Example sentences of "who [vb -s] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A suggested clause to be included in either the Articles or the subscription and shareholders ' agreement is : A director of the company who has been appointed to the board by a member or class of members pursuant to the Articles of Association to represent the interests of that member or class of members shall , notwithstanding any rule of law or equity to the contrary , not be considered in breach of his fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the company by reason only that in the performance of his duties and the exercise of his powers , he has regard to the interests and acts upon the wishes of that member or class of members when no honest and reasonable director could have formed the view that in so doing , the director was also promoting the interests of the company as a whole . |
| 2 | Harry Durrant , 92 , is one of only 24 veterans from throughout Britain who has been invited to RAF Marham in Norfolk . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | I find his thesis correct in general , but should like to add that the corruption which amounts to violence is likely to be suppressed in someone who has been trained to be a good little girl and can , as one of his own case histories demonstrates , express itself in other , less overt , terms . |
| 5 | The food service design consultant , however , is a professional man who has been trained to be a designer after having gained a varied experience in the food service industry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When the dust settled yesterday Michael Knighton , a thwarted professional footballer who has been elected to the Manchester United board , spoke bitterly of the vilification he claims to have endured since moving in on the club and Martin Edwards , the chief executive . |
| 8 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | AN EX-SERGEANT who has been confined to a wheelchair for more than a year was exercising in a hospital gym this weekend after a life-saving heart transplant operation . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | It is not a good idea simply to rely on advertisements in the local paper but far better to go to someone who has been recommended to you by a friend who has been successfully treated . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It won Mr Leigh , 50 , who has been married to actress Alison Steadman for 20 years , the prize as best director . |
| 15 | Alan Capper said there were no other parties involved and Anneka , who has been married to the theatre producer Nick Allott for five years , hoped the separation will not be permanent . |
| 16 | It is me , after all , who has been subjected to the direct marketing of my very soul . |
| 17 | Mr. Roth contended that it is inconceivable that a party who has been held to be merely negligent should be required to contribute to the damages payable by a party who has been found guilty of fraud . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Thereafter each student passes before the Chancellor , who says ‘ I admit you ’ and at that moment the student changes from being a graduand ( one who has satisfied all the requirements for a degree ) to a graduate ( one who has been admitted to the degree and is entitled to the privileges thereof including use of the designatory letters , e.g. BA , MSc or PhD ) . |
| 20 | If you are offered a full-time post by an employer who has been introduced to you via a nursing agency , you should consider the etiquette and ethics involved of leaving the agency to go to work for one of their clients , thus depriving them of their commission from employers . |
| 21 | ‘ Apparently it is virtually unknown for a Person who has been murdered to be found with closed eyes . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If Judge Galpin 's interpretation of the Act and the Rules is correct , it drives a coach and horses straight through an enormously important area of child protection within family relationships ; that is to say , the ability to prevent an abduction and the ability to prevent the possibility of an abduction , or to restore a child who has been abducted to the home where the child should be , unless or until the 21 days service or other abbreviated service has been effected , by which time it may be in certain cases far too late for the welfare of the child . |
| 24 | Later , we read that ‘ nothing … shall prevent a constable delaying taking a person who has been arrested to a police station if the presence of that person elsewhere is necessary in order to carry out such investigations as it is reasonable to carry out immediately ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ We want to play with what we 've got , ’ said Chic Stedman who has been restored to the club captaincy . |
| 26 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 27 | er up , one who 's been invited to one 's birthday party |
| 28 | Mo , one who 's been invited to one 's |
| 29 | And finally we impeached a man called Waddell who 's been boasting to everyone in Barlinnie Jail that he and another man did it . ’ |
| 30 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |