Example sentences of "who [verb] be [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is pressing for an early meeting with Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd , who has been sent a copy of the survey . |
| 2 | Martyn Moxon , who has been granted a benefit in 1993 by Yorkshire , recently received the Society 's ‘ Cricketer of the Year ’ Award for 1991 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | But I sat in yesterday afternoon and I felt sorry for the man 's daughter who 'd been given a hymn the service . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | Nuala positively glowed , and for a few moments she looked like a child who had been given a present . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After six months Miloš made a ceremonial entry into Belgrade to parley with the newly appointed Turkish governor , Marasli , who had been given a mandate by the sultan to make concessions in order to pacify the Serbs . |
| 18 | As they approached the village , Mungo felt a little like a prisoner who had been given a taste of freedom . |
| 19 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 20 | For the Prime Minister , who had been thought a prisoner of factional forces inside and outside his party , the mufti 's appointment was a resounding declaration of independence . |
| 21 | ( One of the very few to leave for other employment was Emily Picken , who had been offered a post as matron of a children 's home . |
| 22 | Since the new constitution was enacted in 1937 , the prohibition on divorce has become so strict that couples who have been granted a nullity decree by Roman catholic canonical tribunals have found that they may still not be recognized as single by the state , and are thus unable to remarry in the Republic . |
| 23 | Virgin had , to a large extent , been built on Branson 's abilities at man-management and manipulation — his unrivalled capacity , as one friend put it , ‘ to get people to do things for him , and feel that they are the ones who have been done a favour ’ . |
| 24 | Striding out for charity FIVE unemployed people who have been given a place on a training scheme at British Aerospace Airbus , Broughton , have decided to give something back to the community by a sponsored walk from Bangor to BAe Broughton over two days starting on June 24 . |
| 25 | They have teamed up with Instem Computer Systems , who have been awarded a sub-contract worth £3 million . |
| 26 | The man who 's been called a reincarnation of the legendary James Deans sighs and admits : |
| 27 | He says Anna is n't the right wife for a Plunkett — especially one who 's been given a university education so he can become a spokesman for our people . |