Example sentences of "who [verb] be [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who agreed were given an envelope in which to seal their completed questionnaire before returning it to the member of staff . |
| 2 | Tai Solarin , an outspoken critic of the Government who has been appointed the Bank 's Chairperson , is happy that ‘ the Government has realized that structures operating in the country have not served the purpose of the ordinary people ’ . |
| 3 | A Sheriff Officer is a person in private practice who has been appointed an officer of the court but is not a court employee . |
| 4 | He is pressing for an early meeting with Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd , who has been sent a copy of the survey . |
| 5 | Next to Howard Hodgson , who has been called the tycoon of funeral directors . |
| 6 | Martyn Moxon , who has been granted a benefit in 1993 by Yorkshire , recently received the Society 's ‘ Cricketer of the Year ’ Award for 1991 . |
| 7 | This will include : ( i ) the mother ; ( ii ) the father if he was married to the mother when the child was born ; ( iii ) the father , if he was not married to the child 's mother when the child was born but he has since married her or now has a residence order , a court order which gives him parental responsibility or a formal parental responsibility agreement made with the mother in accordance with s4(2) of the Act ; ( iv ) a guardian of the child which in this context means a testamentary guardian appointed in accordance with s5 of the Act ; ( v ) anyone who holds a custody or residence order relating to the child ; ( vi ) a local authority which has a care order in respect of the child ; ( vii ) anyone who has been granted an emergency protection order ; ( viii ) in the case of an adopted child , the adopters in place of the natural parents . |
| 8 | A registered or occasional student who has been granted an intermission in his studies or leave of absence from his studies shall not be required to enrol for the period of intermission or leave . |
| 9 | Mike , who has been given a car and a house by his new employers , has yet to see his new surroundings , and it will certainly be a journey into the unknown . |
| 10 | Complaints are investigated by the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar , which considers a written report from a barrister who has been given the task of investigating the complaint . |
| 11 | Mr Lawrence Eagleburger , the deputy secretary of state who has been given the job of co-ordinating America 's help for Eastern Europe , was told by Congress that the money the administration has in mind is too modest , but that its ideas about who should control the distribution of this money are immodest . |
| 12 | Supposedly grown-up people that believe human beings can not practise safe sex and contraception , or that it is right to deny a 14-year-old girl who has been raped an abortion because it would be morally wrong in the eyes of God , are not living in the real world . |
| 13 | This must have given him great satisfaction for he used to refer to himself " as one who has been admitted a member of the great family of the deaf " , and described this family as " my people " . |
| 14 | But I sat in yesterday afternoon and I felt sorry for the man 's daughter who 'd been given a hymn the service . |
| 15 | There 'd been a master at Ravenswood , a man called Funny Stiles who 'd been given the sack because he 'd made boys presents of whistles and fountain-pens . |
| 16 | Ken Thwaites , who remembers being told the news in the asssembly hall at Normanby Primary School , recalls : ‘ The sad and important words were recognised , but what worried me more was would ‘ Boro 's FA Cup tie with Doncaster Rovers due that afternoon at Ayresome Park be postponed ? |
| 17 | Of twenty-one housewives who mind being labelled a housewife , nineteen ( eighty-six per cent ) are dissatisfied with work ; of the nineteen who ‘ do n't mind ’ this label , ten ( thirteen per cent ) are dissatisfied . |
| 18 | ‘ When one thinks of the number of miserably displaced children from broken homes who 've been given a sense of purpose by the Pony Club ’ Sukey was saying , then , lowering her voice , ‘ take Perdita Macleod . |
| 19 | It 's our members in these industries who 've been given a hammering since privatization and who need as much support as possible to give them the confidence to face further difficult years ahead . |
| 20 | The undefeated Chicago Bears , who beat the powerful Philadelphia Eagles last week , had to deal only with the paltry Tampa Bay Buccaneers , who had been crushed the week before . |
| 21 | This fuelled rumours that the murder was the work of the anti-Semitic Russian nationalist group Pamyat , from which Fr Men ( who had been born a Jew ) reportedly had received threatening letters . |
| 22 | When Hughes , who had been cheered every time he warmed up , was brought on with United 2-1 down , Ferguson again incurred the crowd 's wrath by bringing off Sharpe , who like all United 's young players is popular with the supporters . |
| 23 | Of his playing partners , Greg Norman was fined the same amount , but Ken Brown , who had been punished the day before , had to fork out £100 for a second offence . |
| 24 | Judge Gerhard A. Gesell ruled that Hopkins , who had been denied a partnership in 1982 because her colleagues considered her to be too " macho " , had been the victim of illegal " sex stereotyping " . |
| 25 | Nuala positively glowed , and for a few moments she looked like a child who had been given a present . |
| 26 | I have had difficult cases , like the woman who had been given a Caesarean operation : giving birth after that kind of operation is very delicate , but it turned out all right . |
| 27 | In Malette v. Shulman , 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 a Canadian court upheld an award of $20,000 to a patient who had been given a blood transfusion in order to save her life but against her known wishes . |
| 28 | Our neighbour , who had been given a key to check on our house while we had been away , had thoughtfully lit a fire to welcome us home . |
| 29 | David , who had been given a piece of her mind , returned sadly to a state of detumescence and made do with David Attenborough who at least was living vicariously . |
| 30 | The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest . |