Example sentences of "who had be [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flaubert , on his way up the Nile in 1850 , found Esna much enlivened by the presence of ulmeh , literally " learned women " , prostitutes who had been banished from Cairo by Muhammad Ali some years before . |
| 2 | No election was held in the village of Sapinta , Maramures county , after clashes between supporters of the former mayor , who had been disqualified from standing , and those of another candidate . |
| 3 | Queen Anne 's former chief minister , Henry St John , Viscount Bolingbroke , who had been ousted from office by a Whig on George I 's accession , arrived in Paris that spring , to be followed in August by another influential figure , James Butler , Duke of Ormonde , who had succeeded Marlborough as Captain-General and had contemplated leading a military rebellion against the new king . |
| 4 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |
| 5 | Lij Yasu 's father was the ruler of Wollo , Ras Mikael , who had been converted from Islam to Christianity during the reign of the Emperor John , and had later married Menelik 's elder daughter , Shoaragad . |
| 6 | If we ask who the ‘ many people ’ were who had been saved from famine through Joseph 's foresight and planning , they were not merely Joseph , his father and brothers and their families , but all the people of Egypt . |
| 7 | It was alleged that Khashoggi , who had been extradited from Switzerland in April 1989 , had purchased four Manhattan properties secretly owned by the Marcoses and had backdated the sale documents to evade a New York court order which had frozen the assets of the former dictator and his wife . |
| 8 | Among the defendants was Licio Gelli , former grand master of the Italian P-2 masonic lodge [ see also pp. 31045-46 ] , who had been extradited from Switzerland in February 1988 after surrendering to the authorities there [ see p. 35591-92 ] . |
| 9 | He was quite a personable young man , but the Waaf I recognised instantly as the one who had been ejected from Hut 4 at Bourn for being dirty . |
| 10 | Even Jews who had been released from concentration camps on strict condition that they left the Fatherland immediately were obliged to pay for the round trip . |
| 11 | The election reaffirmed Mandela 's position as effective leader of the ANC ( whose 72-year old president , Oliver Tambo , was in Sweden convalescing after a stroke ) , with Sisulu , Mbeki and another veteran freedom fighter , Raymond Mhlaba ( who had been released from prison along with Sisulu in October 1989 ) now forming the core of the internal leadership . |
| 12 | Besides Djohar and Taki , the six other candidates were : ( i ) Prince Said Ali Kemal , a former ambassador , the grandson of the last Sultan of the islands and founder of the Chuma ( Islands ' Friendship and Unity ) Party ; ( ii ) Mohamed Ali Mroudjae , a former Prime Minister , of the Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès ; ( iii ) Mohammed Hassan Ali , a former Vice-President , now leader of the Moheli National Front ; ( iv ) Abbas Djoussouf , representing the Mouvement démocratique populaire ; ( v ) Mohammed Ali Mbalya of the Parti socialiste des Comores ; and ( vi ) Moustapha Said Cheikh , a Marxist standing for the Front démocratique , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup in 1985 , but who had been released from prison following Abdallah 's death . |
| 13 | On Jan. 24 Harminder Singh Sandhu , the general secretary of the All-India Sikh Students ' Federation ( AISSF ) and a leading advocate of the establishment of Khalistan , who had been released from prison on Dec. 4 , was assassinated in Amritsar , by , it was widely speculated , factions struggling for supremacy within the Sikh militant movement . |
| 14 | Dharsono , who had been released from prison in September 1990 after serving over four years of a seven-year sentence for subversion [ see p. 37715 ] , said that the FPPS had the support of some 70 leading intellectuals and dissidents . |
| 15 | Lt.-Col. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho , who had been released from prison on a legal technicality in 1989 [ see p. 36945 ] , in October faced new charges of involvement with the Popular Forces of April 25 ( FP-25 ) including a bank robbery in the 1980s . |
| 16 | Jan. 20 Radio Mogadishu reports that Siyad Barre has accepted resignation of government of Prime Minister Mohammed Hawadie Madar , and asked Umar Arteh Ghalib , a former Foreign Minister who had been released from house arrest to serve on the reconciliation committee , to form a government . |
| 17 | On Dec. 29 national radio reported the lifting of the state of emergency in North-West Province , stronghold of SDF leader John Fru Ndi , who had been released from house arrest by early December but was continuing to claim that he was the real election victor [ see p. 39179 ] . |
| 18 | Finally , in continuity with some elements of the earlier anti-slave trade argument , Buxton , Stephen and Clarkson all saw British pride in the achievement of abolition and the moral stature this accorded the nation , at least in its own eyes , as requiring the step of liberating those who had been stolen from Africa before 1807 and their descendants since the principle of hostility to man stealing remained the same . |
| 19 | Diana packed her bags and joined her sisters and brother Charles who had been driven from Eton by his brother-in-law , Robert Fellowes . |
| 20 | In one case , people had received radiation doses of 50 roentgens — four times that of those who had been evacuated from Chernobyl . |
| 21 | While the Commissioners were not drawn exclusively from within the Prison Service , by convention three key posts were reserved for people who had been promoted from prison governor grades . |
| 22 | The report chronicled the systematic destruction of the medical system , and included three accounts of the death of premature babies who had been removed from incubators [ see also p. 37927 ] . |