Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To quote the same news report : ‘ Supporters who had been fierce rivals seconds before when Don Gillies fired in an 80th minute equaliser for Bristol , suddenly joined in a combined celebration . |
| 2 | The meeting was addressed by David Bellamy and by Gerry Wilson , a retired Canadian geologist who had been head geologist for Holannah , one of the biggest mining companies in the world , and who knew intimately the industry he attacked so fiercely . |
| 3 | This was the case with the small group who had been daily injectors of speed . |
| 4 | What they did have was the word ‘ Leeds ’ : often the only English word they knew , passed on to them by relatives who had been early immigrants . |
| 5 | These were a Tartar people who had been traditional enemies of the Lombards and the Eastern Empire at Constantinople for generations . |
| 6 | Simon Coyte , chairman of the recreation committee , welcomed guests and thanked Derek Offer who had been head groundsman for over nine years . |
| 7 | On April 23 Danov announced a criminal investigation against Faks , which was generally sympathetic to the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the former communists ) ; also placed under investigation were the parliamentary review Debati , for publishing on April 17 a list of Bulgarian diplomats who had been secret service agents , and the weekly Reporter 7 , for publishing the police file of an alleged secret agent . |
| 8 | His parents had known it as Andrássy after the Count who had been prime minister when that part of Pest was laid out . |
| 9 | In Slovakia the casualties ( at federal and republican level ) included the Civic Democratic Union ( formerly the Civic Democratic Union " Public against Violence " see p. 38831 ) , to which the outgoing Federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa belonged , and the Social Democratic Party in Slovakia [ see p. 38831 ] , whose list was headed by Alexander Dubcek , the outgoing Federal Assembly chair who had been Prime Minister at the time of the 1968 " Prague Spring " . |
| 10 | Members who had been earlier supporters of television were confirmed in their views ; those who had been uncertain found themselves in favour ; several original opponents became supporters . |
| 11 | Men who had been seasonal workers formerly began talking of going stone-gathering and ditching during the winter . |
| 12 | Free produce , like antislavery generally , received some publicity from the visit of Mrs Stowe and her husband in 1853 but ebbed in popularity when the Richardsons of Newcastle who had been prime propagandists for the movement had to withdraw in 1854 . |
| 13 | The rest included such experienced practitioners as Dr A H Marshall , a former treasurer of the city of Coventry , and T Dan Smith , a former leader of the city council of Newcastle upon Tyne — as well as Dame Evelyn ( Baroness from 1966 ) Sharp who had been Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government when Crossman arrived in 1964 ( Wood 1976:40 — 1 ) . |
| 14 | Only one patient who had been receiving NSAIDs was still anaemic and that was a man with rheumatoid arthritis whose haemoglobin concentration was 12.7 g/dl . |
| 15 | There was a tremendous release of tension , particularly for the people , the women who had been permanent workers as opposed to the students . |
| 16 | Ali Aref Bourhan , the Afar politician who had been Chief Minister of the territory before independence in 1977 , was on July 12 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment along with eight other people similarly convicted of plotting to overthrow the government [ for arrests following January 1991 coup attempt see p. 37946 ; for October 1991 hunger strike see p. 38565 ] . |
| 17 | At a meeting on July 23 , politicians who had been major figures in the pre-1980 period agreed to bring their respective political parties into a united front against President Mugabe 's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front ( ZANU-PF ) . |