Example sentences of "[noun sg] who have be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ He looks like a character who has been chucked out of a Stephen Conroy painting for making too much noise ’ was one of the more polite comments by the critics . |
| 32 | you go or the person who has been hypnotized so that in the most extreme cases , as we know , the hypnotized person lapses into a kind of trance , whether a kind of sleeping automaton with no ego and their decisions are now being made for them by the hypnotist who tells them what do to and they , they act as a kind of a , a puppet as if their ego ha has been turned off al al al altogether and clearly there 's a parallel here with what Freud 's going on in the group . |
| 33 | He was John Brown , a miner who had been entombed alone for 23 days . |
| 34 | There was a knock on the door , and when I said " Come in " the middle-aged woman who 'd been treated so rudely by Lennis in the morning appeared hesitantly . |
| 35 | Later , much later , when she had occasion to meet a policeman 's wife , a woman who had been beaten up by her husband for taking a lover on the nights he was on duty , the wife said to her , ‘ Well , you ought to understand . |
| 36 | Yeah , she 's great — she has split up from her husband and works for her and the kids , a really independent woman who 's been messed around by men and is now looking after herself . |
| 37 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 38 | It is the optimists who did not react quickly enough to the downturn who have been caught out . |
| 39 | But while Pearce might be irreplaceable for Forest , United have learnt to live without Robson , whose likely replacement at Wembley is Neil Webb , the former Forest midfielder who has been left out of United 's last three games . |
| 40 | In one hotel they found a man who had been mugged twice , young people who had been threatened with a knife and a newly-wed husband who had had his wedding ring pulled off his fingers by local thieves . |
| 41 | I once knew a man who had been brought up beside a Patrick 's Well in County Limerick . |
| 42 | The clothes he wore , the cut of his hair , even the subtly elegant watch on his wrist , everything about him seemed to indicate a man who had been brought up to take wealth for granted . |
| 43 | Thus , at Montrose , Boswell took a sharp likeness , in which we see the other side of the opinionated , often pompous , astonishingly patronising Johnson , the man with a statement on everything , the clumping , farting , knob-faced denouncer ; Johnson was also a thoughtful man of good manners and pensiveness , a quiet , reflective , astute man who had been knocked around . |
| 44 | When Marek saw the headstone for the first time no one in the neighbourhood whom he asked knew anything about the man who had been buried there . |
| 45 | Although David Cecil was and always had been a devout Christian , he became the favourite candidate of those who resented the ‘ clerical candidate ’ , the man who had been put up by Lewis , just because he was a Christian . |
| 46 | His eyes were hollow , dark rimmed with fatigue and worry ; his skin was unnaturally pale , the skin of a man who has been kept too long from the light . |
| 47 | What do I say when I visit an old Cockney lady with a fractured leg who has been sent home because the orthopaedic surgeons need her bed for the daily influx of trauma , but who ca n't stand unaided and who lives alone ? |
| 48 | ‘ Howard is a hard-liner who has been put in to bear down on us . |
| 49 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 50 | When he went up to Cambridge he met another American who 'd been brought up in England , whose father was a journalist in the London bureau of the Washington Post , and he 'd had a thing about graveyards , too . |
| 51 | It will be much easier to reactivate the application of an unsuccessful candidate who has been let down gently . |
| 52 | Despite this the symptom of urgency is invariably improved and all 81 patients with ulcerative colitis who have been followed up for more than six months state that they can defer defaecation for more than two hours . |
| 53 | He was one-eyed with a great purple birthmark across his face ; he must be the same fellow who had been closeted so secretly with Irvine at the Sea Barque in Leicester . |
| 54 | George Dinsdale , stationed at Redcar , said the man , known only as a Mr Kirwan of Lumley Street , Redcar , jumped into the water near a slipway to rescue a youth who had been dragged in by a huge wave . |
| 55 | Today we may find his attitude most approachable when it is oblique , as it is in Mr Midshipman Easy , when the sense and reason behind naval rules and regulations are stated through the absurd mistakes , misconceptions and malfeasances of a youth who has been brought up to believe in the ideal of total equality . |
| 56 | For most of the time he shifted about from one foot to the other , more like a naughty schoolboy who has been hauled up in front of the head master than a genie rubbed out of a bottle . |
| 57 | An individual who has been brought up in the abstractions of education and capital , and who is certain of obtaining daily necessities , cultivates a distance from these needs , and affects a taste based in the respect and desire for the abstract , distanced and formal . |
| 58 | From this viewpoint , the criminal is an individual who has been labelled so by society , and this labelling does not apply to all individuals who break laws . |
| 59 | She was a veteran nymphette who had been kicked out of Shangri-la for seducing the monks . |
| 60 | We 've got Apex who 've been brought in to bring in the new the white collar worker unions to form another concept of trade unionism . |