Example sentences of "who have be [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Durrant , 92 , is one of only 24 veterans from throughout Britain who has been invited to RAF Marham in Norfolk . |
| 2 | Let it get gamey and he 's erm Chinese assistant the person who has been assigned to sort of look after him and do his do his translating and things like that took it down and buried it cause they did n't eat rotten meat they did |
| 3 | Somehow I ca n't imagine a Park Avenue matron shelling out $200,000 to hang this startling pre-connubial portrait on her living-room wall — no matter that the work is executed by an artist who has been likened to Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol and called the genius of his generation . |
| 4 | Player-manager Roy McDonough , who has been confined to bed with flu for the past couple of days , is happy with the likes of Robert Hopkins , Steve McGavin , Gary Bennett , Paul Abrahams and himself from which to choose as the U's bid to launch a late bid for the end of season play-off phase . |
| 5 | Philip Jones Griffiths , a Magnum photographer who has been going to Vietnam for 23 years , say , s ‘ We used to joke that you can take the photographer out of Vietnam but not Vietnam out of the photographer ’ . |
| 6 | The stiff upper-lipped actor , who has been married to wife Mary for 51 years , was diagnosed as suffering from detached retinas 12 months ago . |
| 7 | It won Mr Leigh , 50 , who has been married to actress Alison Steadman for 20 years , the prize as best director . |
| 8 | It came from Tony Morrell , the Hartlepool-based athlete who has been preferred to Cram in the 1500 metres and whose fitness had been queried in some quarters . |
| 9 | Consequently they have been short of riders for their opening British League Division One matches , and for last night 's rained off home meeting with Wolverhampton they were due to use David Norris , who has been sold to Eastbourne for £15,000 , and use the rider replacement facility for Shirra . |
| 10 | Shit all over the floor and the walls , " said a twenty-one-year-old machinist who 'd been banished to Coventry 's notorious Woodend estate . |
| 11 | Mr McCrystal , 68 , of Langlands Road , Govan , appeared at many meetings and on television to argue that thousands of workers who had been exposed to asbestos were now being denied justice . |
| 12 | Tensions were raised on Jan. 26 when Achmet Sadiq , a leader of the Moslem minority who had been elected to Parliament in June 1989 but disqualified from the November election on procedural grounds , and another Moslem parliamentary candidate were found guilty of " inciting violence and dissension " and using the word " Turkish " in their campaign manifestos . |
| 13 | Two more Kurdish deputies who had been elected to parliament as members of the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP ) resigned from the party on May 29 , to continue as independents . |
| 14 | The Ukrainian federalist Mykola ( Nikolai ) Kostomarov , who had been banished to Saratov after the exposure of the Kirillo-Methodian Society in 1847 , became a Professor of History at St Petersburg University in 1859 . |
| 15 | His eldest son Theuderic ( 511 – 33 ) ruled from Rheims , and the sons who had been born to Chlothild , Chlodomer ( 511 – 24 ) , Childebert I ( 511 – 58 ) and Chlothar I ( 511 – 61 ) , ruled from Orléans , Paris and Soissons respectively . |
| 16 | Michael White of the Guardian likened Amaranth to Venus rising from the foam , Bruce Anderson to the spirit of enterprise , while Lord Wyatt of Weeford , who had been sent to Brighton for the Telegraph , wrote that he had been ‘ captivated ’ by a performance which by its daring and originality had brought an otherwise dull Tory conference startlingly to life . |
| 17 | His trained pet poodle who had been sent to Europe to reconnoitre the scene and steal Mark 's clothes . |
| 18 | Both the latter films were made by Walter Booth for Charles Urban , an American who had been sent to Britain in order to look after Edison 's interests , then set up on his own as a distributor and exporter of French and American films . |
| 19 | The finders of this bombshell were two Justice Department officials , Brad Reynolds and John Richardson , who had been sent to North 's office to look through papers relating to the shipments to Iran . |
| 20 | No such worries crossed the mind of the Prussian Major who had been sent to Brussels with news of the French advance and details of the Prussian response . |
| 21 | The 50 unarmed UN military observers who had been sent to Mogadishu in July remained in the country , although on Aug. 6 they were reported still to be unable to leave their compound due problems of transport . |
| 22 | Calley , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment , was eventually paroled after having served only three years . |
| 23 | Besides Djohar and Taki , the six other candidates were : ( i ) Prince Said Ali Kemal , a former ambassador , the grandson of the last Sultan of the islands and founder of the Chuma ( Islands ' Friendship and Unity ) Party ; ( ii ) Mohamed Ali Mroudjae , a former Prime Minister , of the Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès ; ( iii ) Mohammed Hassan Ali , a former Vice-President , now leader of the Moheli National Front ; ( iv ) Abbas Djoussouf , representing the Mouvement démocratique populaire ; ( v ) Mohammed Ali Mbalya of the Parti socialiste des Comores ; and ( vi ) Moustapha Said Cheikh , a Marxist standing for the Front démocratique , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup in 1985 , but who had been released from prison following Abdallah 's death . |
| 24 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 25 | No action was taken against Donald E. Lukens ( Rep. , Ohio ) who had been sentenced to prison for between 30 and 180 days and fined $1,000 in June for having sexual relations with a teenage girl below the age of consent [ ibid . ] . |
| 26 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 27 | In the fifties Khomeini attempted , vainly to obtain clemency for members of the Islamic fedayeen ( the precursor of Islamic jihad and Hezbollah which came to prominence in Lebanon in the 1980's ) who had been sentenced to death for assassinating prominent members of the Shah regime . |
| 28 | The Council of State on Jan. 20 , 1990 , granted an amnesty to 22 of those detained for their part in the coup attempt of Oct. 17 , 1985 [ see p. 34217 ] ; 16 were freed unconditionally , while the remainder , who had been sentenced to death and had had their sentences commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment , remained under house arrest . |
| 29 | As the M.D. indicates , he was a physician , and the committee specified that Griffith J. Griffiths , who had been appointed to Goldington district , and who later became the senior surgeon at Bedford General Hospital , should be co-opted in cases where major surgery was required . |
| 30 | There was the wife of a Communist who had been stabbed to death in Oslo . |