Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh pn] have be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chester , who was soon to accompany Coleridge on the journey into Europe , was yet another who had been drawn to him ‘ as flies are to honey ’ , and now trotted happily beside his two talkative companions , bow-legged and awestruck . |
| 2 | One oil analyst described investor sentiment as a ‘ two-way pull between the Americans who are trying to be optimistic and the British who have been selling to them ’ . |
| 3 | CASE STUDY 3.4 — MR HAMISH A social worker was called to see an old man in his seventies who had been taken to the police station for shoplifting a tin of corned beef . |
| 4 | The lords agreed to this proposal immediately , and established a new council which consisted of the Archbishop of Canterbury , William of Wykeham Bishop of Winchester , and eight of those who had been appointed to the advisory committee , including March , Arundel and Stafford . |
| 5 | Following in the footsteps of an earlier Departmental Committee , the Advisory Council painstakingly analysed the subsequent criminal careers of men who had been flogged , comparing them with those who had been subjected to other forms of penalty . |
| 6 | Moreover , 70 per cent of those who had been admitted to grammar schools left school at the minimum permitted age , namely fifteen . |
| 7 | However , this appointment was not approved by those who had been attracted to the movement by Houston 's populist oratory and Prosser was assaulted by two members of Shoreditch branch . |
| 8 | For the Gentiles to receive the word of God , at this point in history , was a truly extraordinary thing to happen in the eyes of those who had been used to years of prejudice against the Gentiles . |
| 9 | The memorandum represented a culmination of protracted negotiations over the status of Koreans , many of whom were descended from those who had been transported to Japan during the Pacific War for the purposes of forced labour . |
| 10 | If such changes were made , the board of directors would not consist of all previous partners , but only of those who have been elected to the executive committee or their current equivalents . |
| 11 | Those who have been exposed to the confirmatory techniques of linear regression may recognize the analogous measures . |
| 12 | In those who have been exposed to infection the entire penis is scrubbed with liquid soap and water for several minutes , and then washed with mercuric perchloride lotion 1:2000 . |
| 13 | Many of those who have been sent to prison rely on income support alone . |
| 14 | Contrary to what Tony Lumpkin believes , speaking for all those who have been subjected to the drudgery of learning it in school , grammar is not a constraining imposition but a liberating force : it frees us from a dependency on context and the limitations of a purely lexical categorization of reality . |
| 15 | It 's I who have been talking to her . |
| 16 | Police Registration for non EC students is £30 ( All Non Commonwealth students — other than EC Nationals — over the age of 16 who have been admitted to the UK for a period longer than 6 months are required to register with the police . ) |
| 17 | Thereafter each student passes before the Chancellor , who says ‘ I admit you ’ and at that moment the student changes from being a graduand ( one who has satisfied all the requirements for a degree ) to a graduate ( one who has been admitted to the degree and is entitled to the privileges thereof including use of the designatory letters , e.g. BA , MSc or PhD ) . |
| 18 | The two who had been talking to me went with the others back to their vehicle . |
| 19 | MAHA Sa'ad-ul-Din Banat , a 35-year-old Syrian national and mother of four who had been sentenced to 200 lashes by the Shari'a Court of Expedient Affairs in Riyadh on 10 March 1992 , received the lashes in four instalments in a one month period between April and May . |