Example sentences of "who have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 All that is true , but I do not say that young people who have been deprived in that way should go out and steal cars .
2 But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due .
3 Recently there has been a certain amount of paranoia from agents who have been tied to short-term agreements , and then have lost a band to the highest bidder just as the act is becoming successful .
4 Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness .
5 She is certainly not one of those who have been living on mung beans for as long as they can remember .
6 This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system .
7 A number of his fellow Cheshires who have been serving in war-torn Bosnia were also honoured for their gallantry .
8 One Canadian official told New Scientist that scientists from the US have been replaced by ‘ people with less relevant experience , and some who have been acting as political commissars ’ .
9 The Red Cross primarily visits those inmates who are former National Guardsmen or who have been sentenced for counter-revolutionary activity .
10 I should also like to extend our sympathy to the relatives and friends of all those who have been killed in recent incidents in Northern Ireland .
11 A unique opportunity to study lateral specialization of function in the human brain is provided by those patients who have been treated by left or right hemispherectomy for malignant tumour or for convulsions associated with infantile hemiplegia .
12 Similarly , there were 10 patients with longstanding acquired megacolon and megarectum with normal ileal function and acceptable anal sphincter activity who have been treated by restorative proctocolectomy .
13 When the mistake was discovered , they tried to put all the blame onto the innocent parties — the importers and the farmers — who have been landed with these cattle .
14 He said the Government will change the law so courts can impose a secure training order on 12 to 15-year-olds who have been convicted of three imprisonable crimes and who can not be dealt with in the community .
15 This work demonstrates that there are considerable grounds for optimism regarding the performance of students with non-standard entry qualifications who have been prepared for higher education through special Access Courses .
16 Three adults who have been prepared by this group will be received into the Church at the Easter Vigil .
17 Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ?
18 Vanguard ( October 1987 ) complained of ‘ a corrupt and Zionist dominated media ’ , thereby repeating the conspiracy theorists ' argument against ordinary people who have been blinded by Jewish opinion-makers .
19 In this study we have assessed renal function in a group of patients who have been maintained on delayed release mesalazine from six months to over six years .
20 Those who have been filled with all the previous beatitudes of Christ now overflow in mercy to those around them .
21 But like many articulate and intelligent people , even those trained to search out the hidden structures of literature , even those who have been moved by great art or fascinated by the most remote biographical details from the lives of writers ( such as the information that Ibsen on occasion wrote with a scorpion in a jar on his desk ) , he nonetheless had little or no access to the springs of his own emotions .
22 They are among eight Kurds facing imminent deportation who have been moved from Haslar detention centre , near Gosport , to Winchester prison .
23 He has studied the offspring of women with a history of schizophrenia who have been adopted by non-schizophrenic mothers .
24 For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house .
25 While there are no completely accurate figures , the two national disability surveys carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) in the late 1960s and 1980s indicate that there are alive today just under 100,000 people aged 50 or older who have been disabled for 20 or more years , and that around another 200,000 will reach this age within the next 10 to 20 years ( Harris , 1971 ; Martin et al . ,
26 A great remedy in croup for sensitive children who have been exposed to cold air or dry cold winds and have come down with croup the following morning ( see also Aconite and Spongia particularly ) ; worse ( < ) morning and evening .
27 This clinic caters for children who have been integrated into mainstream kindergartens .
28 Children who have been integrated into mainstream schools can return at any time for help and are called back at six-monthly intervals for checks .
29 There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years .
30 With the exception of the indigenous groups of Plantation America and some small groups who have been evangelised by Protestant missionaries , Latin Americans are Roman Catholic .
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