Example sentences of "who [verb] been [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promptly eased it back onto the lap and desperately tried to imitate someone who has been asleep for hours , with his arm wrapped fiercely round his dog . |
| 2 | Her Royal Highness sat at a round table with the Duke and Duchess of Westminster , Viscount and Viscountess Astor , Mr and Mrs Ian Bruce he is the Director General of the RNIB ; $insert names$ and his sister Lady Aird who has been one of Princess Margaret 's ladies-in-waiting for thirty years , and was in attendance this evening . |
| 3 | ‘ La Malfa 's resignation just shows that anyone who has been involved in government for so long can be involved ( in corruption ) , however pure he may claim to be , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Bill Knowles , the general manager of the Ipswich Co-op — who has been involved in talks with the NCP — said he was confident the scheme would go ahead but the timing had to be right . |
| 5 | The centre was formed in 1984 by the Jesuit order under the leadership of its current Director , Fr Joe Naidu , who has been involved in WACC activities in India for several years . |
| 6 | Anybody who has been involved in community organising will have experience of situations where the ( actual or perceived ) formality of the meeting has restricted participation by people who may be active and vociferous before and/or after the meeting . |
| 7 | ‘ We have put in entirely our own money , ’ says Hargrave , who has been far from down-at-heel since Biermann 's arrival . |
| 8 | In particular , such contempt may be dealt with without there being any formal institution of proceedings as such and by the judge who has been subject to abuse . |
| 9 | Mark , who has been blind from birth , has had a meteoric rise in radio broadcasting , being given his own show less than a year after joining Radio Cleveland as a reporter . |
| 10 | Yet , faced with the harsh fact that saving will benefit neither himself nor his family and frugality be of profit to none of his prospective beneficiaries , a rich man who has been generous in life will be encouraged to a prodigal standard of living . |
| 11 | ( And ALFRED , who has been near to tears , starts to sniffle . ) |
| 12 | Ruth McCurry , who has been responsible for Mowbray 's development since its purchase by Cassell in 1988 , continues as publisher with responsibility for Geoffrey Chapman . |
| 13 | It will be headed as president by Willie Shen , who has been m.d. of Longman Group Far East for the past 18 years , and will initially be made up of two divisions : Longman Hong Kong and Longman Asia ELT . |
| 14 | Highlander was a linkpin in the whole operation , bringing together many people who had been involved in land issues over a large geographical area , schools , community groups , local politicians , academics , and interested individuals Workshops at Highlander laid the foundations for articulation of the problems and a research methodology for establishing the relative facts and presenting them in a manner which would best suit community requirements . |
| 15 | In total Oshima named seven senior members of the LDP who had been involved in efforts to force his party to desist . |
| 16 | John Tutchin , himself a Nonconformist and someone who had been involved in Monmouth 's rebellion , frequently attacked the High Church lower clergy in his Whig periodical , The Observator , but was prepared to defend the Church hierarchy , saying that we had " the best set of Bishops that ever England yet knew " . |
| 17 | Jonah and Petrovsky were to be assisted by Giandomenico Picco ( Italy , who had been involved in negotiations for the release of hostages in Lebanon — see pp. 38550 ; 38694 ) and Sotirios Mousouris ( Greece ) , both with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General . |
| 18 | Was n't he the one who had been friendly with Pamella Bordes , or was it Donald Trelford of the Observer ? |
| 19 | They were identified as those of Ruth Fuerst , an Austrian nurse , who had been missing since 1943 ; Muriel Eady , who had been one of Christie 's colleagues at work in 1944 ; Christie 's wife ; and three prostitutes . |
| 20 | The stewardship of the duchy was given to John lord Dynham , who had been one of Edward IV 's leading associates in the south west and as such had already had dealings with the duchy . |
| 21 | The stewardship of the duchy was given to John lord Dynham , who had been one of Edward IV 's leading associates in the south west and as such had already had dealings with the duchy . |
| 22 | Barney , who had been deep in thought , spoke as the car thundered past the Berkeley Hunt kennels . |
| 23 | Breeze , who had been deep in thought , came back with a start to her present surroundings . |
| 24 | In Leeds Private Hospital Ltd v Parkin [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 3 , the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld an industrial tribunal decision that a man with a known disability who had been absent from work for four days , as had the pregnant employee in this case , would not have been dismissed . |
| 25 | He describes lodging in the beautifully furnished house of a respectable widow with artistic tastes , who had been impoverished by inflation . |
| 26 | The rage of the Iceni spread through the south-east , affecting first the Trinovantes who had been simmering in discontent for some years . |
| 27 | Brandt 's successor , appointed on 16 May 1974 , was Helmut Schmidt , a pragmatic , intelligent man , who had been critical of Brandt 's leadership at times , and who could be brusque and impatient . |
| 28 | Then Vera Volkova , the Russian teacher who had been influential in England , taught the Royal Danes for 25 years , changing their style and giving them a more modern technique . |
| 29 | Two patients who had been negative for dysplasia were found to have low grade dysplasia in their colectomy specimens . |
| 30 | The affair of the Lucona , which blew up off the Maldives in January 1977 , had led to the resignations of three leading politicians who had been close to Proksch . |