of this Act to be so acting [ and therefore being required to hold a practising certificate ] if he is employed in connection with the provision of any legal services ( a ) by any person who is qualified to act as a solicitor ; ( b ) by any partnership at least one member of which is so qualified ; or ( c ) by a body recognised by the Council of the Law Society under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 ( incorporated practices ) . |
| 19 | It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint . |
| 20 | Returning to the jungle he finds he has to kill Lowery who has been stung by a Varga . |
| 21 | I 'd love to read something about Beefheart again — for me he is still just about the only person who has been described as a genius in your august organ who might just be one . |
| 22 | A not-so-good euphemism for someone who has tried to do him/herself in by hurling him/herself beneath a moving tube train , or someone who has been jostled from a congested platform on to the track , or some kicky kid indulging in Tube surfing-travelling outside the train and hanging on , and falling off , like John Koporo , age 11 , who in 1987 at Kilburn became the sport 's first victim . |
| 23 | POLICE are concerned about the safety of a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for a week . |
| 24 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 25 | Later , we read that ‘ nothing … shall prevent a constable delaying taking a person who has been arrested to a police station if the presence of that person elsewhere is necessary in order to carry out such investigations as it is reasonable to carry out immediately ’ . |
| 26 | my Lord I , I think it takes the view and probably not unreasonably that assuming good faith on the part of the disciplinary tribunal and assuming that there is er review by the courts , you will have complete objectivity and someone who has been excluded for a good reason , maybe fraud or something of that nature should not be competing in the first place , but he will not be excluded unreasonably and therefore if he was excluded unreasonably erm the fact of he 's exclusion could be anti competitive because it takes out of the market a player |