Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is joined by Peter Fairbairn , 54 , who has been appointed an external information technology consultant . |
| 2 | And leading the way on the one-mile hike through the park was a Belfast man who has been helping the Ulster-led Everest expedition walk to the top of the world . |
| 3 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
| 4 | Several grand viziers entered the Sultan 's service via the devşirme , including Ibrahim , the Greek who served Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523 to 1536 ; the Macedonian Koçu Bey , adviser to Murad IV in the seventeenth century , who has been called the Turkish Montesquieu ; and Mehmed Sokolović ( Sokollu ) , the Bosnian who held the post from 1564 to 1579 , serving Suleiman , Selim II and Murad III . |
| 5 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 7 | One of the people who has been developing an information-processing model intended to describe how production of spoken sentences is achieved is Garrett ( 1975 , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 8 | Another point : the intruder who has been denied a quick escape route is unlikely to remain in the house for very long ( it 's one of the first things he sizes up after breaking in ) . |
| 9 | Fletcher , who has been given a five-year contract , captained England in seven of his 59 Tests , in which he scored 3272 runs ( 39,90 ) , with seven centuries . |
| 10 | The gesture was made by Bill Tennant , head of VVL , to Jones , who has been given an extra week by officials at Lancaster Gate to decide whether to appeal against his punishment . |
| 11 | The relative or person who has been given the medical certificate by the doctor must see the Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district where the death occurred , in order that the death may be registered . |
| 12 | In Now Voyager he played the family man caught up in a shipboard romance with a repressed spinster , Bette Davis , who has been prescribed a transatlantic cruise by her psychiatrist . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 14 | Convincing evidence that animals actually do operate this way comes from James Serpell of the University of Cambridge ( Animal Behaviour , vol 30 , p 1244 ) , who has been studying the aggressive behaviour of nine species of tropical parrots of the genus Trichoglossus . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's a curiously authoritative figure , ’ says Tom Nairn , the political philosopher who has been pondering the various strains of British nationalism for years . |
| 16 | By contrast , a person who has been handed a single leaflet in the street is clearly outside the ambit of the section . |
| 17 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 18 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 19 | A tangle of twisted metal is all that remains of the giant oil tank that fuelled the power station at the edge of the Bulmers factory site.It 's believed the man who died was welding a measuring gauge on top of the tank when it exploded , scattering debris over a wide area.The man died before he reached hospital.After the first explosion , there were further blasts creating a pall of smoke over Hereford.Bulmers Director Terry Watts was in an office nearby : |
| 20 | Legal moves have begun to evict thousands of travellers who 've been holding an illegal festival at a beauty spot for the past five days . |
| 21 | The final southbound working to run over the section from Dunford to Sheffield consisted of class 20 No. 20004 and a brake conveying a party of contractors who had been inspecting the remaining part of the route west of Penistone . |
| 22 | A young French assistant , who had been holding the white horse on which Duclos ranged the plantation each day , stepped forward at a signal from him and steadied the animal while he mounted . |
| 23 | At this point the young man , who had been reading a folded newspaper , looked up and said in a slightly truculent voice , ‘ Excuse me , madam , but that 's my pudding you 're about to eat . ’ |
| 24 | In the north midlands , the dominant figure in the 1460s had been the king 's brother Clarence , who had been granted the important duchy of Lancaster estates in the region centred on the honour of Tutbury ( Staffs . ) . |
| 25 | In the north midlands , the dominant figure in the 1460s had been the king 's brother Clarence , who had been granted the important duchy of Lancaster estates in the region centred on the honour of Tutbury ( Staffs . ) . |
| 26 | On the brink of suicide himself when imprisoned for writing to a friend who had been called a counter-revolutionary , Liang Heng wonders , ‘ Why should two good people like my parents be forced to divorce each other ? |
| 27 | The Harp , who had been chasing a fifth consecutive Division One title , were also thrown out of the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup and this decision was upheld by the Coast FA . |
| 28 | Continued tensions led in January 1989 to the establishment of a ‘ special form of administration ’ , in effect direct rule from Moscow , headed by Arkadii Vol'sky , who had been appointed the previous summer to represent the central government in the contested region . |
| 29 | A large woman of formidable appearance , who had been passing the open door of the coffee lounge and whose attention had been caught by Amaranth 's evident distress , came over to them . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the warden 's cat , who had been enjoying a light snack in the dustbin , saw Emily , saw the milk , and that is all I can remember , it happened so quickly . |