Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had been [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of young activists who had been involved in internal politics since 1976 were also elected . |
| 2 | The armed forces continued to be split , chiefly over the issue of the treatment of soldiers involved in the " dirty war " of 1976-83 and in more recent military rebellions , with former officers such as Aldo Rico and Mohamed Alí Seineldin who had been involved in 1987-88 rebellions keeping a high public profile despite their pardoning and subsequent dismissal from the Army in October 1989 [ see p. 36972 ] . |
| 3 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
| 4 | ‘ Was that why you told Danny she shaved ? ’ asked Camille , who had been present on that occasion . |
| 5 | Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition . |
| 6 | Although Alex Salmond was chided by party activists during the march , the turnout of around 5,000 buoyed up party managers who had been fearful of low attendance after the MPs ' decision to vote with the Government last Monday night in the Commons in exchange for party representation on the Committee of the Regions . |
| 7 | … his wretched father , who had each year sunk lower and lower in the underworld , had been a gentleman once , a man who had been familiar with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good breeding . |
| 8 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
| 9 | It was totally unbalanced — there were ten or so Labour people , and about four hundred Conservatives — it sat for about three hours every day , and there were a great number like Halifax , Salisbury , Beaverbrook who had been prominent in political life . |
| 10 | She replaced John Cain , who had been Premier since 1982 when the ALP had regained power within the state after 27 years in opposition [ see p. 31634 ] . |
| 11 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 12 | Already after the first raid in August 1943 , SD agencies in Lower Franconia reported widespread shock and depression among the population , even among the previously ‘ reliable ’ sections who had been convinced of German victory . |
| 13 | When Godoy was contemplating patriotism his enemy Ferdinand , who had been intriguing for French support for some months , put all his faith in Napoleon 's endorsement of the revolution of Aranjuez . |
| 14 | The MRF represented the interests of Bulgaria 's Turkish minority and Islamicized Bulgarians , who had been subject to widespread discrimination [ see pp. 36747 ; 36662 ; 36771 ] . |
| 15 | DeRoburt , 69 , who had been ill for several years , had been President of Nauru from independence in 1968 until 1989 , apart from short interludes in 1976-68 ( when he was Leader of the Opposition ) and 1986 . |
| 16 | The first two groups covered those under sixteen and over sixty-five years of age and young persons under eighteen who had been resident with British families , or in an educational establishment prior to internment . |
| 17 | The breakthrough came in 1980 , when we received a copy of a letter to Michael Heseltine from a former Labour minister who had been responsible for historic buildings under the previous government . |
| 18 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 19 | He thought it better not to mention it was he who had been responsible for both his accidents . |
| 20 | The bulletins were written by Vincent Hartnett , who had been responsible for Red Channels , and AWARE was backed by Laurence Johnson , a supermarket owner with influence on the sponsors of radio and TV programmes , since their products were often sold through his chain of stores . |
| 21 | Joxe 's position was taken by Philippe Marchand , previously a Minister-Delegate at the Interior Ministry who had been responsible for Territorial Collectivities and Civil Security . |
| 22 | The fans and musical instruments which become recurrent themes in the still lifes were part of the equipment or decoration of many typical advanced studios in Montmartre ; Braque who had been responsible in 1908 for the introduction of musical iconography into Cubist painting was furthermore seriously interested in music . |
| 23 | That Germany did join the Schuman Plan had much to do with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer , who had been interested in European unity between the wars . |
| 24 | The junior church , who had been instrumental in all the Christmas activities , were now looking for teachers . |
| 25 | The Medau Society has been an active member since we became a national governing body in 1952 — indeed it was a member of the CCPR staff , Kay Evans who had been instrumental in guiding us towards national recognition . |