Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [Wh pn] had been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After examining the photographs , Mr Hayden recognised William Terris who had been murdered in about 1900 in The Strand which lies just around the corner from Covent-Garden Underground Station . |
| 2 | On Dec. 6 Ershad was forced to relinquish power and handed over control of the government to Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been nominated as Acting President by the main opposition alliances . |
| 3 | President : Abdur Rahman Biswas , formerly Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad , was elected by its members in October 1991 to replace Acting President Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been sworn in as head of a transitional Council of Advisers in December 1990 [ see pp. 37907 ; 38152 ; 38533 ] . |
| 4 | On July 1 the government ordered the re-arrest of all convicted members of the pro-PPP militant organization Al Zulfiqar who had been released under the orders of the government of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto . |
| 5 | Dai Qing , a journalist on the intellectual newspaper Guangming Ribao who had been imprisoned for 10 months after the 1989 crackdown , and Hou Xiaotian , wife of the imprisoned dissident Wang Juntao , were detained by police for four and two days respectively after being contacted by US embassy officials to arrange a meeting during the visit . |
| 6 | Another , now familiar , name that appeared in the minutes was that of Dr. N. R. W. Wynn-Williams who had been appointed to assist the medical officer for Great Barford district . |
| 7 | Jordi García Candau , a journalist and lawyer , was on Feb. 26 , 1990 , appointed director-general of Radio Televisión Española ( RTVE ) , replacing Luis Solana who had been appointed at the beginning of 1989 [ see p. 36776 ] . |
| 8 | Francisco Perdomo Sandoval was appointed as the new Interior Minister on July 31 , replacing Fernando Hurtado Prem who had been forced to resign on July 23 , apparently following a wave of protests after anti-riot police violently evicted 500 campesinos ( peasants ) gathered in the Central Plaza in Guatemala City . |
| 9 | Her claims were backed by prominent politicians from the newly formed National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) [ see p. 39054 ] including Ghulam Mustapha Jatoi who had been appointed interim Prime Minister in August 1990 on Bhutto 's dismissal [ see pp. 37652 ] . |
| 10 | On March 20 , 1989 , Thanga Velly Rajeshwar ( Governor of Sikkim since 1985 — see p. 34680 ) was sworn in as Governor of West Bengal , replacing S. Nural Hassan who had been appointed Governor of Orissa in November 1988 [ see p. 36694 ] . |
| 11 | Its former director Willem Sandberg acquired the collection in 1951 from the German architect Häring who had been entrusted with the works after Malevich 's return from Russia to Leningrad in 1927 . |
| 12 | Earlier Costa Alegre had been elected as leader of the ruling Party of Democratic Convergence ( PCD ) , replacing Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio who had been dismissed as Prime Minister in April [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 13 | Sarup Singh was appointed Governor of Kerala on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Ram Dulari Sinha who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 14 | Many is the time I have been able at my grandmother 's table to lick my fingers after eating a cream coronet upon a precedent established by good Queen Mary who had been observed doing such a thing by no less than my grandmother when visiting the big house . |
| 15 | ‘ These people had been fighting against their own country , against Marshal Tito who had been recognised as an ally by the British Government , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 16 | He was no admirer of the casual Chief Inspector Jardine who had been wished on them . |
| 17 | On coming to power in Tbilisi , the new military council expressed its readiness to search for a negotiated solution to the problems in South Ossetia and , as a gesture of goodwill , on Jan. 7 released the Ossetian leader Torez Kolumbegov who had been held since January 1991 [ see pp. 37971 ; 38014 ] . |
| 18 | Montree replaced Siddhi Savetsila who had been removed as party leader in mid-1990 [ see pp. 37655-56 ; 37712 ] . |
| 19 | The mention of suspension is of interest : that the cause of it — truancy — is not only a 20th century phenomenon is shown by the next paragraph of the Report : " The parent of George Highton who had been suspended on account of frequent absence attended by order of the Deputation and stated that he had 3 boys in the School and that the one complained of was so refractory as to be beyond his management and would not attend as he should , frequently persuading his Brothers to follow his example and having gone into service he wished him to be dismissed , which was done , and the parent was informed that if the other two were not more regular in their attendance they would also be discharged . " |
| 20 | It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches . |
| 21 | C. Subramaniam was appointed Governor of Maharashtra on Jan. 31 , 1990 , in place of K. Brahmanadu Reddy who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 22 | Crues ' centre back Barry Hunter had snuffed out Newry 's only worthwhile goal attempt early on when he blocked an effort by Gary Hughes who had been put through by the clever Ollie Ralph . |
| 23 | Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay was appointed Governor of Rajasthan on Jan. 31 , 1990 , succeeding Sukhdev Prasad who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 24 | On Aug. 5 government forces secured the release of an aid worker from New Zealand who had been abducted on Aug. 1 by a gang operating in the west of Peshawar . |
| 25 | Krishna Kant was appointed Governor of Andhra Pradesh on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Kumud Behn Joshi who had been appointed to the post in November 1985 . |
| 26 | Factors in the resignation of Cardoso de Mello 's team — which had been responsible for the anti-inflation programmes of March 1990 and February 1991 — were variously said to include the unpopularity in business and banking sectors of their interventionist policies , the combative style adopted in negotiations with international debtors , recent clashes with members of the President 's inner circle , including regional development secretary Egberto Baptista who had been accused of malpractice , and Cardoso de Mello 's affair in 1990 with the then Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral [ see p. 37773 ] . |
| 27 | De Franco was appointed president of the Central Bank of Nicaragua replacing Raúl A. Lacayo Solórzano who had been criticized for his credit policies . |
| 28 | Eighteen days later Lord Keith saw another opportunity to help Mr. Dundas , for a number of new appointments were made in consequence of the commissioning of another captured French vessel , the Carmine , and George Dundas found himself Flag Lieutenant in the Minotaur in place of John Stewart who had been appointed acting commander of another vessel , whose commander in turn had assumed command of the newly commissioned ship . |
| 29 | It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously . |
| 30 | Diana packed her bags and joined her sisters and brother Charles who had been driven from Eton by his brother-in-law , Robert Fellowes . |