Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] who [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the following week over 30 political prisoners were reportedly released , including a number of bodyguards and assistants to Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition figure who had been under house arrest since July 1989 . |
| 2 | Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition figure who had been under house arrest since mid-1989 , was permitted a visit by her husband , Michael Aris , and two sons during May . |
| 3 | This meant in effect that Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition leader who had been under house arrest since July 1989 , was removed as the party 's secretary general . |
| 4 | On the first anniversary of that invasion , when thousands of Czechoslovak demonstrators were dispersed on Mr Husak 's orders by the police with military support , he was awarded the Order of Lenin , the highest honour the Russians could give him , and his acceptance of it sealed his fate once and for all Within two years of becoming party leader he purged all but 26 of the central committee members who had been in office before the invasion . |
| 5 | A Council member who had been on the visiting party supported the statement and endorsed the Chief Officer 's leadership on the occasion of the visit . |
| 6 | You will remember that when we last spoke you said the Ramsbum , Gooseneck business was impossible , and that was even before I had met my colleague Blitherdick , the wine waiter who had been on holiday when I arrived . |
| 7 | The next was a city man , a former civil service clerk who 'd been in FAKOUM from the early days . |
| 8 | And he removed his hat and discussed for some minutes the shortcomings of his wife Rita who had been in the land-army when they met . |
| 9 | At the moment the fires began , Petr Zaichnevskii , a twenty-year-old Moscow University student who had been in prison since the previous year , managed to publish Young Russia , " the most bloodcurdling and extreme " of all the calls to action which circulated in the wake of the emancipation . |
| 10 | There was n't gon na be single parent families with three children , er living above an old age pensioner who 'd been in there from the word go . |
| 11 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 12 | A total of 118 union and student leaders who had been in internal exile since the declaration of the state of siege were reported to have been released on Nov. 27 . |
| 13 | When an army investigator went to interview Ronald Haeberle , the army photographer who had been with Charlie Company , Haeberle produced some horrific colour slides of the killings and said that he had included some of them in an illustrated talk about the war he had given to various clubs , teachers ' associations and youth groups . |
| 14 | Once in a while she went to a social club for air pilots who 'd been in hospital . |
| 15 | He felt a pang of jealousy , which was intensified when he remembered the smart army officers who had been at her husband 's memorial service . |
| 16 | Macmillan then flew back to Treviso to drop off the various Eighth Army officers who had been with him at the conference , had " a short chat " with Gen McCreery , and returned with Philip Broad to Caserta . |
| 17 | At a four-day show trial in May 1963 Wynne received an eight-year prison sentence but in April 1964 was conveniently exchanged for Konon Molody , or ‘ Gordon Lonsdale ’ , the professional KGB spy and member of the Portland spy ring who had been in prison with George Blake . |
| 18 | The strike was a show of solidarity with 3,500 workers in sherry production who had been on strike since the beginning of the month over pension rights . |
| 19 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 20 | It was Rufus 's younger brother Julius who had been in the same form as Adam , a rather dull , pompous boy , a sort of phoney intellectual , and they had never had much to do with one another . |
| 21 | The death of a remand prisoner was confirmed on April 3 and on April 5 a prison officer who had been on duty on April 1 died of a heart attack . |