Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [been] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He looks like a character who has been chucked out of a Stephen Conroy painting for making too much noise ’ was one of the more polite comments by the critics . |
| 2 | He hands over to a young man with a toothless grin under a Coca-Cola hat who has been elected locally as the group 's ‘ popular educator ’ . |
| 3 | Their hosts today welcome back David Plews who has been ruled out by a hamstring injury sustained at Norton in the opening game of the season . |
| 4 | First novel by one of the Best of Young British Novelists of 1983 who has been selected again in 1993 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Anyone who has been locked away like this would understand . |
| 7 | For most of the time he shifted about from one foot to the other , more like a naughty schoolboy who has been hauled up in front of the head master than a genie rubbed out of a bottle . |
| 8 | Pakistan 's main doubt is skipper Javed Miandad who has been laid up in London with a stomach complaint since leading Pakistan to Test victory at the Oval . |
| 9 | Gordon Brown , who has been squeezed out of the leadership race by Smith ( although he is said to be consoled by the fact that he is ten years younger and can wait a generation ) will have an important contribution to make . |
| 10 | Richard said , still sounding no more than irritated , and a trifle superior , like someone who has been held up on his way home by a street brawl . |
| 11 | Equally intriguing will be the line-out performance of the young London Irish lock , Neil Francis , who has been left out of the current Ireland squad . |
| 12 | But while Pearce might be irreplaceable for Forest , United have learnt to live without Robson , whose likely replacement at Wembley is Neil Webb , the former Forest midfielder who has been left out of United 's last three games . |
| 13 | TIM HARRIS , the national professional road-race champion who has been left out in the cold by British team sponsors , will be basking in Spanish sunshine next year , writes Graham Snowdon . |
| 14 | It is anticipated that anyone who has been admitted already to the AVMA panel will either be automatically admitted to the Law Society Medical Negligence Panel or will certainly receive something by way of an exemption . |
| 15 | She finds a fisherman who has been washed up on the shore . |
| 16 | An individual who has been brought up in the abstractions of education and capital , and who is certain of obtaining daily necessities , cultivates a distance from these needs , and affects a taste based in the respect and desire for the abstract , distanced and formal . |
| 17 | The new school year saw the opening of a Language Centre , and the Adshead Computer Room , founded by means of a generous bequest from the will of Professor J.G. Adshead , who has been mentioned already in these pages and who had died in August 1979 . |
| 18 | From this viewpoint , the criminal is an individual who has been labelled so by society , and this labelling does not apply to all individuals who break laws . |
| 19 | Sarah Clarke , who has been burgled twice in one year , also feels much more vulnerable . |
| 20 | He has met his brothers at the fair which accompanies the hiring but otherwise there has been no joy ; certainly nothing to bring to his wife , Emily , who has been driven up to the town and found refuge in the house of a local schoolmaster , Mr Stephens . |
| 21 | Then this lad who 'd been padded up with John come round to see us . |
| 22 | Several hearings were held , and as a teacher involved with the family , and as someone who 'd been asked officially to ‘ socialise , them , Mr M was asked to give information to the Children 's Panel . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When he went up to Cambridge he met another American who 'd been brought up in England , whose father was a journalist in the London bureau of the Washington Post , and he 'd had a thing about graveyards , too . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Personally , he just hoped it was some headcase from the funny farm up the hill who 'd been let out on parole too early with a meat axe . |
| 27 | You know Jesus has been the leader who 'd been taken away from his group , very clever tactical ploy . |
| 28 | There was one abominable story of a young man to whom this happened , a freelance journalist , who 'd been taken on by one of the agencies on a temporary trial which had n't worked out . |
| 29 | You 're soft on those who 've been treated badly by life — and if you 're not very careful it might well be you . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |