Example sentences of "who [verb] be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who agreed were given an envelope in which to seal their completed questionnaire before returning it to the member of staff . |
| 2 | A Sheriff Officer is a person in private practice who has been appointed an officer of the court but is not a court employee . |
| 3 | He is joined by Peter Fairbairn , 54 , who has been appointed an external information technology consultant . |
| 4 | He is pressing for an early meeting with Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd , who has been sent a copy of the survey . |
| 5 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
| 6 | Martyn Moxon , who has been granted a benefit in 1993 by Yorkshire , recently received the Society 's ‘ Cricketer of the Year ’ Award for 1991 . |
| 7 | A registered or occasional student who has been granted an intermission in his studies or leave of absence from his studies shall not be required to enrol for the period of intermission or leave . |
| 8 | This will include : ( i ) the mother ; ( ii ) the father if he was married to the mother when the child was born ; ( iii ) the father , if he was not married to the child 's mother when the child was born but he has since married her or now has a residence order , a court order which gives him parental responsibility or a formal parental responsibility agreement made with the mother in accordance with s4(2) of the Act ; ( iv ) a guardian of the child which in this context means a testamentary guardian appointed in accordance with s5 of the Act ; ( v ) anyone who holds a custody or residence order relating to the child ; ( vi ) a local authority which has a care order in respect of the child ; ( vii ) anyone who has been granted an emergency protection order ; ( viii ) in the case of an adopted child , the adopters in place of the natural parents . |
| 9 | One of the people who has been developing an information-processing model intended to describe how production of spoken sentences is achieved is Garrett ( 1975 , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | Lamy , who has been seeking a drive in Formula One for this year 's Portuguese Grand Prix at Estroil next month , tested for Lotus at Silverstone last week . |
| 11 | Another point : the intruder who has been denied a quick escape route is unlikely to remain in the house for very long ( it 's one of the first things he sizes up after breaking in ) . |
| 12 | Fletcher , who has been given a five-year contract , captained England in seven of his 59 Tests , in which he scored 3272 runs ( 39,90 ) , with seven centuries . |
| 13 | Mike , who has been given a car and a house by his new employers , has yet to see his new surroundings , and it will certainly be a journey into the unknown . |
| 14 | The gesture was made by Bill Tennant , head of VVL , to Jones , who has been given an extra week by officials at Lancaster Gate to decide whether to appeal against his punishment . |
| 15 | Their debut single , ‘ Do n't Fight The Feeling ’ on Bump ‘ N ’ Hustle Music , features the abrasive soul vocals of Janette Sewell , who has been causing a buzz via a recent Joey Negro project and a solo outing on the ‘ Totally Wired 8 ’ compilation . |
| 16 | In Now Voyager he played the family man caught up in a shipboard romance with a repressed spinster , Bette Davis , who has been prescribed a transatlantic cruise by her psychiatrist . |
| 17 | Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 19 | She wore a faintly sly and greedy look , like a child who has been promised a rather disreputable treat if it 's good . |
| 20 | Supposedly grown-up people that believe human beings can not practise safe sex and contraception , or that it is right to deny a 14-year-old girl who has been raped an abortion because it would be morally wrong in the eyes of God , are not living in the real world . |
| 21 | Having ensured that a sterile first half ended goalless by making a tremendous reaction save to thwart Olney , Grobbelaar , who has been walking a selection tightrope all season , then allowed a far from ferocious low shot by Daley at the end of a thrilling 50-yard burst to slip under him and into the net . |
| 22 | The show ( from 3 December until 2 January ) is accompanied by a colour catalogue with an essay by Dan Cameron , a New York critic who has been keeping an eagle eye on the Spanish scene for some years . |
| 23 | One of the most notable is supermodel Cindy Crawford who has been hailed a ‘ global role model ’ for women . |
| 24 | I am a senior enrolled nurse who wants to hear from any enrolled or senior enrolled nurse who has been awarded a staff nurse grade F , or above , in 1988 , or subsequently through the grading appeals system . |
| 25 | This must have given him great satisfaction for he used to refer to himself " as one who has been admitted a member of the great family of the deaf " , and described this family as " my people " . |
| 26 | By contrast , a person who has been handed a single leaflet in the street is clearly outside the ambit of the section . |
| 27 | He did tell Theo that the sketch was suggested to him by a poem of Thomas Hood 's relating the story of a conscience-stricken rich lady who has been to buy a dress and sees an emaciated , consumptive seamstress in a back room of the shop . |
| 28 | But I sat in yesterday afternoon and I felt sorry for the man 's daughter who 'd been given a hymn the service . |
| 29 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 30 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |