Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [adv] [been] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny Andrew Morrison , who was born nine weeks early at the Countess of Chester Hospital , is among 481 children treated by a junior doctor who has since been found to be suffering from TB . |
| 2 | As anyone who has ever been confined to a closed institution will know , meals are events : they are the landmarks in each repetitive day , often providing the only elements of novelty or surprise in an otherwise predictable routine . |
| 3 | The county call-up goes to Steve Lewis , a left hand batsman and wicket keeper who has recently been transferred to the island station . |
| 4 | A man who 'd once been engaged to her sister . |
| 5 | " Take the Tran family over there who 've just been introduced to your father , for instance . |
| 6 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 7 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 8 | Its central theme concerns a young man , Colby Simpkins , who has entered the service of Sir Claude Mulhammer as a " confidential clerk " ; Mulhammer in fact believes Colby to be his illegitimate son , raised by a Mrs Guzzard in Teddington , but his paternity is thrown in doubt when Sir Claude 's wife , Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer , claims Colby as her own illegitimate son who had also been dispatched to Mrs Guzzard . |
| 9 | Throughout his evidence , Price implicated the applicant ( whom he identified from a photograph ) in those dealings as the man who had informed him of the consignment of cannabis in Sweden , and had asked him and a man named Ryan ( who had also been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment ) to deliver it to customers in Sweden . |
| 10 | In February the Interior Minister , Col. Djibril Ould Abdullah , who had generally been considered to be second in the political hierarchy and had been involved in 1986 in the vigorous suppression of unrest among black Mauritanians , was dismissed and replaced by Col. Mohammed Sidina Ould Sidya , a southerner [ see p. 37239 ] . |
| 11 | Certainly Artai would consider no one who had already been married to another , whether she had children or not . |
| 12 | The man who had previously been compared to a dissected rabbit ( Barry Egan , NME ) and a pale , sad faced , First World War Volunteer ( John Peel , The Observer ) , found himself as a viable alternative to Brother Beyond , Wet Wet Wet and the Goss twins , for a bedroom wall appearance . |
| 13 | His second wife was Joan , daughter of William of Standon , who had previously been married to Bartholomew de Briaunzon . |
| 14 | One very reliable source recalled another John Birch who had indeed been sent to prison for the offence mentioned above , and my informant suspects that this is where the confusion initially stemmed from . |
| 15 | In Grampian all psychiatric patient contacts since 1963 are notified to the Grampian psychiatric case register , search of the register found no outpatient with presenile Alzheimer 's disease who had never been admitted to psychiatric hospital . |
| 16 | Of the 89 records we scrutinised , only three were of patients with probable Alzheimer 's disease who had never been admitted to psychiatric hospital . |
| 17 | At the top of the social pyramid was the aristocracy , large landowners whose families had long served Moscow ( the boyars ) and ex-appanage princes who had gradually been drawn to the metropolis . |
| 18 | On 27 December Babrak Karmal , who had been a member of the post-coup government but who had subsequently been exiled to the USSR , announced that the former president had been deposed and that he had taken power ; the following day it was announced that Hafizullah Amin had been executed for ‘ crimes against the noble people of Afghanistan ’ . |
| 19 | The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount . |
| 20 | Another source of future friction lies in the failure of the congress to elevate Mr Pozsgay above other presidium members , some of whom had never been elected to a top party position . |