Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [verb] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any soldier who has ever been in a war , ’ he said at the hearings , ‘ truly hopes he will never see one again . ’ |
| 2 | The following table shows where a sample of school-leavers who had either been on a government Youth Opportunities Scheme ( YOPS ) or been unemployed for six weeks by the beginning of October 1978 had ended up by April 1979 . |
| 3 | Rebel shareholders want to wrest control from a handful of family dynasties who 've traditionally been in charge . |
| 4 | To take this initiative and extend it to include a range of interests which they can use , whether or not they are employed in the future , might help them to be on a more equal footing with their peers who have not been in public care . |
| 5 | Obviously , not all elderly parents who live alone are in need of a great deal of assistance : they just like to know that it would be available if they wanted it . |
| 6 | But I incline to think that our grandfathers and grandmothers were in the right of it , and that no one can claim to understand Wordsworth who has not been to Hawkshead and Ambleside . |
| 7 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 8 | The Kirkwoods had to sell their horses , had to endure the slow oncoming tread of gentility in all its shabbiness , to watch the encroaching , ever-drawing-near of the Irish natives who had long been in the tenure and service of the Great House , and now never would be again . |
| 9 | The court held that , despite its literal width , the expression did not embrace two Chileans resident in Chile who had never been to England , although they were partners with persons in England carrying on a business here . |
| 10 | It is good work , this , Angus , it is bringing the thing home to plenty folk who have only been in it for the furore so far , for the chance to squeeze their girls in the crowd and all that kind of thing . |
| 11 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |
| 12 | I suddenly knew I had either to behave like a shocked girl who had still been at school that time the year before ; or like an adult . |
| 13 | West Germans who had not been to the East had no difficulty in believing them . |
| 14 | Equally , there are people in Windsor who 've never been to Oxford . |
| 15 | Both were initiated by Billy , a 16-year-old with a recently acquired impairment who had only been with the group for a year . |
| 16 | Although there are particular occupational groups who have always been at risk , such as sewer workers , miners , farm workers and slaughterhouse workers , the working population and residents of the new London Dockland system could also be at risk . |
| 17 | In most cases they did not go far or , if they did , the paths from their region to the city had been well-trodden by kinsmen and neighbours , like the hawkers and seasonal building workers who had long been in the habit of coming up to Paris from central France , whose numbers grew with the constructional work of Paris until , after 1870 , they turned from seasonal into permanent migrants . |
| 18 | I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before . |
| 19 | He noted condescendingly in his diary that the wily Verdeţ was ‘ a most agreeable person who had never been outside a Communist country in his life … |
| 20 | Some were novices who had never been on jungle training . |
| 21 | Nor was there a difference in the proportion of those committing suicide who had previously been in touch with the psychiatric service . |
| 22 | Litigants were likely to be neighbours who had long been on hostile terms . |
| 23 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 24 | Its reaching out to the people who 've not been through the processes that we 've been through and are still attached to ideas that are in essence racist , imperialist , sexist , heterosexist , and how we , nevertheless , draw those people into activity . |
| 25 | ‘ I think it does have something to do with drugs , because if you look at all those Spiral Tribe people who 've just been on E for so long , y'know ? |
| 26 | Talk to one or two people who 've recently been to business school . |
| 27 | People who have n't been on a council before . |
| 28 | Edward Gillespie , Managing Director of Cheltenham Racecourse , says we 're hoping to attract families and people who have not been to Cheltenham before . |
| 29 | This was particularly for people who have not been in hospital , but who may have exactly the same sort of needs as the people who are the focus of the particular project . |
| 30 | The ideal of an unrelated self is shown to be an ideal developed by people who have never been in the position of having primary responsibility for the care of children or the old . |