Example sentences of "have be [noun] who " in BNC.

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1 Those who forget the virtues of solidarity in order to protest against the downgrading of individual agency might recall that it has been intellectuals who have been most prone to inflate the significance of individuals — particularly intellectuals — to the same degree that their theories propose universal categories and claim universal effects .
2 Well in the main lobbyist has been Ron who 's the who 's our elected campaigns officers and he 's quite literally been spending time treading the the hallowed halls of Westminster
3 It may actually have been Gandhi who was responsible for his optimism about this .
4 That must have been Lee who 'd put it there .
5 It was therefore natural that it should have been Braque who solved the present problem , largely a technical one , of finding a new , easier means of representing the new concepts of pictorial form and space in all their fullness and complexity .
6 Since also the percentage of assessments below £3 was much the same in Sussex as in Norfolk and Berkshire , a good many farm workers there might have been cottagers who had their own plots of land .
7 Yes , it could still have been Tutilo who finished what Jerome had begun . ’
8 Thus while those TANU members concerned to achieve effective communication for the purpose of education and development preferred the press to radio , whose full potential they failed to recognize , there may have been others who realized that radio had powers to reach people which TANU had not .
9 Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ?
10 Therefore Carol 's daughter is not Julie , whilst Donna was taken to see Mary Poppins , so it must have been Linda who went with Carol to see Jungle Book .
11 There must also have been readers who were led to reflect on Othello 's self-righteous murder of Desdemona , and to reflect that Shakespeare 's play expresses a view of mixed marriages which is both encouraging and discouraging .
12 ( It occurs to us that it may have been Durfey who sang Aeneas in the school production .
13 ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’
14 But some of them will have been men who lived permanently within their lord 's gates , his closest companions , who , after several years ' service , might hope to be rewarded with fiefs .
15 ‘ It could n't possibly have been Eddie who impersonated Delia and anyway there 'd have been no point when she lives in the same house as Angy . ’
16 Many will have committed sexual offences that other prisoners find abhorrent ; some will have been informers who helped the police in the hope of obtaining a shorter sentence and still others may have built up debts inside prison that they can not repay .
17 ‘ To be fair , ’ the prince pointed out generously , ‘ in this case it seems to have been Owen who took the offensive . ’
18 On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd .
19 The British critic Bryher regarded the film as ‘ the first authentic comment on the War ’ , praised particularly the depiction of enlistment , and poured scorn on those other British critics who had disliked the film 's suggestion that it had been America who had won the war .
20 However , it had been d'Arquebus who returned along that terrifying , tormenting tunnel … had it not ?
21 It had been Marcus who turned up at the Evans house on Saturday afternoon when Pascoe was there .
22 It had been DeVore who had befriended him .
23 Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling .
24 According to Lotta it had been Rune who had stormed out , taking the painting with him , which meant what ?
25 After all it had been Bliss who had warned him that Nadirpur was embroiled with the Pessarane Behesht , Bliss who had informed him that the real cargo was arms .
26 But even in their search , strictly speaking , it had been Peter who had succeeded and not he .
27 Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights .
28 ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’
29 It had been Conneau who , in fact , had made possible the famous escape in 1846 by maintaining the pretence of his patient 's illness on the appointed day , thereby preventing the prison governor from making his daily visit .
30 Yet it had been Eleanor who had started this war of words ; Eleanor who had tried to interfere in something that should have been none of her business .
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