Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [adv] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The responsibility for the reviews rests with the review officer who , under section 40(1) ( b ) , must be an officer of at least rank of inspector and who has not been directly involved in the investigation . |
| 2 | then introduced our Sports Council Liaison Officer who has always been most helpful and had volunteered to come along and present their point of view . |
| 3 | A lifelong Conservative who has always been politically active , and who has fought this seat in the last two local elections , Margaret lives in Headington Ward , and understands , and cares about the local issues . |
| 4 | ‘ You would be proud to have him as your son , ’ said Dalglish who has never been easily impressed . |
| 5 | Debbie hesitated , wondering how she could refuse somebody who had just been so helpful ; but she did . |
| 6 | And Pete , who had n't been entirely unaware of some of the paths that such a newly-founded relationship might follow , suddenly found himself shifting into back-off mode . |
| 7 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 8 | As the news of the quarrel between the Old King 's sons spread , those who had been defeated last year took fresh courage , while others like Geoffrey of Lusignan , who had previously been too cautious to join the revolt , now decided that their moment had come . |
| 9 | Many strikes were headed by groups of workers who had previously been fairly quiescent . |
| 10 | Its chairman was John Grierson who had never been particularly interested in responding to the requirements of the commercial market-place , and production control was in the hands of John Baxter , a onetime director whose films had been of the prosaic but worthy variety . |
| 11 | Poor , silly Ma Norris , who had never been quite right since her three sons were killed on the Somme in the last war . |
| 12 | Sitting in the audience was Diana 's father , Earl Spencer , who had always been very proud of his daughter , and only too happy to tell the world so . |
| 13 | She , Aurora Jennings Blake , who had always been quite content in her own company , who indeed had positively longed for solitude on occasions , was lonely . |
| 14 | For Jean-Claude , who had always been abjectly poor , there seemed no way of escaping a hand-to-mouth existence by his own efforts : only a miracle could effect it . |
| 15 | Esther , who had always been deeply bored with Delia and had no wish whatsoever to keep in touch with her , sat quietly in the smooth , upholstered , comfortable , large toffee-brown Volvo , which smelled of dog . |
| 16 | He and Hunt — who had always been deeply interested in driver safety — worked in excellent cooperation . |
| 17 | She lay propped up in pain and wondered when it was she had begun to loathe her body — she who had always been so proud of her figure and liked to pirouette in front of the glass after stepping from her clothes , admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs , the trim concavity of her belly , the neatness of her breasts , her skin with the sculptured texture of marble , her neck slender as the stem of a wineglass , and the bound-up hair in which fire lurked and leaped . |
| 18 | Lucinda , who had always been so obedient , speaking to her mother as if good manners had gone out of fashion ? |
| 19 | No more letters for many a year now from Miss Mitford , none from Miss Trepsack , none from Mrs Jameson , who had always been so kind to her . |
| 20 | She had realized that she , who had always been so outgoing as a young singer , had been verging on the brink of obsession with her own failures , her own abilities or lack of them , with Gesner and his personal vendetta . |
| 21 | Louise Dunstaple , who had once been so fair , now looked like some consumptive Irish girl you might find walking the London streets ; in spite of the angry red spots on her pale brow she no longer wore the poultice of flour … the temptation had been too much for her and she had eaten it . |
| 22 | Adesangé , god of the volcano , was the lord of Sycorax 's rites , and Ariel , even in her mutism , was startled by the fervour of the woman who had once been so sceptical of others ' belief in her powers , who used to insist that all mysteries lay in the processes of nature and need only be observed and analysed and understood . |
| 23 | How much worse it must be for those who have n't been as fortunate as I in recovering from such trauma . |
| 24 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |
| 25 | Similarly , the family farmers , who have typically been very involved in and identified with the running of local village activities , have found themselves elbowed aside . |
| 26 | ‘ Silly old bugger , ’ she says suddenly , as Fairfax , in the way of elderly men who have once been very athletic , hobbles and skips to the lavatory , trying to shake the easily accumulated stiffness out of his limbs , as though by this display of sprightliness he can somehow leap out of the tethers fi-xing him to the earth . |
| 27 | Some elderly people who have always been very flexible like being ‘ popped in on ’ without prior warning , but most people as they grow older much prefer all the events in their lives to be regular and predictable . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's a guy here who 's only been down three days . |