Example sentences of "who have been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis ( Cedar , £5.99 ) sets out a self-help programme for women who 've been victims of incest .
2 These trained workers are preparing the Ark centre , near Oxford for the arrival of youngsters , who 've been victims of sexual abuse .
3 She 's one of 27 pensioners living in the Aylesbury area who 've been victims of distraction burglaries in the past year .
4 On Oct. 15 , 1989 , a controversial retrial of 15 Islamic extremists ( who had been associates of Bouiali-see above ) was abandoned after the defence had successfully argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case following the Supreme Court 's refusal to do so .
5 Within three months , the epidemic strain was cultured from 3 other patients ( M30 , M32 , and M34 ) who had been inpatients over the Christmas period , and had had close contact with patients M8 and M10 .
6 The commercial department of the Central Authority was staffed at the top by three ex-CEB men who had been experts in the complex bulk tariff rules laid down in 1926 to secure equity between independent undertakings : a job which no longer existed .
7 The four , who had been members of the late President Sukarno 's palace guard , were shot by firing squad in Jakarta , despite widespread pleas for clemency from the international community .
8 Three candidates who had been members of the CNC , Nadjita Ngororo , Doungous Kimto and Bobekreo Tchimne , were also defeated .
9 The arrest of three police officers and two military captains who had been members of the elite UESAT unit of the Panamanian Defence Forces commanded by the former dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega , led to suggestions that a serious coup attempt had been intended , and that it had enjoyed wide support from the police .
10 On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association .
11 As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers .
12 After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations .
13 What he overheard provided his first insight into the intimate sentiments of mature Fists who had been warriors for over seventy years — as the seven long-service studs on the craggy , crewcut forehead of each star-knight signified .
14 Asked for her views on the exhibition , one elderly woman who had been friends with many of the Expressionists described it as ‘ both exciting and deeply moving ’ .
15 Some 580,000 Estonians took part , exclusively people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Estonia and their descendants ; most of Estonia 's political parties fielded candidates , some with Popular Front endorsement .
16 Ahead of the Latvian Supreme Soviet session , the radical nationalist National Independence Movement organized on April 30-May 1 a rival " Congress of Latvia " , elected in privately organized elections in which only people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Latvia and their descendants were eligible to vote .
17 The middle-aged married couple who had been caretakers before him had been dismissed on the spot for gross drunkenness .
18 If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted .
19 As Henry signs the new treaty at the French court , the camera moves in to a close-up as he recalls the faces of the people who have been friends to him in more dissolute days , and have now followed him into battle .
20 As for us , we have your story , we have a saint who has made her way back to us by strange ways , and we have those who have been friends to her on that journey , and may well believe , as you believe , that the lady has been in control of her own destiny , and choosing her own friends and her own dependants .
21 Should a member wish to put forward a resolution for discussion at this meeting , is must be signed by not less than ten members of the National Trust who have been members since 1 January 1990 or earlier and must reach the Secretary at 36 Queen Anne 's Gate , London SW1H 9AS not later than 15 June .
22 MOTORISTS who have been members of the RAC for 50 years or more are to receive special awards .
23 The hardest task of all may be that of people choosing to live alone who are either disabled or who have been members of an institution .
24 there are many people and probably a few of you here tonight , who have been members of the Church for a long time .
25 The Manager of the year awards are open to Domino 's staff who have been managers for more than nine months .
26 Can he give any indication of whether at that meeting he expressed the British Government 's support for the United Nations human rights sub-commission report in relation to the expressions of concern about the violations of human rights in Tibet , and what proposals did he make to help the many thousands who have been refugees from Tibet in the past 30 years ?
27 Similarly , parents of children who have been victims of sexual offences may not want their child to be interrogated and to go through the trauma of reliving the experience in court .
28 Victim or victimisation studies are designed to investigate the number of individuals who have been victims of crime .
29 Not so , says Helen Peggs , spokeswoman for Victim Support , which aims to support those people who have been victims of crime .
30 How has the power of this system of classification been dealt with by those who have been victims of its perverse games of inclusion and exclusion ?
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