Example sentences of "[noun pl] who have been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The board are currently selecting a short list of candidates who have been introduced to us independently by Pro Ned Limited . |
| 2 | The Ethiopian army , the biggest in sub-Saharan Africa , consists largely of press-ganged young peasants or unemployed urban teenagers who have been drafted to the front after a few weeks ' training . |
| 3 | What Athens and Corinth had in common was perhaps the immigrant craftsmen who had been drawn to the cities in the salad days of their respective tyrannies . |
| 4 | Generally it is helpful to carry out these discussions with managers from sites who have been shown to be performing well ( at least above average ) in the relevant activity . |
| 5 | He drew up a map of Scotland based on where the men lived and found the excess of cases in children from rural areas who had been exposed to those men . |
| 6 | YORK IS preparing to repel a band of gypsies who have been travelling to the city for centuries . |
| 7 | Two more Kurdish deputies who had been elected to parliament as members of the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP ) resigned from the party on May 29 , to continue as independents . |
| 8 | His eldest son Theuderic ( 511 – 33 ) ruled from Rheims , and the sons who had been born to Chlothild , Chlodomer ( 511 – 24 ) , Childebert I ( 511 – 58 ) and Chlothar I ( 511 – 61 ) , ruled from Orléans , Paris and Soissons respectively . |
| 9 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 10 | The 50 unarmed UN military observers who had been sent to Mogadishu in July remained in the country , although on Aug. 6 they were reported still to be unable to leave their compound due problems of transport . |
| 11 | At the a.g.m. of the Booksellers Association in Torquay this week , president John Hitchin announced the names of the 12 booksellers who had been elected to the revamped BA Council for 1993–94 , following a postal ballot of the entire BA membership . |
| 12 | The vast majority of them are non-Kuwaiti nationals leaving Kuwait , erm Bengalis , Thais , Sri Lankans , Phillipinos , erm never mind Arab nationals who have been leaving to Egypt , Sudan , Lebanon , Syria and Jordan themselves . |
| 13 | Mr McCrystal , 68 , of Langlands Road , Govan , appeared at many meetings and on television to argue that thousands of workers who had been exposed to asbestos were now being denied justice . |
| 14 | Legislation was passed which required that persons who had been sentenced to an aggregate of more than three months imprisonment during the past seven years be committed to a superior court when charged with another offence . |
| 15 | I was disappointed that the Home Secretary spent so much of his time this afternoon outlining a few examples of asylum seekers who have been proved to be lying . |
| 16 | Intellectuals who had been encouraged to ‘ bloom ’ temporarily knew that the ‘ harvest reckoning ’ ( Kelly 1987 : 127 ) would follow . |
| 17 | A random sample of 100 was taken from the 308 patients who had been referred to the local Detoxification Unit during the same 12 months of the first prevalence study period . |
| 18 | In our cooperative study , in five general hospitals , renal ultrasonography was scheduled in 1526 consecutive patients who had been referred to the ultrasound service for any abdominal examination . |
| 19 | Led by Trude Unruh , 64 , the chair of the Grey Panthers who had been elected to the Bundestag in 1987 on the Greens ' list , the party 's main concerns were to be campaigning for better pensions and for better conditions in nursing homes and countering " ageist " attitudes . |
| 20 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |
| 21 | Never had anything been so well trumpeted to me ; surely there had been an element of hyperbole from so many colleagues and friends who had been going to the jamboree for years ? |
| 22 | He was wondering whether the slaves who had been shipped to America had looked like this , when he felt his mother 's gentle touch on his shoulder and turned to find her smiling fondly at him . |
| 23 | Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group . |
| 24 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 25 | Several London children who had been allocated to secondary education in a grammar or central school found , after they were evacuated , that they were denied it by the absence of such provision in their reception area . |
| 26 | Obviously children who have been neglected to the point that they are the subject of care proceedings are likely to be difficult and sometimes very disturbed . |
| 27 | A great remedy in croup for sensitive children who have been exposed to cold air or dry cold winds and have come down with croup the following morning ( see also Aconite and Spongia particularly ) ; worse ( < ) morning and evening . |
| 28 | Moderator the erm overture which we passed into an act er in the last sentence of section three says the names of such children , that 's those children who have been admitted to erm communion as children , shall be admitted to the communion roll of the congregation when they have made public profession of their faith that is , when they reach the point at which they make that normal statement and the my understanding would be people whose names are on the communion roll . |
| 29 | And it is well known that children who have been read to in their preschool years have a general advantage when the learning of reading begins . |
| 30 | They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia . |