Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting was addressed by David Bellamy and by Gerry Wilson , a retired Canadian geologist who had been head geologist for Holannah , one of the biggest mining companies in the world , and who knew intimately the industry he attacked so fiercely . |
| 2 | This was the case with the small group who had been daily injectors of speed . |
| 3 | Simon Coyte , chairman of the recreation committee , welcomed guests and thanked Derek Offer who had been head groundsman for over nine years . |
| 4 | His parents had known it as Andrássy after the Count who had been prime minister when that part of Pest was laid out . |
| 5 | In Slovakia the casualties ( at federal and republican level ) included the Civic Democratic Union ( formerly the Civic Democratic Union " Public against Violence " see p. 38831 ) , to which the outgoing Federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa belonged , and the Social Democratic Party in Slovakia [ see p. 38831 ] , whose list was headed by Alexander Dubcek , the outgoing Federal Assembly chair who had been Prime Minister at the time of the 1968 " Prague Spring " . |
| 6 | Salah Khalaf , known by his nom de guerre of Abu Iyad , was considered to be PLO chairman Yassir Arafat 's closest and most influential aide , while Hayil Abd al-Hamid ( Abu al-Hol ) was the PLO 's chief of security ; the third man who died was Fakhri al-Umari ( Abu Muhammad ) , an aide to Abu Iyad . |
| 7 | Only one patient who had been receiving NSAIDs was still anaemic and that was a man with rheumatoid arthritis whose haemoglobin concentration was 12.7 g/dl . |
| 8 | Ali Aref Bourhan , the Afar politician who had been Chief Minister of the territory before independence in 1977 , was on July 12 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment along with eight other people similarly convicted of plotting to overthrow the government [ for arrests following January 1991 coup attempt see p. 37946 ; for October 1991 hunger strike see p. 38565 ] . |
| 9 | A recent study of the Gloucestershire gentry has shown that many of those from the knightly class who served were young men , whose elders carried the burden of local administration . |