Example sentences of "who [verb] [been] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Hobden , this is Robert Sheldrake , who has been good enough to come with me , so you 'll have the benefit of two opinions . ’ |
| 2 | Building licences are difficult to get and the developer who has been fortunate enough to obtain one is often willing to pay a much inflated price for a piece of land upon which to build . |
| 3 | I have listened in vain to hear anyone , in any political party , who has been courageous enough to face up to the crisis in the social services . |
| 4 | In this we will meet the desires of your good father , who has been gracious enough to give permission for my suit and endow his future son with the means withal to be worthy of your hand . |
| 5 | She is the only pop star of any sex who has been shrewd enough to re-invent herself successfully at 18- months interval since David Bowie in the Seventies . |
| 6 | Ask any player who has been unfortunate enough to fire a ball into the thick marram grass of a dune on a links and he 'll tell you there is only one way out — pick it up and start again . |
| 7 | Her husband , who has been ill recently , was hustled off to a chair in the corner . |
| 8 | LISA , 18 , is a student of English who has been unemployed twice , including being made redundant when only 16 . |
| 9 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 10 | He was apparently speaking for George Bush , who had been upset both by the tales of torture in an Amnesty report and by the inadequacy of the Kuwaiti government changes . |
| 11 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 12 | In those 11 patients who had been well enough to undergo radionuclide ventriculography , the mean left ventricular ejection fraction was 11.7% ( range 6–20% ) . |
| 13 | In whatever form they existed the documents continued to be known , for they were mentioned to Anselm by Osbern in 1093 , and examined in the royal court in 1109 in the presence of at least one bishop who had been present also in 1072 . |
| 14 | Skelton and Everest Major Wager , who had been unlucky not to reach the jump-off of the Volvo showjumping World Cup round , went flat out to overtake Whitaker on Henderson Grannusch in the Grand Prix . |
| 15 | The Daily Graphic ( 30 March 1898 ) described the fate of one young man , Thomas Duff , who had been unlucky enough to be charged with ‘ riding a tricycle to the common danger ’ and to encounter a magistrate who took an extremely dim view of the matter . |
| 16 | But once she took over the directorship of the Institute for Chemical Research in Bucharest ( ICECHIM ) , she began to purge those scientists who had been foolish enough to cast doubt on her credentials or to refuse to ‘ co-operate ’ with her research . |
| 17 | It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence . |
| 18 | No sooner one woman in the grave whom he had cheated on , a woman who had been miserable enough to kill herself , than he was in bed with another . |
| 19 | Jane Bradford , head of NatWest 's small business service , said people who had been unemployed possibly took more care over the initial planning , or were less likely to be optimistic than those who had quit their jobs . |
| 20 | The PVO rebels went back to their old game of harassing the Karens who had been restless ever since their claims to a separate state on ambitious lines had failed . |
| 21 | Since then anyone who had been unwise enough to venture along the corridor had been pounced upon and picked clean . |
| 22 | Nevertheless in London the abortive strike was accompanied by great bitterness , much of it directed at Wilson who had been bold enough to speak the unpalatable truth in difficult circumstances . |
| 23 | From some depth of courage and purpose she who had been silent so long was finding the will to speak at last . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing , ’ said Comfort , who had been unable either to forget or justify some of the things she had said to Julia during the war . |
| 25 | Those who have been gallant enough to go ‘ mad ’ for the rest of us are supposed to stay mad , otherwise it threatens our belief that craziness is ‘ out there ’ . |
| 26 | Ghastly things have happened to girls who have been stupid enough to do so . ’ |
| 27 | Certainly so far as we are concerned we would completely recognise your position and we are in fact , since your position is shared by several other experts in their respective fields who have been good enough to assist us in this venture , doing our very best to see that the names of those who are taking part in the policy study groups do not become public property . |
| 28 | We owe it to our supporters who have been magnificent all along the line , ’ says McGilligan . |