Example sentences of "who [verb] been [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Haemaelaeinen , who has been a member of the Finnish central bank board and is credited with putting together a rescue package for commercial banks earlier this year , is highly regarded as a banker with integrity .
2 The visit of the Morris Men was arranged with the help of BNFL safety auditor David Pratt , of Risley , who has been a member for the past two years .
3 Mrs Murchie , 48 , who has been a member for nine years , believes everyone needs some kind of first aid training .
4 Mrs Falconer , who has been a member of staff since 1966 , is being removed as part of a staff restructuring programme .
5 Spike Milligan , the ex-Goon , who has been a friend for years , is a veteran anti-blood sports campaigner .
6 But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth .
7 Anyone who has been a parent or had much to do with family and children will have seen the discrepancies .
8 For a start , they do n't get paid , though they do receive a petrol allowance ; for another thing , it 's a bit like being in charge of a group of unruly children for a week , which , as anyone who has been a parent knows , means that there 's a lot of hard work involved and very little time for oneself .
9 Phil , from Paddington , West London , who has been a postman for 20 years , also wins £1,000 for his sorting office .
10 I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) …
11 After divorce from her first husband , she married Brian Youlden , who has been a tower of strength in these last sad days .
12 He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr Chris Patten , party chairman , and is a chartered accountant who has been a radio presenter .
13 The event provided the opportunity to have a close-up look at part of the farming enterprise of John Gittins who has been a pioneer in land reclamation and has also spearheaded the development of commercial crossbred sheep that have put millions of pounds in the pockets of fellow farmers .
14 The event provided the opportunity to have a close-up look at part of the farming enterprise of John Gittins who has been a pioneer in land reclamation and has also spearheaded the development of commercial crossbred sheep that have put millions of pounds in the pockets of fellow farmers .
15 If goods are sold at an auction to someone who has been a party to such an agreement to abstain from bidding , then the seller can rescind the contract .
16 I am one of the hon. Members who has started a business from scratch and who has been an employer of quite a lot of people whose jobs were created out of that initiative and enterprise .
17 In recent years it has been Ian Rush who has been the scourge of Everton but this time he turned provider to send the Israeli international through a dumbfounded Everton defence .
18 In addition , I am delighted to announce that our Director General will be Peter Rowe , who has been the Institute 's Head of External Affairs since 1986 .
19 The support of an advisory service should be available to teachers who have visually handicapped pupils in their classes in mainstream schools , but there is a particular need for this when implementing the recommendations for a pupil who has been the subject of a statement .
20 The child is the psychological state of the little person who has been the victim of his huge parents and their orders and inconsistencies .
21 Power is given in the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 to award compensation of up to £1000 to a client who has been the victim of shoddy work .
22 10.4 If , after returning to work , an employee who has been the victim of an incident of violence at work requests a transfer to other duties , such a request will be treated sympathetically .
23 Publicity is nothing new to the genial Ruscoe , however , who has been the focus of considerable interest since moving to his Orkney telefarm six years ago .
24 This surely applies to the best Romanian talent , Gheorge Hagi , who has been the target of several Italian clubs .
25 This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention .
26 Just imagine having a mummy who 'd been a Brownie Guider but who would n't let you be a Brownie !
27 Dishing out the programmes and shepherding VIPs was Janet McPherson who 'd been a champion racing driver , starting with Formula IV and graduating to Formula 1 and , on the way , beating all the men at Silverstone .
28 What he did n't say , until he published his autobiography last year , was that he was also a high school drop-out who 'd been a heroin addict , a splendid example of rising out of the rot of the inner city .
29 Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman .
30 He wanted to make sure he knew who 'd been the problem and would n't let me off the hook .
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