Example sentences of "[noun pl] who had be [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Two German relief workers who had been held hostage in Beirut since May 17 , 1989 , were released on June 17 . |
2 | They were presumably responsible for supervising the civil settlement outside the fort and , in particular , the Sarmatian veterans who had been granted land in its vicinity . |
3 | The attack on Derek by the roughs who had been paid £3 each was worrying lest it should be repeated . |
4 | This was particularly the case with patients who had been given methadone reduction over a relatively long period of time , say two to three months . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Labov , by simply altering the test situation , such as by creating informality or having two youths to one researcher etc. , came up with far ‘ better ’ results for clever youths who had been labelled ESN ( educationally subnormal ) by the conventional system . |
7 | Sullivan also persuaded Bazargan to help obtain the release of a number of Americans who had been taken hostage in the listening posts that the US had manned along the soviet border . |
8 | To make sure that their knowledge of enemy military procedure was correct and up to date , Buck had also recruited a couple of Afrika Korps men who had been taken prisoner . |
9 | Third , the ‘ New English ’ settlers who had been given land by the Tudors in a number of plantations . |