Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A splinter killed the commander of III Corps Field Artillery , brave old General Lotterer who had seldom been far from his forward guns during the first phase of the battle . |
| 2 | Sharon Harrington is a very active member of the group who has also been influential in the setting up of the Blyth Valley Self-Advocacy Group , which she now chairs . |
| 3 | Azzedine Laraki , who had been Prime Minister since 1986 , was replaced by Karim Lamrani , 72 , an economist with a background in business who had previously been Prime Minister in 1971 and 1983 . |
| 4 | Billy Kelly , the power workers ' leader who had then been instrumental in halting industry , promised that the electricity workers would again bring the province to a halt . |
| 5 | He pushed that from his mind , and his mind filled instead with the face of a lad on a bicycle who 'd once been friendly , and the face of another who did n't mind playing Find the Penny in the hut on the golf-course . |
| 6 | She was a scrawny flabby woman who had once been stout . |
| 7 | She was a small , dark woman who had once been petite . |
| 8 | Not ideal for a woman who has never been pregnant . |
| 9 | A woman who has never been pregnant is referred to as nulligravida ; a woman pregnant first time as primigravida , and at later pregnancies as multigravida ( see pregnancy order ) . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal has taken the matter a step further in Shomer v B&R Residential Lettings Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 Industrial Relations Legal Information Bulletin 2 , by holding that in making the comparison with a hypothetical sick man , all relevant circumstances must be taken into account so that where , as in this case , there had been misconduct by the pregnant woman , the correct comparison was with a sick man who had also been guilty of misconduct . |
| 11 | The man who had never been safe became , upon leaving her , safe to her . |
| 12 | ‘ I was a fit and healthy young man who had always been active . |
| 13 | Why did one of them look like a man who had supposedly been dead for over two hundred years ? |
| 14 | A man who 's never been afraid to stick his head in among the flying boots , Moran 's medical records are thicker — and gorier — than a short horror novel . |
| 15 | He knew the pathologist , a woman doctor who had once been young but found her work was ageing her fast . |
| 16 | Edward recalls this attitude clearly among the Swindon-Welsh cronies of his paternal grandmother : ‘ They used to remark how well my father was doing , my grandfather who had long been dead having only been a fitter ’ . |
| 17 | Everything about him betrayed a man of enormous emotional strength who had never been able to commit himself . |
| 18 | According to " diplomatic sources " ( as cited in The Independent of April 4 ) , apart from handing over the Lockerbie subjects , Libya was being asked by Petrovsky to ( i ) provide the UK government with details of its contacts with the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) ; ( ii ) make a written renunciation of " terrorism " ; ( iii ) close five training camps used by the Palestinian Abu Nidal and other groups ; and ( iv ) extradite an individual who had allegedly been involved in the 1988 attack on the Greek cruise ship City of Poros . |
| 19 | Those arrested in May also included three members of the DC 's national executive ; Sergio Radaelli , the PSI nominee to Cariplo , Milan 's biggest savings bank ; Massimo Ferlini , a PDS member who had previously been public works commissioner for Milan ; and prominent industrialists such as Roberto Schellino , a former technical director of Cogefar-Impresit ( Italy 's leading construction company , which had recently been bought by the motor company Fiat ) and Mario San Vittore Lodigiani , vice-president of the Lodigiani construction company . |
| 20 | They stood facing each other in the hall , mother and son who had never been close , locked in the eternal triangle . |