Example sentences of "[adj] who have been [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |
| 2 | I retrieved the case notes for as many patients as possible who had been registered locally as having died of asthma during 1980–9 ( 21 case notes out of 40 in total ) . |
| 3 | We see an incredible number of young people , and it worries me immensely that these are people at sixteen who 've been chucked out of their homes , and they are being pushed down by bureaucracy , that they are being penalised for leaving home at sixteen when it is not their own fault , it is the fault of well it is the result of family breakdown that they are being pushed out . |
| 4 | Patient 4 who had been operated on before referral received additional radiation therapy . |
| 5 | You 're soft on those who 've been treated badly by life — and if you 're not very careful it might well be you . ’ |
| 6 | If any of those who had been turned away chose to complain , they would meet the same bored lack of interest . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After exclusion of those who had been rehydrated intravenously before admission to the hospital the median duration of preoperative rehydration treatment was similar in both groups ( 21 hours in group A and 22 hours in group B ; W=35314.5 , p=0.2 ( -4.3 to 0.8 ) ) . |
| 10 | There were beds available for those with particular problems , such as those who had been injecting over a long period . |
| 11 | On July 25th , 1908 , the rails forced their way into Denwood , and those who had been waiting so long and patiently considered that the prizes were theirs at last . |
| 12 | This is probably a result of inadequate treatment and is more common in those who have been treated late on in the infectious stage . |
| 13 | THE glow of recognition will be sweet for those who have been singled out in the New Year Honours list . |
| 14 | All those who have been sticking religiously to their macrobiotic diet sheets while dreaming wistfully of soft boiled eggs and buttered soldiers can probably breathe again ( but watch this space ) . |
| 15 | The people who will suffer most will be those who have been hit so hard already by the attempted dismantling of the welfare state . |
| 16 | All the students , even those who have been staring out of the window , react to this . |
| 17 | The change becomes easier and easier and when the mid-point is passed those who have been left behind with the old method are only too eager to catch up with their colleagues . |
| 18 | Let us think for a moment about some of those who have been left behind . |
| 19 | So much is made these days of the high-profile young dance companies who are ‘ trying to find their own vocabularies of movement ’ , that it is all too easy to forget those who have been doing just that , very quietly , for a long time . |
| 20 | As for Svengali , Owen Jones was one of several who had been mesmerised out of Port Talbot by Burton 's powers . |
| 21 | The latter looked admiringly at the other two who have been preserved long past their life expectancy . |
| 22 | First novel by one of the Best of Young British Novelists of 1983 who has been selected again in 1993 . |