Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [been] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the opposition , Gaselee has his eyes on Royal Athlete who finished third in the Cheltenham Gold Cup , Zeta 's Lad who has won five races this season , but is doubtful if the ground remains on the firm side and surprisingly Garrison Savannah who has been rather overlooked by the National pundits this year . |
| 2 | Sch 2 provides that an employee who has been continuously employed for a period of not less than two years shall have , as at present , the right to postpone her return to work for up to 29 weeks — with the possibility of an extension of four weeks if there is incapacity and medical evidence . |
| 3 | You have to pay SMP to any woman who has been continuously employed by you for at least 26 weeks into the qualifying week and whose average weekly earnings are at least equal to the lower earnings limit for NI contributions which applied in the qualifying week . |
| 4 | Asking someone who has been closely associated with garden flowers for more than 50 years to name his favourite one is rather like asking King Solomon to name his favourite wife — I love then all ! |
| 5 | Now , one member of the joint traffic management sub-committee who has been closely associated with all of these three issues is county councillor Tony and I must say , Mr Mayor that I am surprised to say the least by the way in which councillor appears appears to have been treated by some members of the labour party in this city . |
| 6 | For example , it is a recognized fact that a child who has been regularly beaten by one or both of his parents is extremely likely to inflict the same violence on his own children . |
| 7 | If the Minister holds meetings on the poultry industry , why does not his hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border ( Mr. Maclean ) , the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , agree to meet me to discuss the case of my constituent Mr. Johnston , a duck producer from Sharnidubs , who has been shabbily treated by the Ministry ? |
| 8 | I think one of my difficulties with Adam Bede is that she begins to lose interest a little bit in the figure of the beautiful , but not actually very bright , village girl , whose seduction is an important part of the story , and by the end of the book we feel that she 's actually bored with Hettie , is n't really concerned any longer to explore Hettie 's own sufferings as the other woman who has been badly treated by the rascally gentleman . |
| 9 | Ann 's other children are David , 24 , and 14-year-old Tracy , who has been badly affected by her sisters ' convictions . |
| 10 | Lewis was plump , and rather coarse in appearance ; Williams , who has been unkindly likened to a monkey , was actually rather ethereal in manner , with his long fingers and piercing eyes . |
| 11 | In ordinary parlance one might say that anyone who has been forcibly subjected to this offence has been raped ; the psychological effects are likely to be deep , and even if there is no risk of pregnancy ( as there is not from some rapes , since ejaculation is not part of the definition ) , there may be the risk of disease . |
| 12 | Attributed to the Master of the Borghese Tondo who has been tentatively identified with Jacopo del Tedesco , a follower of Ghirlandaio , the painting measures over 1 metre in diameter and is estimated at L150 to L200 million ( £72,000–96,600 ; $109,000–146,000 ) . |
| 13 | Now , you might feel that there is a significant difference between a murderer or bank robber and someone who has been wrongfully convicted of murder or bank robbery . |
| 14 | So including them here on a stock instrument represents something of a treat for the would-be vintage guitar purchaser who has been otherwise stopped in his tracks by the silly money habitually demanded for early '60s Strats . |
| 15 | Then again , Daniel Barenboim 's life-story reads a bit like one of Mann 's celebrated Bildungsromans — for it is the tale of a prodigy of immense talent and ambition who has been repeatedly subjected to Job-like tests of his emotional mettle . |
| 16 | It is perhaps hardly more than an anecdote , generally quite short in length , in which towards the end the reader , who has been gently led along one seemingly well-defined path , is suddenly switched into seeing the situation in quite a different light . |
| 17 | For a person who has been severely deprived in early childhood , envy of the baby who is receiving all the care that was and still is so much wanted can feel intolerable . |
| 18 | ‘ Virtually everyone who has been correctly oriented to the Streamline approach says that all of its positive features such as interleaved teacher 's notes , reintroduction of previously learned material , jargon-free instructions , emphasis on aural/oral study and clearly defined lesson targets make the series a joy to use . ’ |
| 19 | If somebody who has been actually shot at by a nuclear weapon is so goddamned complacent about it all , and so pig ignorant of the implications of the happening , what hope have we got that public opinion ( the silent majority ) will be sufficiently stirred to stop our power intoxicated leaders from brandishing their nuclear swords ? |
| 20 | A true representative is surely someone who is authorized to speak and act on behalf of those ( s ) he represents , and who has been so authorized by them . |
| 21 | The only sort of promotion that politicians really care about — to cabinet rank — went to John Redwood , the local-government minister and member for Wokingham , who has been bizarrely translated to Wales , a place for which he has no known affinity . |
| 22 | For anyone who has been significantly disabled by RSI there are two routes that can be followed . |
| 23 | A local authority may therefore bring proceedings : ( i ) to prevent parents from removing a child accommodated by the local authority under voluntary arrangements where a return home is likely to harm the child significantly ; ( ii ) to protect a child who has been significantly harmed in the past where this is likely to happen again because , for example , a parent is known to abuse in certain recurring circumstances ; ( iii ) to protect a child who has never been harmed where the family history clearly places him at risk , eg a new born or a child reaching an age at which other children in the family have been harmed . |
| 24 | ( Yes , really — a hostess ) who has been fully trained in the use of the lift and clamps . |
| 25 | Carrell ( 1983 , 1987 ) , who has been much occupied in determining the effects of schematic knowledge on reading comprehension , refers to such knowledge constructs as ‘ content schemata ’ . |
| 26 | Anglo-Amalgamated , for example , enabled Michael Powell to make an astonishing , if short-lived , comeback with Peeping Tom ( 1959 ) , which was scripted by Hammer hand Leo Marks and follows the murderous career of a seemingly gentle young focus-puller who has been psychologically damaged by his father 's pain experiments and gets his kicks from filming women in their death agonies , inflicted by the bayonet at the end of his tripod . |
| 27 | Although as yet there is in English law no general rule giving the plaintiff a right of recovery from a defendant who has been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , the concept of unjust enrichment lies at the heart of all the individual instances in which the law does give a right of recovery . |
| 28 | Eligibility for the scheme is defined in such a way as to exclude the very people who 've been worst hit by the cuts and to maximise the infl influence on the unemployment figures . |
| 29 | Um going back to this business of people who 've been abused at er as part of , well not exactly abused , people who 've been severely bullied in in sc in the school system , erm particularly when you 're talking about all boys schools , I mean this is one of the problems that they have to contend with . |
| 30 | That is um if you erm if you make children er sort of lie down on their fronts with their bums in their air and you and bums in their air and you touch anuses apparently the anus dilates , or it can do , erm allegedly in children who 've been sexually abused in that way , in children who 've been who 've been penetrated anally . |