Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former senior minister who has been through many spending rounds says we take them all much too seriously , they are merely a mating ritual , he says , adding , and a barren one at that , no offspring . |
| 2 | Anyone who has been to such a gathering knows that the fun-loving atmosphere of these occasions is not ideal to hammer home messages about personal safety . |
| 3 | Ask anyone who has been to previous festivals and they will tell you not to miss it . |
| 4 | I am also grateful for the continuing support of the other Board members , particularly Michael Lunn who has been of great assistance to me in his capacity of Deputy Chairman . |
| 5 | But anyone who has been in close contact with Woody can only support him . ’ |
| 6 | Newbury 's assistant clerk of the course Richard Pridham , who has been in regular contact with Francois Doumen , gave an optimistic bulletin on the current track conditions . |
| 7 | Fighting for the other two places are England 's Trevor Steven , recovering from injury , and Mark Hateley , also back from injury plus Dutch winger Pieter Huistra , who has been in inspired form recently . |
| 8 | ALTHOUGH India 's selectors resisted the temptation to make wholesale changes after their disastrous tour of Australia , they did bring in two young batsmen who missed the trip : Ajay Jadeja , 21 , who has been in fine form for Haryana this season , and left-hander Vinod Kambli , 20 , who has already appeared in one-day internationals and made 262 for Bombay against Saurashtra recently . |
| 9 | Malcolm Cockbain , who has been in fine form for Birkenhead St Mary 's , fills the vacancy in a side to be led by Peter Mercer because of the unavailability of regular skipper Jeff Spence . |
| 10 | Someone who has been in residential care for a number of years may initially find independent living a frightening prospect . |
| 11 | ‘ We are certainly bearing in mind Nathan Munson , who has been in excellent form for the Youths over the last couple of months , ’ explained McDonough . |
| 12 | Parry 's thrust for the title had been predicted by a growing number of people , as , too , had been the challenge of Couples , who has been in wonderful form . |
| 13 | Yesterday , he produced his second extraordinary escape act in succession by coming from behind to win 10-15 , 9-15 , 15-13 , 15-12 , 15-10 , against an opponent who has been in both of the last two world title-winning teams . |
| 14 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 15 | At last we were able to talk to people who 'd been through this . ’ |
| 16 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 17 | And this was the day to do it the Women of the North lunch in Harrogate , like the Woman of the Year in London ‘ only much friendlier and more fun ’ according to a lady who 'd been to both . |
| 18 | We used we used to have someone who we used to know who 'd been in one of the big houses . |
| 19 | But I know of several people who having been in full-time Christian work have been prepared to get a secular job for a time , until the new church was able to support them . |
| 20 | So ghastly , that arrogance , that insensitivity of boys who 've been to public schools . |
| 21 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 22 | Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War . |
| 23 | Over the past three years , raids have been carried out as police target crack dealers who 've been behind many shootings and violent assaults . |
| 24 | The dressing room was charged with venom , jealousy , spite , and also total and undisciplined panic , which stemmed mainly from Stefan , who had been through most things with Gesner in the course of the various Seasons , but never anything like this ; never before an open confrontation between Gesner and the Direktor in the middle of a performance . |
| 25 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 26 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 27 | SIR — A 37-year-old man , who had been on total parenteral nutrition for 2½ years after excision of his small bowel for a mesenteric desmoid tumour , found this regimen unacceptable and sought a small bowel allograft . |
| 28 | And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done . |
| 29 | Uhde , a young collector and dealer who had been on friendly terms with both painters since the early pre-Cubist days , in a book entitled Picasso et la Tradition Française which appeared in both French and German in 1928 , stressed the cardinal part played by Braque in the formation of Cubism . |
| 30 | In the afternoon he visited various people who had been on friendly terms with the dead man . |