Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [Wh pn] [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well done to … the Leeds branch of The Guild of Hairdressers who have been raising money over the last twelve months for the Children 's ’ Wing at the Seacroft Hospital . |
| 2 | In last month 's issue , The Art Newspaper published the list of artists who have been included in this ambitious survey and identified a second list of candidates whom Rosenthal and Joachimedes had decided to ignore . |
| 3 | By 1966 , the Church was better able to take advantage of the new interest in its separatist stance because it now had a core of Ulstermen who had been converted under Ian Paisley s preaching and who had grown up with his politicized evangelicalism . |
| 4 | The court will not make an order unless it considers it just and equitable to do so having regard , in particular , to the number of shareholders who have been traced but who have not accepted the offer . |
| 5 | A few years later , however , the distant future showed every indication of having already arrived when these nagging anxieties grabbed the headlines around the large numbers of recruits who had been found unfit for service in the Boer War , and in spite of the half-hearted reassurances of the Physical Deterioration Committee of 1904 fears of racial deterioration were rampant . |
| 6 | The terrible toll of road deaths is heavily weighted by the number of drivers who have been drinking . |
| 7 | Certainly not the army of supporters who 've been painting , odd-jobbing and generally mucking in over the past week . |
| 8 | But teetotallers include people who are too ill to fancy a drink , and a smattering of ex-alcoholics who have been warned that their next drink may be their last . |
| 9 | For Mordecai it was a symbolic birthplace , for he was a direct descendant from one of the millions of Jews who had been evacuated from the Middle East in 1990 . |
| 10 | The secretary-general of the Council of Guardians , Ayatollah Rezvani , told Iranian television on May 7 that of candidates who had been disqualified in the pre-election screening , some 80 per cent had been rejected by the executive committees and some 20 per cent by the Council of Guardians itself . |
| 11 | The granting or the withholding of that use depends on factors over which the voter has no control : lower-preference votes come into play only if higher-preference votes have proved surplus to the quotas of candidates who have been elected or have become useless to candidates who have been eliminated . |
| 12 | ‘ The board are currently selecting a short list of candidates who have been introduced to us independently by Pro Ned Limited . |
| 13 | YORK IS preparing to repel a band of gypsies who have been travelling to the city for centuries . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In 1983 , in order to extend the international scope of our work , a survey questionnaire that had been pre-tested with social work educators from Australia , India , Israel , and the United States was mailed to all member colleges , universities , and national affiliate associations of the International Association of Schools of Social Work and to a list of individuals who had been identified as experts on paraprofessional social welfare personnel in their own countries or internationally . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the 1960s the emphasis was on labour-intensive industries such as textiles and consumer electronics to employ the thousands of workers who had been left redundant by the withdrawal of the British . |
| 18 | Shortly after his accession , he ordered the release of Catholics who had been imprisoned for refusing to go to church or for not taking oaths , and ordered the Exchequer to repay their fines . |
| 19 | They look mostly the same breed of numbskulls who 've been mishandling the Allan Lamb case for a month . |
| 20 | Back on earth , how are the thousands of accountants who have been laid off faring ? |
| 21 | Their new abode was in a small , intimate street of 26 houses ; the Titfords in the male line were second generation immigrants from Somerset , but their neighbours there in Islington consisted of families who had been born anywhere other than London — a cosmopolitan mixture of Geordies , Lancastrians , people from Essex , Suffolk , Shropshire , Kent , Wiltshire , Somerset and Norfolk . |
| 22 | ‘ It should have been Bells with the number of ringers who 've been playing ’ . |
| 23 | There are no exact figures for the numbers of Salvadoreans who have been forced to leave their homes because of the civil war , Some are economic refugees , but the great majority have fled because of the repression . |
| 24 | There are a few reported cases of lesbians who have been infected with HIV through sex with other women . |
| 25 | Romero linked his readings with the reality of life in El Salvador and each week his sermon was followed by ‘ a reading of every documented case of persons who had been killed , assaulted , tortured or disappeared by any group on the left or the right ’ . |
| 26 | The water is intended to wash away the contamination of sacredness of persons who have been acting a priestly role . |
| 27 | Secondly , that whatever the words of the statute may suggest , the conflict with Code C and with a long established ‘ right of silence ’ is so acute that , whatever the statute may appear to say , it must be understood as subject to an implied exception in the case of persons who have been charged . |
| 28 | In Michigan , for example , 50 per cent of patients who had been found not guilty by reason of insanity during the mid-1970's were discharged from mental hospital within 60 days . |
| 29 | Studies of series of patients who have been operated on report survival not much worse than that expected for the age matched general population , but they ignore the possible effects of length-time bias and case selection for operation . |
| 30 | In this study we have assessed renal function in a group of patients who have been maintained on delayed release mesalazine from six months to over six years . |