Example sentences of "who [vb past] be [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On trial at Worcester Crown Court were thirty year old Jamie Ray , a Californian who 'd been staying in England , James Lovelidge from London who 's twenty seven and unemployed , and Michael Rock , a forty one year old French Canadian who was living in London .
2 Toledano replaced Rabbi Meir Kahane , who had been assassinated in New York in early November 1990 [ see p. 37872 ] .
3 On Feb. 21 Zhelev visited the grave at Whitchurch Canonicorum in Dorset of Georgi Markov , the Bulgarian dissident writer who had been assassinated in London in 1978 by the Bulgarian secret police by means a poisoned umbrella tip [ see p. 32997 ] .
4 Dory Chamoun was unanimously elected as leader of the right-wing National Liberal Party on May 25 , in succession to his brother , Dany Chamoun , who had been assassinated in October 1990 [ see p. 37793 ] .
5 Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day .
6 Thus , for example , Japanese children who had been exposed in utero as a result of atom bomb detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki have shown a possible increased incidence of mental retardation , associated with small head size ( microcephaly ) and clear evidence of reduction in body size .
7 Alann Steen , a US national who had been kidnapped in January 1987 [ see p. 35024 ] , was released by the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine on Dec. 3 .
8 Frank Reed , the US director of the Lebanese International College who had been kidnapped in Beirut in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , was released into Syrian custody in West Beirut on April 30 .
9 In April 1974 four soldiers who had been sentenced at the Skhirat trial and a civilian who had been kidnapped in Tunisia , Houcine Manouzi , were brought to our jail .
10 The plight of the girl was discovered after her dad , who had been living in Spain , contacted the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin .
11 An English poet , Harry Fainlight , who had been living in New York dropped in .
12 His eldest son James , who had been living in Stirling castle , was persuaded to join the malcontents .
13 The refugees were Sudanese who had been living in camps in Ethiopia 's Ilubabor region since fleeing the war in southern Sudan in the mid-1980s .
14 It was reported on Nov. 17. 1989 , that Sylvain Bamba , a former permanent under-secretary at the Ministry of the Interior and Justice who had been living in exile since 1963 , had announced the formation of an opposition Union for Congolese Democracy ( Union pour la démocratie congolaise — UDC ) , with himself as its chairman .
15 President Francesco Cossiga , 63 , who had been elected in July 1985 , had made it clear that he would not be standing for re-election .
16 Havel , who had been elected in December 1989 to serve in an interim capacity [ see p. 37107 ] , was the sole candidate ; a number of other individuals had been disqualified , not having been nominated by parliamentary deputies , while Stefan Kvietik , nominated by the Slovak National Party , had withdrawn .
17 William " Stanley " Usher , who had been elected in September 1989 as an opposition UDP representative , was expelled from the party on Dec. 13 , 1989 , and joined the ruling PUP ; he had signalled his support for the PUP immediately after the general election .
18 Mihai Lupoi , who had been dismissed in February 1990 as Minister of Tourism in the provisional NSF government [ see p. 37251 ] , applied for political asylum in Switzerland on July 5 .
19 In Brown v Rentokil Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 4 , the EAT ruled that an employee who had been dismissed in accordance with sickness absence rules when she was away from work because of pregnancy-related illness , was not discriminated against .
20 The following day the Supreme Soviet 's Presidium appointed as acting RIB chair the former chair of the USSR State Bank , Viktor Gerashchenko , who had been dismissed in August 1991 for alleged complicity in the coup .
21 Ianthe , who had been thinking in terms of daffodils and lemon barley water , had not seen herself being so practical .
22 The defeat of Solarz and of Chester G. Atkins , a Democrat representing Massachusetts , brought the total of incumbents in the House who had been defeated in primaries to 19 , the highest number since 1945 .
23 Of a further 2,217 people who had been charged in court by March 12 , over half had been sentenced to prison terms .
24 The most significant scandal concerned George Koskotas , who had been charged in November 1988 with forgery and the embezzlement of US$200,000,000 from the Bank of Crete , but had escaped to the United States where he remained in custody awaiting extradition [ see p. 36562 ; see also pp. 36527 ; 36822 ; 36902 ] .
25 Dr Ursula Blackwell , who had been born in India interested me .
26 He knew which cinemas occasionally showed good films , and which cinemas never ; he knew about a painter who had been born in Northam , and whose work could be seen in a room at the Public Library .
27 So did that of Emanuel Shinwell , the son of a Jewish tailor of Polish origin , who had been born in London 's East End , but whose family later settled in Glasgow .
28 Over the Irish Sea , an Irish Republican who had been born in New York , U.S.A. — and therefore , legally an American citizen — Eamon De Valera , became President of the Irish Free State .
29 But Horowitz , who had been born in Hungary , was no slouch himself at communications .
30 He was the younger son and youngest of three children of John Lambden Ross , described as ‘ of independent means ’ on the birth certificate , who was of mixed Scottish and Latin American blood , born in Havana , and his wife Gertrude Mary Pollok , who had been born in Calcutta , the daughter of a colonel in the Indian Army .
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