Example sentences of "who have [be] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The veteran leaders of both of the country 's main parties , who had been personal political rivals since the 1960s , resigned their party posts during February-March . |
| 2 | At the time , advertising was full of the best and the brightest Oxbridge type , not someone coming from Sussex who had been left-wing all of his life , like Philip . ’ |
| 3 | Tonbridge had a much closer call in the semi-final , the crucial third point coming against Stowe at the fourth extra hole from Martin Yates and Simon Ellis , former Cambridge captain , who had been dormy three down . |
| 4 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 5 | Secondly there 's some of the nurses who were n't present at the meeting three weeks ago who had been present three years ago . |
| 6 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 7 | Mr Fuller , who had been married three times , dealt in second-hand cars and dabbled in property and building . |
| 8 | At that moment Captain Robins , who had been busy shouting orders , hailed Reid . |
| 9 | The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates . |
| 10 | The Human Rights Commission assigned to Tadeusz Mazowiecki , who had been Polish Prime Minister in 1989-90 , the task of collecting all " available and credible " information on human rights in Yugoslavia and particularly in Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 11 | They came complete with miniature versions of themselves , flawlessly self-assured offspring called Ben , Simon , Emma and Kate , who had been breast-fed dry sherry and even drier wit . |
| 12 | Four pilot Workstart schemes will be started , offering financial assistance to employers who take on people who have been long-term unemployed . |
| 13 | I 've got five or six people here who have been water-skiing all their lives , and there 's no way any of them can do it . ’ |
| 14 | Of those who have been married thirty years or more , only 4.3 per cent divorce . |
| 15 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 16 | Second , while adults who have been blind all their lives report no visual dreams , and have no measurable rapid eye movements using EOG measures , they do have periods of low-voltage EEC with reduced muscle tone , consistent with REM sleep , " and if mechanical sensors are used to assess eye movement , it appears that their eyes do indeed wiggle about during these sleep phases . " |
| 17 | The Turkish slaughtermen offer the ubiquitous Turkish tea , a strong bitter brew known as chi , which invariably precedes all conversations , and the RAOC Master Butcher and his three British and two Belgian butchers , who have been busy all night cutting and jointing , now prepare themselves to assist in the slaughter of the cattle and sheep . |
| 18 | These are those who have been unemployed longest , and generally speaking are very young claimants with few skills , or older workers who , by the length of this unemployment , have been de-skilled . |