Example sentences of "[verb] [det] who had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relating these results to our measures of attitude to the police we found those who had been stopped etc. , had a less favourable attitude to the police on all three measures . |
| 2 | Dr Kepepwe assured me active steps were being taken to trace those who had been intimate with me during the ten blank years : my parents , my academic colleagues . |
| 3 | Burton wrote , with typical flaring generosity ( like his fellow Welshman , Henry VII , he never forgot those who had been with him around the campfire when the crown was hardly even a dream in unreal England ) : |
| 4 | She disapproved of the haphazard selection of foster parents ( she would have much preferred the children to go to hostels run on the lines of Bunce Court ) and , when the Movement pressed ahead anyway , she concentrated on plucking out from the crowd the children she identified as especially gifted and on salvaging those who had been packed off to unsuitable foster homes . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the probable and longer-term human consequences of a growing emphasis upon the efficient competitive selection and of a commitment to the formula ( IQ + Effort = Merit ) disconcerted those who had been content to march under the banners of equal educational opportunity , free access to grammar schools , and the end of nepotism . |
| 6 | President Mobutu Sese Seko signed a decree on Feb. 10 granting amnesty to Zaïrean exiles who had been accused of threatening state security through speech , writing or in any other manner ; it also covered those who had been removed from official posts or banned by the government from involvement in civic and political life . |
| 7 | The visitors , who included several who had been employed at RHS in its early days , were welcomed to the service by the school chaplain , the Rev Kevan McCormack , who referred to the support given to the school by many local people over the years . |
| 8 | Finally , in continuity with some elements of the earlier anti-slave trade argument , Buxton , Stephen and Clarkson all saw British pride in the achievement of abolition and the moral stature this accorded the nation , at least in its own eyes , as requiring the step of liberating those who had been stolen from Africa before 1807 and their descendants since the principle of hostility to man stealing remained the same . |
| 9 | Several thousand Estonians were reported to have demonstrated on 23 August , the date of the pact 's signature ; still larger numbers , between 7,000 and 10,000 , were reported to have demonstrated in Latvia ( where substantial demonstrations also occurred in June 1987 to commemorate those who had been deported from the republic by the Soviet authorities in 1941 ) . |
| 10 | Would a rescuer be denied an action on the ground of ex turpi causa , e.g. if one burglar was injured attempting to assist another who had been placed in danger by the dangerous condition of the house they were breaking into ? |
| 11 | Only with an effort did those who had been to all the other parties locate one another and separate themselves from the mob . |
| 12 | For much of this unhappy early chapter in Diana 's royal life , she had excluded those who had been near and dear to her , although Prince Charles still saw his former friends , particularly the Parker-Bowles and the Palmer-Tomkinsons . |
| 13 | Although the possibility of this resulting in misdiagnosis is obviously present , follow up on this group of patients did not reveal any who had been falsely diagnosed as having malignancy . |