Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] have be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I have practised yoga for many years , but then I met a Jesuit priest who had been sent to the Far East by the Catholic Church to experience the Buddhist way and see how it might relate to Catholic worship . |
| 2 | All patients from that practice who have been admitted to any department of Bassetlaw Hospital ( except the units of psychiatry and paediatrics , which have their own similar systems ) have been assessed on admission for their likely needs on discharge . |
| 3 | With two daughters of her own , Greta expanded her family by taking in the son of a German socialist who had been sent to a concentration camp , and a Viennese boy who adopted her name by deed poll . |
| 4 | It came from Tony Morrell , the Hartlepool-based athlete who has been preferred to Cram in the 1500 metres and whose fitness had been queried in some quarters . |
| 5 | If Judge Galpin 's interpretation of the Act and the Rules is correct , it drives a coach and horses straight through an enormously important area of child protection within family relationships ; that is to say , the ability to prevent an abduction and the ability to prevent the possibility of an abduction , or to restore a child who has been abducted to the home where the child should be , unless or until the 21 days service or other abbreviated service has been effected , by which time it may be in certain cases far too late for the welfare of the child . |
| 6 | The other girl who had been talking to Blake walked over to the Doctor . |
| 7 | Philip Jones Griffiths , a Magnum photographer who has been going to Vietnam for 23 years , say , s ‘ We used to joke that you can take the photographer out of Vietnam but not Vietnam out of the photographer ’ . |
| 8 | When the dust settled yesterday Michael Knighton , a thwarted professional footballer who has been elected to the Manchester United board , spoke bitterly of the vilification he claims to have endured since moving in on the club and Martin Edwards , the chief executive . |
| 9 | On Oct. 7 the Iranian government released Jon Pattis , 54 , an engineer who had been sentenced to 10 years on spying charges in 1987 . |
| 10 | As both hon. Members will have in mind , European Community monitors are now in place who have been exposed to a high degree of personal risk . |
| 11 | I am not in the business of calibrating the relative evil of the atrocities carried out by the IRA , but I am conscious that the events that we have just witnessed come in the train of the attack on the remembrance day ceremony in Enniskillen four years ago , when 13 civilians were killed , and of the proxy bomb a year ago , which killed a civilian who had been tied to the driver 's seat of his vehicle . |
| 12 | And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence . |
| 13 | ‘ First : get somebody to check out the young strokeplayer and the promising offspinner who have been recommended to members of your committee . |
| 14 | Annie McCafferty was a very reliable person who had been recommended to Carrie by the local midwife . |
| 15 | Let it get gamey and he 's erm Chinese assistant the person who has been assigned to sort of look after him and do his do his translating and things like that took it down and buried it cause they did n't eat rotten meat they did |
| 16 | ‘ Apparently it is virtually unknown for a Person who has been murdered to be found with closed eyes . ’ |
| 17 | Later , we read that ‘ nothing … shall prevent a constable delaying taking a person who has been arrested to a police station if the presence of that person elsewhere is necessary in order to carry out such investigations as it is reasonable to carry out immediately ’ . |
| 18 | He roamed around like a visitor who 's been left to his own devices , curious and oddly furtive , opening drawers , reading a letter or two , shuffling through a deck of photographs . |
| 19 | AN EX-SERGEANT who has been confined to a wheelchair for more than a year was exercising in a hospital gym this weekend after a life-saving heart transplant operation . |
| 20 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |
| 21 | But to my mind the boy could begin by showing more respect altogether to people like your father who have been listening to what the League says about the problems of the land and the bosses and the conditions of the men and women who work on it . |
| 22 | Shit all over the floor and the walls , " said a twenty-one-year-old machinist who 'd been banished to Coventry 's notorious Woodend estate . |
| 23 | One lady of ill repute who had been directed to Wolverton Works , was , after training , placed in the Fitting and Machine Shop , but after further training on various machines , was found to be unsatisfactory . |
| 24 | Somehow I ca n't imagine a Park Avenue matron shelling out $200,000 to hang this startling pre-connubial portrait on her living-room wall — no matter that the work is executed by an artist who has been likened to Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol and called the genius of his generation . |
| 25 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 26 | The food service design consultant , however , is a professional man who has been trained to be a designer after having gained a varied experience in the food service industry . |
| 27 | Tensions were raised on Jan. 26 when Achmet Sadiq , a leader of the Moslem minority who had been elected to Parliament in June 1989 but disqualified from the November election on procedural grounds , and another Moslem parliamentary candidate were found guilty of " inciting violence and dissension " and using the word " Turkish " in their campaign manifestos . |
| 28 | Pahadia , a Congress ( I ) general secretary who had been appointed to the governorship in February 1989 , was succeeded on Jan. 31 , 1990 , by Yunus Saleem . |
| 29 | There was the wife of a Communist who had been stabbed to death in Oslo . |
| 30 | Both the latter films were made by Walter Booth for Charles Urban , an American who had been sent to Britain in order to look after Edison 's interests , then set up on his own as a distributor and exporter of French and American films . |