Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 2 | He put himself forward as a self-consciously ordinary man , a politician who asked to be identified with as an equal rather than deferred to as a leader . |
| 3 | But the group who were seeing Mr Hurd this week , or who asked to be associated with the visit , included the Tory backbenchers Sir John Biggs-Davison , Sir John Farr and Mr John Wheeler . |
| 4 | TWO four-year-old boys from ‘ intentionally homeless ’ families who applied to be rehoused by their council have no legal claim , the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday . |
| 5 | Those who expected to be met by family or friends were aware of the inconvenience the delay would be causing . |
| 6 | Cecil Rhodes , whom no one thought of as retiring and who expected to be remembered for a thousand years , chose , it will be remembered , as his instrument to achieve the infinite expansion of the British empire a secret society . |
| 7 | Doctors and nurses tend to keep each other at arm 's length ; no wonder the RCN had trouble coming to terms with the status of nurses who seemed to be engaged in the same work as doctors . |
| 8 | Belgion , a man who seemed to be equipped with a steam-boiler instead of a body , had criticized a remark of Eliot 's in After Strange Gods , namely that in order to study with thoroughness Hindu and Buddhist thought and the Sanskrit and Pali languages in which they were expounded , he would have been obliged to turn himself into an oriental . |
| 9 | Tamar had little chance to talk to Stephen , who seemed to be occupied on estate business from morn till night . |
| 10 | It is the portrait of a brash , insensitive but privately vulnerable man , who suffered from being portrayed as the comic perpetrator of ‘ Goldwynisms ’ : ‘ the public stayed away in droves ’ , ‘ include me out ’ , and many more , many apocryphal . |
| 11 | Throughout the summer the dolphin , who came to be known as Opo , played with swimmers , performed tricks , escorted boats in the harbour , and for 11 weeks received regular newspaper coverage . |
| 12 | ‘ It was when the friend of the family , Donald Templeton , the trusted and valued doctor who attended both Farr and his wife , came to call that the plans of the man who came to be known as the Wimbledon poisoner came badly unstuck . |
| 13 | Whether on purpose or by mistake , Kimberly was exchanged for the baby who came to be known as Arlena Twigg . |
| 14 | After winning an amateur talent contest in Chicago at the age of 15 , the woman who came to be known as the Queen Of The Blues spent the next few years singing in low-life nightclubs , occasionally supplementing her meagre income by cleaning lavatories . |
| 15 | ‘ If I arrested all of them who deserved to be put under arrest , then I 'd have no one left , ’ was the reply . |
| 16 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 17 | Some analysts claimed that the system intensified work discipline and stress ; for supporters , EPoSS enabled management to identify staff who needed to be withdrawn for ‘ training ’ . |
| 18 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 19 | Since a great proportion of them were engaged in growing corn and other basic needs of life , there must already have been a considerable proportion of the European population who needed to be fed by the labour of others . |
| 20 | We began to treat him like a strange alien person who need to be over-protected , who needed to be shielded from outsiders and the press . |
| 21 | But it was not only the women of England , with their crinolined frailties , who needed to be shielded from the details . |
| 22 | The final entrance was that of a huddled figure who needed to be carried into the room . |
| 23 | The Gentile world was full of gods , local regional deities for the most part , who needed to be placated with sacrifices to ensure good crops , fertile spouses , successful commercial ventures , or even military victory for the emperor 's army . |
| 24 | The Local Government Act , 1972 , allowed local authorities to choose between district auditors and private auditors ( who needed to be approved by the secretary of state ) but the Local Government Finance Act , 1982 , removed an authority 's right to choose its own auditor . |
| 25 | Rohmer began to make shushing noises as if Gilbert was a child who needed to be restrained for sleep . |
| 26 | But serious or lighthearted Central News always brought you the offbeat , like the catfish who loved to be fed by hand . |
| 27 | The parents of a young girl who died after being treated with steroids have welcomed the news that fresh warnings about the drug 's side effects may be on the way . |
| 28 | Relatives of seven mental patients who died after being discharged from hospital have been told that they WILL after all be consulted at an inquiry into the deaths . |
| 29 | THE families of five partygoers who died after being trapped in a house fire yesterday asked the High Court to order a fresh inquest into the tragedy . |
| 30 | INQUEST PLEA : Families of five party-goers who died after being trapped in fire on third floor of house without fire escape in Hove , east Sussex , asked High Court to order fresh inquest into the tragedy . |