Example sentences of "a woman who have [be] " in BNC.

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1 Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced .
2 Successes have included gaining removal expenses for a woman who had been refused them , and furniture from Calderdale Voluntary Services for another woman who was not entitled to a Single Payment from the DHSS .
3 Here was a woman who had been trying to have a child ever since her marriage and yet she , Celia , had conceived not merely without any difficulty but on the one and only time she had not taken steps to prevent it .
4 And once , as she filmed in WPc uniform in London 's Shepherd 's Bush market , a woman who had been mugged thought she was the real Bill and begged her for help .
5 Later , much later , when she had occasion to meet a policeman 's wife , a woman who had been beaten up by her husband for taking a lover on the nights he was on duty , the wife said to her , ‘ Well , you ought to understand .
6 A woman who had been up getting herself a glass of water heard the commotion and ran out into the street .
7 She wrote that a woman who had been a comp for eleven years had told her that the subject of a union had never been mentioned to her before .
8 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 .
9 A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's .
10 One day , however , Mirabeau was to prove a coward : Flaubert reports that he funked his task when faced with a woman who had been guillotined .
11 As she could not afford to keep a nanny or an au pair , having permanently available a woman who had borne and reared ten children , together with a woman who had been one of them , had been to Scarlet a godsend .
12 He was the son of a woman who had been a nightclub singer and briefly married to Juan Gómez , that was all my tired mind seemed able to grasp .
13 Yet how could one possibly become acquainted with his wife , Marie , a woman who had been on the stage and who , it was known , had lived with him in adultery while waiting to be divorced !
14 There had been no poverty at all , no necessity to move except the necessity of a woman who had been driven by some perverse whim to deny her former husband the right to see his daughter .
15 ‘ We were contacted last Friday by a woman who had been asked by this man to make a donation to War on Want .
16 A shopkeeper had a dispute with a customer , a woman who had been waiting for a bus had popped in to mention parking on the footpath at weekends , the school had organised some Maypole dancing and wondered if part of the car park could be cordoned off , somebody else wanted vehicle watch forms .
17 ‘ Dewy-eyed , flushed , like a woman who 's been held and kissed and wants to be kissed again . ’
18 A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row .
19 The information required will be — the full names of the ceased person , and any other names that they have been known by , including the maiden surname of a woman who has been married ; their date and place of birth ; their recent occupation , and their husband 's full name and occupation , if the person who has died was a married woman .
20 In it , a small child roams the streets , talking to strangers , until he finally goes off with a woman who has been wandering about pushing an empty pram .
21 9.18–26 ; Luke 8.40–56 ) he heals a woman who has been unclean for many years because of a flow of blood .
22 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) .
23 A woman who has been in an employer 's scheme for 17 years out of a total working life of 34 years will expect her employer to pay exactly half of her additional pension .
24 The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way .
25 The article was obviously written by a woman who has been there and survived , as I have .
26 A woman who has been raped may wish to take a test for HIV ; however the test will not show a conclusive result until at least three months after the assault .
27 It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him .
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