Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [pron] had been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After examining the photographs , Mr Hayden recognised William Terris who had been murdered in about 1900 in The Strand which lies just around the corner from Covent-Garden Underground Station . |
| 2 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |
| 3 | On Dec. 6 Ershad was forced to relinquish power and handed over control of the government to Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been nominated as Acting President by the main opposition alliances . |
| 4 | President : Abdur Rahman Biswas , formerly Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad , was elected by its members in October 1991 to replace Acting President Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been sworn in as head of a transitional Council of Advisers in December 1990 [ see pp. 37907 ; 38152 ; 38533 ] . |
| 5 | On July 1 the government ordered the re-arrest of all convicted members of the pro-PPP militant organization Al Zulfiqar who had been released under the orders of the government of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto . |
| 6 | The new government has also moved to scrap school textbooks developed under the Sandinistas and has imported textbooks from Costa Rica which had been produced with USAID assistance . |
| 7 | Dai Qing , a journalist on the intellectual newspaper Guangming Ribao who had been imprisoned for 10 months after the 1989 crackdown , and Hou Xiaotian , wife of the imprisoned dissident Wang Juntao , were detained by police for four and two days respectively after being contacted by US embassy officials to arrange a meeting during the visit . |
| 8 | Another , now familiar , name that appeared in the minutes was that of Dr. N. R. W. Wynn-Williams who had been appointed to assist the medical officer for Great Barford district . |
| 9 | Jordi García Candau , a journalist and lawyer , was on Feb. 26 , 1990 , appointed director-general of Radio Televisión Española ( RTVE ) , replacing Luis Solana who had been appointed at the beginning of 1989 [ see p. 36776 ] . |
| 10 | Francisco Perdomo Sandoval was appointed as the new Interior Minister on July 31 , replacing Fernando Hurtado Prem who had been forced to resign on July 23 , apparently following a wave of protests after anti-riot police violently evicted 500 campesinos ( peasants ) gathered in the Central Plaza in Guatemala City . |
| 11 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 12 | Almost 69 per cent of the electorate of the Republic of Belau ( formerly Palau — see p. 30756 ) took part on Feb. 6 in a seventh referendum on the issue of the country 's compact of free association with the United States which had been negotiated in 1982 . |
| 13 | Her claims were backed by prominent politicians from the newly formed National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) [ see p. 39054 ] including Ghulam Mustapha Jatoi who had been appointed interim Prime Minister in August 1990 on Bhutto 's dismissal [ see pp. 37652 ] . |
| 14 | On March 20 , 1989 , Thanga Velly Rajeshwar ( Governor of Sikkim since 1985 — see p. 34680 ) was sworn in as Governor of West Bengal , replacing S. Nural Hassan who had been appointed Governor of Orissa in November 1988 [ see p. 36694 ] . |
| 15 | Earlier Costa Alegre had been elected as leader of the ruling Party of Democratic Convergence ( PCD ) , replacing Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio who had been dismissed as Prime Minister in April [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 16 | The libretto for the opera , Idomeneo , was based on a French text by Antoine Danchet which had been performed in Paris in 1712 with music by Andre Campra . |
| 17 | Sarup Singh was appointed Governor of Kerala on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Ram Dulari Sinha who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 18 | Many is the time I have been able at my grandmother 's table to lick my fingers after eating a cream coronet upon a precedent established by good Queen Mary who had been observed doing such a thing by no less than my grandmother when visiting the big house . |
| 19 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 20 | The only exception was the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes which had been formed in 1948 . |
| 21 | ‘ These people had been fighting against their own country , against Marshal Tito who had been recognised as an ally by the British Government , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 22 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 23 | However , the Independent Television Commission ruled that the adverts were more tongue-in-cheek rather than sinister or sexist and that , in any , case the Naomi Campbell one had been moved to a post-9pm slot . |
| 24 | He was no admirer of the casual Chief Inspector Jardine who had been wished on them . |
| 25 | On coming to power in Tbilisi , the new military council expressed its readiness to search for a negotiated solution to the problems in South Ossetia and , as a gesture of goodwill , on Jan. 7 released the Ossetian leader Torez Kolumbegov who had been held since January 1991 [ see pp. 37971 ; 38014 ] . |
| 26 | Montree replaced Siddhi Savetsila who had been removed as party leader in mid-1990 [ see pp. 37655-56 ; 37712 ] . |
| 27 | The mention of suspension is of interest : that the cause of it — truancy — is not only a 20th century phenomenon is shown by the next paragraph of the Report : " The parent of George Highton who had been suspended on account of frequent absence attended by order of the Deputation and stated that he had 3 boys in the School and that the one complained of was so refractory as to be beyond his management and would not attend as he should , frequently persuading his Brothers to follow his example and having gone into service he wished him to be dismissed , which was done , and the parent was informed that if the other two were not more regular in their attendance they would also be discharged . " |
| 28 | It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches . |
| 29 | C. Subramaniam was appointed Governor of Maharashtra on Jan. 31 , 1990 , in place of K. Brahmanadu Reddy who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 30 | But when he stepped out of the Humber Snipe which had been sent to pick him up he found that the building was in darkness and apparently deserted . |