Example sentences of "who [verb] be [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bernard Tapie , who had been appointed Minister for Towns in April 1992 [ see pp. 38870-71 ; 38820 ] , resigned on May 23 . |
| 32 | Gen. Jorge Zincke , a moderate who had been appointed deputy commander in November 1988 [ see p. 36346 ] and had worked towards restoring the Army to a professional and depoliticized force , was one of 12 senior officers retired , while seven were promoted ( making a total of 43 in the Army high command , about twice the pre-1973 level ) . |
| 33 | Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county , |
| 34 | In the capital , the certificate relating to Macdonald was received by John Dalrymple , Master of Stair , who had been appointed Secretary for Scotland by King William . |
| 35 | The breakdown in relations between President Said Mohammed Djohar and Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim , who had been appointed Co-ordinator ( head of government ) in January [ see p. 38706-07 ] , culminated on July 4 when Mohamed Taki was dismissed . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | He petitioned Leopold Il for the post of vice-kapellmeister , emphasizing his own track-record as a composer of sacred music ( a field in which Salieri , who had been appointed kapellmeister in 1788 , was not particularly proficient ) , but received no response . |
| 38 | On July 4 Gandhi promoted a number of junior ministers ( see pp. 36027-28 for previous portfolios ) ; D. L. Baitha was promoted to Minister of State for Defence Production replacing Chintamani Panigraphi who had been appointed Governor of Manipur a few days earlier [ see above ] ; Mahavir Prasad became Minister of State for Mines ; P. Namgyal became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Petrochemicals ; Sumati Oraon became Minister of State for Environment and Forests ; Radhakrishna Malaviya became Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs ; Saroj Khaparde was shifted from Minister of State for Health to Textiles ; Giridhar Gomango was given independent charge of the Communications Ministry ( following the death of the Communications Minister in May — see p. 36657 ) ; and Rafiq Alam became Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ( independent charge ) , a post which had been vacant since the January appointment of Moti Lal Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . |
| 39 | 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 ] . |
| 40 | Denmark also led the way in its conservation policies , with the archaeologist J. J. A. Worsaae , who had been appointed Inspector for the Conservation of Ancient Monuments in 1847 , working on a programme of survey and preservation . |
| 41 | The removal of entry quotas encouraged young people who had been denied access to universities in the last years of Nicholas to enter them under Alexander , with the result that students tended to be older and more politically engaged than they had been in the past . |
| 42 | The mother of an incontinent daughter , who had been lent money out of the DSS Social Fund to buy a washing machine , had the machine removed by a bailiff . |
| 43 | It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Third , the ‘ New English ’ settlers who had been given land by the Tudors in a number of plantations . |
| 46 | The Bologna appeal court in April 1991 quashed the convictions of Mario Tuti and Luciano Franci , who had been given life sentences in December 1986 [ see p. 34956 ] in connection with the 1974 bombing of the Italicus express [ see p. 26820 ] . |
| 47 | He had dropped the joviality , even dropped as well the slightly secretive air of one who had been given permission to tell , but not all . |
| 48 | In the first trial of members of the extreme left Red Army Faction who had been given refuge in the former East Germany [ see p. 37828 ] , Susanne Albrecht was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment by a Stuttgart court on June 3 . |
| 49 | In rural areas villagers had been detained and their houses had been burned in connection with land disputes , names were given of people held for up to 10 years without charge , and many who had been detained spoke of beatings in prison . |
| 50 | Charles V 's policy was to prevent this at all costs , and his candidate for Margaret 's hand was his brother Philip , who had been created Duke of Burgundy in 1364 . |
| 51 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 52 | Again , as I recorded in a fieldnote , this assistant chief exhibited aspects of what I could only then describe as ‘ institutional paranoia ’ , when he went on to deride an unnamed social scientist who had been allowed research facilities inside a police force ( unspecified ) . |
| 53 | Two German relief workers who had been held hostage in Beirut since May 17 , 1989 , were released on June 17 . |
| 54 | Fears had grown for the safety of Pringle 's former girlfriend , 21-year-old Leanne Rees , who had been held hostage in the house since Sunday . |
| 55 | On 21 September , the radio announced that Mussolini , who had been held prisoner in a mountain refuge on the Gran Sasso , in the Abruzzi , had been unexpectedly rescued by German parachutists and taken to Germany . |
| 56 | The courtiers ' most prominent associate there was a draper , Philip Malpas , who had been chosen alderman of Lime Street ward in 1448 only through royal influence . |
| 57 | Furthermore , an applicant who had been refused planning permission could appeal to the ministry . |
| 58 | Since Schorne was described in an episcopal record in 1273 as a subdeacon and became an incumbent with cure of souls at that time , it is probably wrong to identify him with the namesake collated by Archbishop John Peckham [ q.v. ] to the rectory of Monks Risborough ( Buckinghamshire ) on 24 September 1289 , a man who had been ordained subdeacon on the title of that benefice just twelve days earlier in Kent . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |