Example sentences of "who [verb] [be] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that not the best discouragement to crime and an encouragement to those elderly people who fear being attacked on the streets ? |
| 2 | The first came from a man in the front row , a crumpled , resilient-looking individual with the look of someone who has been dropped on his head from a great height at some stage in his life . |
| 3 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |
| 4 | In this respect it is to be contrasted with section 6 of the Bail Act 1976 , which does create an offence where a person who has been released on bail fails without reasonable cause to surrender to custody . |
| 5 | Moreover , in the case of a prisoner who has been released on licence under section 61 , if his licence is revoked , he is entitled under section 62(3) to make representations in writing with respect to his recall and to be informed of the reasons for it . |
| 6 | Three years ago Anna McGurk was murdered by a man who 'd been bailed on a rape charge . |
| 7 | The names of those who served and of those who died are recorded on the magnificent War Memorial in the vestibule of Thomas Street Church . |
| 8 | Ex-servicemen who 've been injured on duty have been meeting their old adversaries on the sporting field . |
| 9 | Now those of us who 've been involved on the Moat Highfields sub committee will have a need to know that when we were faced with really serious and horrendous problems , we found when faced with the reality and a great deal of detailed information , that an extraordinary amount of three party cooperation was achieved . |
| 10 | In this case , workers who had been employed on a intermittent basis for a number of years were found to have been continuously employed ( albeit with temporary cessations due to shortages of work ) and thus , when finally dismissed , entitled to full redundancy compensation . |
| 11 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 12 | On Aug. 7 the Presidents of Argentina , Ecuador and Venezuela , along with the United States Vice-President , the provisional President of Haiti and officials from 79 other countries , attended the inauguration of President César Gaviria Trujillo , 43 , who had been elected on May 27 [ see pp. 37450-51 ] . |
| 13 | Of the 22 Kurdish deputies , formerly members of the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) , who had been elected on the SHP ticket in October 1991 , only six remained on government benches . |
| 14 | Hanniah Lungu , hitherto Air Force Commander , was appointed Minister of Defence , succeeding Frederick Hapunda , who advocated a pluralist democracy and who had been dismissed on June 7 , officially for being " ineffective " in carrying out his duties . |
| 15 | Richard H. Truly who had been dismissed on Feb. 13 . |
| 16 | Among changes to the Council of State Secretaries [ see p. 38994 for previous government changes ] Mohammed Lamin Kamara became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , replacing Ahmed Ramadan — Dumbuya who had been dismissed on Oct. 30 , . |
| 17 | In Ridge v. Baldwin the House of Lords held that a chief constable , who had been acquitted on a criminal charge but criticized for lack of leadership by the judge , was entitled , under the common law rules of natural justice , to a hearing before he could be dismissed by the local authority who employed him . |
| 18 | Mondello , who had been acquitted on murder and manslaughter charges but who admitted having incited a 30-strong mob to attack Hawkins , received 5@1/3 to 16 years in the form of four consecutive sentences for riot and other felony charges . |
| 19 | In the early pool games , the referees proved to be very strict indeed in applying this particular law , even to the extent of penalising players who had been pushed on top of other players lying on the ground with the ball . |
| 20 | ‘ I saw it , ’ whispered Kirk , who had been raised on Wardle 's tomfoolery . |
| 21 | Robert Schuman , the French foreign minister after July 1948 who had been raised on the Franco-German border , was attracted to European unity as a way to bring a rapprochement between the two countries . |
| 22 | It was this nouveaux riches strategy which so jarred with those such as Veblen who had been raised on the more general American ethic that work itself was a highly moral activity in which pride should be taken , as in the case of Weber 's Protestant ethic which valued utility and austerity . |
| 23 | The protest was signed by among others , eight of the 10 deputies who had been named on March 22 as having been StB collaborators [ see p. 38107 ] , although not by Jan Kavan . |
| 24 | His sister , Linda Lee , who called at the house , said her children were talking about someone who had been killed on the railway line . |
| 25 | After tedious checks a clutch of people who had been seen on Hampstead Heath around the time of the death had been traced but none could be linked to the murder . |
| 26 | On May 6 four Israeli nationals who had been detained on Feb. 3 and charged with spying for Israel were released . |
| 27 | The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 28 | His wife , Jane , who had been convicted on two counts of extortion and conspiracy , was sentenced to three months . |
| 29 | Also pardoned was Clair E. George , a former executive within the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , who had been convicted on Dec. 9 on two felony charges of perjury and misleading Congress after a second trial [ for ending of first trial see p. 39043 ] . |
| 30 | Mike Doogan , chairman of the town 's chamber of trade , said he was bitterly disappointed for those who had been left on the dole . |