Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Twenty youths were killed running to help two people who had been crushed by armoured vehicles on Student Square , said the agency . |
| 5 | His doubts about the nature and value of contemporary society were frequently expressed also in the Criterion ; in the issue of October 1935 , for example , he had talked about the plight of Papuan natives who had been corrupted by Western civilization . |
| 6 | It enabled Bush , who had been criticized for excessive prioritization of foreign policy , to demonstrate concern for and involvement in domestic affairs , and to demonstrate a commitment to civil rights at a time when Duke 's gubernatorial candidacy in Louisiana [ see above ] had embarrassed the Republican party . |
| 7 | Like all left-wingers , Lowe loathed Wilson , who had been elected in 1974 on the back of the wave of industrial militancy which culminated in the miners ' strike of that year . |
| 8 | She was a quietly-spoken old lady who had been retired for seven years . |
| 9 | On these occasions those temporary workers recruited were ex-employees — those who had been dismissed in recent downturns and who had been unable to find a new job . |
| 10 | In June Hubert Ingraham , another former minister who had been dismissed in 1984 [ ibid. ] , was elected leader of the opposition Free National Movement ( FNM ) after the death on May 9 , 1990 , of its former leader Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield [ for whom see also p. 35373 ] . |
| 11 | One of the four who died was Kevin O'Donnell , who had been acquitted in 1991 in London on gun-running charges . |
| 12 | A former Armed Forces Minister , Maj. Umaru Djalo , who had served under President Luis de Almeida Cabral , who had been overthrown in 1980 by the coup bringing President Joao Bernardo Vieira to power , sought asylum at the same time . |
| 13 | Reports were coming from all over the country of different children who had been adopted by this kindly old lady . |
| 14 | It emerged much later that the first casualties had been on Thursday night — Konserven , one at Gleiwitz , six at Hohnlinden — who had been dressed as Polish soldiers and shot . |
| 15 | Examples include a member who was in partnership with an individual who had a criminal conviction for fraud ; four members who had been charged with criminal offences ; a bankrupt ; and a member who had been disqualified as a company director . |
| 16 | We lesser mortals who had been banished to such places as Wolverton were , however , less fortunate . |
| 17 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 18 | All of that would have been well known to the Ephesians , who had been converted from false gods who had no glory , to be followers of the one true God whose glory had been demonstrated in the splendour , the brightness and the beauty of the Saviour . |
| 19 | And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence . |
| 20 | The stone free interval was greater , however , in patients whose primary gall stones had been dissolved with chenodeyxholic acid ( median 14 : range 1–80 months ) than in those who had been treated with ursodeoxycholic acid ( median 4 : 1–24 ) . |
| 21 | From the clinical database of 75 trials held by Glaxo , who manufacture sumatriptan , 375 asthmatics have been identified who had been treated for 1214 migraine episodes . |
| 22 | Honasan , who had been implicated in several coup attempts against Ramos 's predecessor , Corazon Aquino , had been in hiding since 1988 , after escaping from a prison ship moored in Manila Bay [ see p. 36428 ] . |
| 23 | On Oct. 7 the Iranian government released Jon Pattis , 54 , an engineer who had been sentenced to 10 years on spying charges in 1987 . |
| 24 | MAHA Sa'ad-ul-Din Banat , a 35-year-old Syrian national and mother of four who had been sentenced to 200 lashes by the Shari'a Court of Expedient Affairs in Riyadh on 10 March 1992 , received the lashes in four instalments in a one month period between April and May . |
| 25 | The prisoner who died in May [ ibid. ] was José Manuel Sevillano Martín , who had been sentenced to 24 years ' imprisonment in 1986 on a number of charges including robbery with menaces , membership of an illegal armed group and illegal possession of arms . |
| 26 | Arne Treholt , 49 , who had been sentenced in mid-1985 to 20 years ' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Iraq [ see p. 34113 ] , was pardoned on July 3 on health grounds ; his second wife had died earlier in the year and he was reportedly suffering from depression . |
| 27 | In November 1989 Ben Ali granted a presidential pardon for humanitarian reasons to two of Bourguiba 's close aides , Mansur Skhiri and Mahmoud Belhassine , who had been sentenced in 1988 to seven years ' imprisonment and 10 years ' forced labour respectively for misappropriation of public funds , bad management and embezzlement ( for their arrest see p. 35801 ) . |
| 28 | We eventually managed to reconcile the figures , when we took into account the large number of people who had volunteered to serve on regular engagements in order to participate , but who had been trained as territorial soldiers . |
| 29 | Torumtay , who had been appointed in mid-1987 [ see p. 35910 ] , was replaced on Dec. 4 by Gen. Dogan Gures , hitherto Ground Forces Commander [ see p. 37592 ] , who was in turn succeeded by Gen. Muhittin Fisunoglu . |
| 30 | Giorgos Balafas , who had been sought for seven years in connection with crimes committed by November 17 and another urban guerrilla group , Anti-State Struggle , had been arrested on Nov. 1 . |