Example sentences of "[noun] who have [be] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not , however , immediately apparent to those photographers , instrument makers and lanternists who had been fired up to experiment with moving pictures after hearing reports of Edison 's Kinetoscope , the original what-the-butler-saw machine , or witnessing the first projection of films made by the Lumière Brothers in 1896 . |
| 2 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 3 | When John Howard died , ‘ Texas ’ was known only to a small number of Mexicans , American Indians and the occasional settler who had been thrown out of , or wandered away from , the established ‘ colonies ’ to the north and east . |
| 4 | He felt like a boxer who had been pummelled mercilessly against the ropes , on the verge of defeat , only to see his opponent 's corner throw in the towel . |
| 5 | It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties . |
| 6 | By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available . |
| 7 | One element has caused a great deal of discussion — the two days allowed for an applicant who has been turned down to notify the adjudicator of his wish to appeal and to present the kernel of his or her case . |
| 8 | The battle achieved a notoriety in America when Life magazine published the photographs of 241 GIs who had been killed there in less than a week . |
| 9 | 10.8 If an employee who has been declared permanently unfit refuses reasonable offers of suitable alternative employment , they will be dismissed on grounds of permanent disablement . |
| 10 | For a brief time the descendants of those Highlanders who had been forced down into the valley to find work a century before had returned to the land of their fathers . |
| 11 | She says many youngsters who 've been brought up in care are often incapable of looking after themselves when they leave . |
| 12 | A Polynesian folktale tells of Rata , who travelled across the ocean and ingeniously outwitted a hungry whale by jamming open its jaws with a broken oar ; venturing in through the mouth he came face to face with his parents who had been gulped down before him . |
| 13 | It is not clear whether these were part of the advance column who had been marched back from Bleiburg or some of the vast majority of the Croats who had never entered Austria at all . |
| 14 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 15 | Yet , the Labour MP Jeff Rooker claims , there have been examples of Royal Warwickshire prisoners of war seeking desperately needed help who have been given as little as £25 , while many more have been means-tested and found ‘ unqualified ’ for even basic financial assistance . |
| 16 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |
| 17 | The second specialist who had been called in — a man by the name of Adams — had assured Brian that his wife would recover in time , but he did not share his optimism . |
| 18 | A child who has been stretched emotionally and imaginatively in fashioning a pot from a lump of clay or weaving upon a simple loom will come , through the process of doing , to learn much about himself and gain some understanding of the pain , pleasure and struggle which underpin craftsmanship . |
| 19 | The Trades Union Congress had called the strike in order to support the coal miners who had been locked out by the coal owners , who were attempting to impose wage reductions upon them . |
| 20 | He walked away to the desk , collecting his key , and as he walked towards the lifts he flicked a quick glance back to the girl who 'd been brought up as his daughter . |
| 21 | The trap in Sam 's boathouse kept intruding and so did Angela Brickell ; the cold threat of khaki water that could rush into aching lungs to bring oblivion and the earthy girl who 'd been claimed back by the earth , eaten clean by earth creatures , become earth-digested dust . |
| 22 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 23 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 24 | She was a shy , retiring girl who had been brought up in a convent school after being abandoned as a baby . |
| 25 | I am very conscious of what I would not be putting forward but I would include Rachel Whiteread for her contribution to Documenta : I 'm watching Anya Gallachio who has just shown at the ICA , and I would include Angela Bulloch who has been understood abroad more than here . |
| 26 | Some were housewives who had been called up under the call up for women of forty-five to fifty . |
| 27 | Only when Zimbabwean Peter Ndlovu , Coventry 's exciting striker who had been kept out by their recent resurgence in form , came on as substitute after the break was there occasional menace . |
| 28 | I have led back into the homeland the millions of deeply unhappy Germans who had been torn away from us . |
| 29 | At the other extreme was a Filipino who had been brought up in the slums of Manila , his father an alcoholic drug dealer and his mother a whore . |
| 30 | Braving the cameras and the columnists , and the experts who 'd been brought in to analyse every glance and nuance of their body language , they faced the world , and slowly worked at healing the rift between them . |