Example sentences of "[noun pl] who have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The druggist , a bird-like little man in his fifties who longed to repeat his father 's reputation as town matchmaker , but had so little chance since the youngsters who had n't moved out permanently were commuting to bigger towns , was delighted to see two mature strangers getting together over coffee . |
| 2 | But still , the great majority of posts are held by the sort of steady chaps who have always made up the Great and Good . |
| 3 | After the Turkish conquest of most of Hungary in the 1520s and 1530s the Hungarian nobles who had then fled westwards often still maintained claims to their former lands and even asserted their right to live tax-free on them for a limited period and to levy feudal dues in them . |
| 4 | The meeting was held to contain and deal with the mobilization of an estimated 400-500 re-contras ( disbanded contras who had again taken up arms ) in the northern Jinotega province . |
| 5 | Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south . |
| 6 | It was appropriate to the spirit of jazz ( and a useful antidote to the inevitable toe-curling staginess of awards ceremonies in general ) to present two bands of joint American-British instrumentalists who had not worked together before to see what would happen . |
| 7 | She was delighted at having the chance to work with one of the rock world 's most distinguished performers who had already branched out into the movie business . |
| 8 | At Bhamdoun , a hill resort with a little railway station , an ornate French signal box and a clutch of mosques and apartment blocks built by the Saudis who had once gone there for their summer holidays , Syrian shellfire had smashed into the shops and flats , punching a hole into the wall of the Carlton Hotel . |
| 9 | He turned to John Scales who had just come in . |
| 10 | Persons who have not contracted directly with the exchange , and this includes most customers , are not generally bound by the exchange rules , nor is the exchange itself liable to such persons . |
| 11 | The personal consequences of complete isolation in hospital for patients and families who have previously socialised freely are potentially enormous . |
| 12 | If the Minister can give us any example from the privatisation programme , in which the Government have been engaged since 1979 , of a Secretary of State coming to the House in order to bring in check private owners who have subsequently done away with the right of the employees of former public companies , I should be extremely interested to hear about it . |
| 13 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 14 | ( They 're primitive , semi-humanoid exters who have n't given up being cannibals despite sharply reduced birth rate . |
| 15 | I would also expect to see as a result of local shortages , more sharing of dwellings , by households who have formed not the same of concealed households who have n't succeeded in . |
| 16 | Most faces have turned to watch the ā gri who 's just come out of the shrine and is standing in the doorway . |
| 17 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 18 | It can be proposed that the ‘ market room ’ ( on the platform ) for newcomers who have not generated completely new demand markets , is provided by their capture of markets from local firms on the platform . |
| 19 | In March 1988 considerable consternation was created , not least among teachers who had generally responded very positively to the TGAT report , by the leak of a letter about the report from the Prime Minister 's secretary to Kenneth Baker 's secretary . |
| 20 | Not to be out done on an international occasion we can report here about some of our Qualified Teachers who have temporarily laid aside their small apparatus and have become mothers again : |
| 21 | The majority of poems concerning death are most commonly laments for lost friends who have already passed away . |
| 22 | ‘ When we played St Helens in our first match we had nine players who had never competed together before , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women . |
| 24 | The same tendency to concentrate on grapho-phonemic cues has , however , been demonstrated by other children who had not had predominantly phonic training . |
| 25 | Two patient subgroups were identified : these were children who had recently travelled abroad ( 11 ) , and children who had an itinerant existence within the United Kingdom , generally living in caravan sites ( 11 ) . |
| 26 | Indeed , the reason for the greater frequency of chronic diarrhoea in this study in comparison with others in the United Kingdom , may be partly explained by the subgroups of children who had recently travelled abroad and those who had an itinerant existance . |
| 27 | A survey in a Southwark Salvation Army hostel in 1987 found that nearly 40 per cent of men who had recently moved in had symptoms which pointed to a diagnosis of schizophrenia . |
| 28 | Of the 750 men who had originally walked out , 450 were still in Edinburgh ; of these 200 were still unemployed a week later and it was thought that full absorption would take up to six months ; in fact by early April , only 20 strikers were still without work . |
| 29 | And angry young men are just older men who have n't grown up and can only see one side of the coin . |
| 30 | There are many stories of men who have deliberately sought out and chosen loneliness and contempt and poverty . |