Example sentences of "who had be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This process of role retreatism that follows from status denial has been described particularly graphically by Riseborough in his study of a group of middle-aged , male secondary modern teachers who had been reorganized into an academically dominated comprehensive .
2 Among them was Carmen Azzopardi , who had been racked with guilt after turning down a request from Bernadette to mind Farrah .
3 ( 1977 ) found that those women who had been separated from either or both of their own parents in the context of a disrupted early family life interacted with their babies considerably less than the rest of the mothers .
4 The perpetrator , the young Rugby lock , Smith , got away with a stern lecture from referee Steve Lander , who had been alerted to the incident by his touch judge .
5 They shouted at him and he rode off on a bicycle , later to be stopped by the police who had been alerted to the incident .
6 Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune .
7 Two guards , who had been alerted by the gunfire , ran towards the gates .
8 The press , who had been alerted by an anonymous call to Reuters the previous day by one of the assassins , were out in force , waiting and hoping to get an exclusive of an assassination , or at least an attempted assassination , for the morning papers .
9 At one point the fuller figured female — Holly-jack — came up to Oak-elder , crouched , staring at Tallis , who had been alerted from her drowse .
10 On Feb. 21 Zhelev visited the grave at Whitchurch Canonicorum in Dorset of Georgi Markov , the Bulgarian dissident writer who had been assassinated in London in 1978 by the Bulgarian secret police by means a poisoned umbrella tip [ see p. 32997 ] .
11 Toledano replaced Rabbi Meir Kahane , who had been assassinated in New York in early November 1990 [ see p. 37872 ] .
12 Dory Chamoun was unanimously elected as leader of the right-wing National Liberal Party on May 25 , in succession to his brother , Dany Chamoun , who had been assassinated in October 1990 [ see p. 37793 ] .
13 Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day .
14 On the Unionist side men who had been fed with the heady talk of absolute resistance mobilized to resist what they now saw as the sell-out of the Southern Irish Unionists .
15 on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day .
16 In this case , workers who had been employed on a intermittent basis for a number of years were found to have been continuously employed ( albeit with temporary cessations due to shortages of work ) and thus , when finally dismissed , entitled to full redundancy compensation .
17 So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College .
18 The visitors , who included several who had been employed at RHS in its early days , were welcomed to the service by the school chaplain , the Rev Kevan McCormack , who referred to the support given to the school by many local people over the years .
19 She was his housekeeper who had been employed by the family for 52 years .
20 Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim .
21 Five ( 9% ) of the 54 cases and 14 ( 4% ) of the 324 controls had fathers or mothers , or both , who had been employed by the nuclear industry ( relative risk 2.2 , 95% confidence interval 0.6 to 6.9 ) .
22 The scientific basis for these reductions was the latest research findings on the health of the 90,000 people who had been exposed to the radiation from the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs and were still alive .
23 They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia .
24 It was true , they thought , still looking at him : he was a married man who went homo-ing about , who had been exposed to his wife when Timothy Gedge was drunk .
25 Doubt has been cast on a study which suggested that children of fathers who had been exposed to low levels of radiation in the course of their jobs were more likely to develop leukaemia .
26 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 .
27 He drew up a map of Scotland based on where the men lived and found the excess of cases in children from rural areas who had been exposed to those men .
28 Thus , for example , Japanese children who had been exposed in utero as a result of atom bomb detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki have shown a possible increased incidence of mental retardation , associated with small head size ( microcephaly ) and clear evidence of reduction in body size .
29 In April 1974 four soldiers who had been sentenced at the Skhirat trial and a civilian who had been kidnapped in Tunisia , Houcine Manouzi , were brought to our jail .
30 Frank Reed , the US director of the Lebanese International College who had been kidnapped in Beirut in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , was released into Syrian custody in West Beirut on April 30 .
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