Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun pl] who had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made up one of the ten elite ‘ Strike Force ’ teams , all top field operatives who had been siphoned off from police , military and intelligence services around the world . |
| 2 | Two German relief workers who had been held hostage in Beirut since May 17 , 1989 , were released on June 17 . |
| 3 | Menem signed six decrees on Dec. 29 , which were not officially released until the following day , pardoning eight former high-ranking Army officers who had been the architects of the " dirty war " of the 1970s . |
| 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 | Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki , Mandela 's veteran prison companions who had been released in Oct. 1989 and November 1987 respectively [ pp. 36964 ; 36074 ] after serving long prison sentences , were both re-elected to the executive , now enlarged to 34 members . |
| 6 | However , the original ‘ Biff Boys ’ , the hearty undergraduate types who had been trained by the Jewish boxer Ted ‘ Kid ’ Lewis , were now joined by others with more controversial opinions and methods ; in August 1932 a nineteen-year-old member of the New Party was convicted of sticking labels on shop windows in London 's Oxford Street urging the expulsion of the Jews from Britain . |
| 7 | The government announced that on April 15 it had arrested a group of soldiers and retired army officers who had been planning to overthrow the government . |
| 8 | On the Unionist side men who had been fed with the heady talk of absolute resistance mobilized to resist what they now saw as the sell-out of the Southern Irish Unionists . |
| 9 | On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association . |
| 10 | Thailand claims the Vietnamese withdrawal was not genuine , and on Monday a Foreign Ministry spokesman , Prachyadavi Tavedikul , said reporters would be shown five Vietnamese in Cambodian Army uniforms who had been taken prisoner by Khmer Rouge resistance guerrillas after Hanoi 's withdrawal deadline of 26 September . |
| 11 | Apart from anything else , his family came from Glasgow ( unlike twenty-five of the thirty-one Scottish lord lieutenants , Admiral Bryson had also been educated in Scotland ) , as several of the big Sussex landowners who had been hoping for the job quickly pointed out . |
| 12 | When the effects of gliadin derived peptides were tested over concentrations ranging from 10 to 200 µg/ml. no adenylate cyclase activation occurred in the homogenates from control subjects and in those from coeliac disease patients who had been treated . |
| 13 | No significant differences in mean basal glucagon and atrial natriuretic peptide values were seen among normal subjects and coeliac disease patients who had been treated and those who had not ( Table IV ) . |
| 14 | After a few minutes a barman came in and asked everyone to move outside with the other hotel guests who had been evacuated from the building . |
| 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 . |