Example sentences of "who had been " in BNC.
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| 31 | The seat had become vacant as a result of the suicide of a senior offical of the ruling Zanu ( PF ) party who had been condemned by a commission of inquiry for profiting from a racket involving the unlawful resale of officially purchased vehicles . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | A 12-line , three sentence denial of the charges made by the tabloid New York Post , failed to satisfy Mr Rather 's critics , who had been promised a ‘ point-by-point ’ rebuttal of the accusations . |
| 34 | Von Karajan had been a member of the Nazi party , and saw no reason publicly to mourn musicians who had been persecuted ; Abbado by contrast is a left-winger whose mother was imprisoned by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish child . |
| 35 | Lord Aldington was asked what he knew about the Yugoslavs who had been repatriated by the British Eight Army 's V Corps while he was chief of staff to its commander , General Sir Charles Keightley . |
| 36 | ‘ 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 . |
| 37 | The undefeated Chicago Bears , who beat the powerful Philadelphia Eagles last week , had to deal only with the paltry Tampa Bay Buccaneers , who had been crushed the week before . |
| 38 | Calder , who had been expected to win his 22nd consecutive cap , feels he is short of fitness having spent September fulfilling a number of engagements in the aftermath of the tour . |
| 39 | Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps . |
| 40 | Before it left , the UN mission compiled information on 1,100 people who had been detained , were alleged to have been detained or who were said to be missing , back to 1977 . |
| 41 | This they did handsomely , leading the Round Robin qualifying rounds , defeating France , who had been strongly tipped , in the semi-finals and Argentina in the finals . |
| 42 | As workmen moved in to put up fencing yesterday , more demonstrators joined a small group of protesters who had been on a 24-hour vigil at the site . |
| 43 | Mr Garrod , who had been appointed head of geography at a Chesterfield school , was rushed to hospital by a passing motorist but never regained consciousness . |
| 44 | Ten Kurds who had been in detention were released from Haslar yesterday with permission to stay while their applications for political asylum are processed . |
| 45 | Last week , in contrast , a Florida jury cleared a vagrant accused of the rape of a 22-year-old woman who had been snatched from a Fort Lauderdale restaurant car park while wearing a white mini-skirt and , so the jury was informed , no underwear . |
| 46 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 47 | Mr Clarke unknowingly stole the thunder of Douglas Hurd , the Home Secretary , who had been intending to make a veiled public appeal for more cash for the police services in the law and order debate . |
| 48 | Selahattin Ozberk , who had been booked on an afternoon flight from Heathrow to Istanbul , will now be sent back next Tuesday evening unless another country can be found to accept him . |
| 49 | For example , emotional problems are often presented as justification for a person 's drunkenness , especially if they are female , and on one occasion a youth who had been involved in an accident but who had only just passed his driving test was let off with a caution by a policewoman in sympathy for his inexperience . |
| 50 | They both had that deathly pallor that showed on every soldier who had been wounded . |
| 51 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 52 | The blood was oozing out from the tip of his boot and his face had turned the usual grey colour of the soldier who had been wounded . |
| 53 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 54 | As we walked around the town I witnessed several incidents as girls who had been known to have collaborated with the German forces were seized by members of the Resistance and had their hair chopped off , to the jeers and cat-calls of those standing around . |
| 55 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 56 | Despite Lenin 's theory of national self-determination , the new Soviet Union still embraced the great bulk of the old imperial domains , including minorities like the Georgians and the Ukrainians who had been civilized for centuries before the denizens of what was to become Muscovy . |
| 57 | A legacy from Flying Officer D J L Andrews , who had been a Flight Engineer on Stirling and Lancaster aircraft and who remembered Sussexdown in his will , provided a major source of funds for the project . |
| 58 | Three of the ‘ Dainty Dozen ’ ( as the 482nd christened them ) who had been MT drivers during the war drove the party around in a 12-seater minibus that flew Union Jacks to warn the unsuspecting American public that they were not used to driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 59 | Artists who had been turned down ca n't expect assistance from a record company which already has a number of signed acts needing help and attention . |
| 60 | Malcolm , who had been told to look out for him by Steve , was impressed . |