Example sentences of "who had be [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr McCrystal , 68 , of Langlands Road , Govan , appeared at many meetings and on television to argue that thousands of workers who had been exposed to asbestos were now being denied justice . |
| 2 | Tensions were raised on Jan. 26 when Achmet Sadiq , a leader of the Moslem minority who had been elected to Parliament in June 1989 but disqualified from the November election on procedural grounds , and another Moslem parliamentary candidate were found guilty of " inciting violence and dissension " and using the word " Turkish " in their campaign manifestos . |
| 3 | Two more Kurdish deputies who had been elected to parliament as members of the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP ) resigned from the party on May 29 , to continue as independents . |
| 4 | Calley , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment , was eventually paroled after having served only three years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 7 | No action was taken against Donald E. Lukens ( Rep. , Ohio ) who had been sentenced to prison for between 30 and 180 days and fined $1,000 in June for having sexual relations with a teenage girl below the age of consent [ ibid . ] . |
| 8 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 9 | In the fifties Khomeini attempted , vainly to obtain clemency for members of the Islamic fedayeen ( the precursor of Islamic jihad and Hezbollah which came to prominence in Lebanon in the 1980's ) who had been sentenced to death for assassinating prominent members of the Shah regime . |
| 10 | The Council of State on Jan. 20 , 1990 , granted an amnesty to 22 of those detained for their part in the coup attempt of Oct. 17 , 1985 [ see p. 34217 ] ; 16 were freed unconditionally , while the remainder , who had been sentenced to death and had had their sentences commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment , remained under house arrest . |
| 11 | There was the wife of a Communist who had been stabbed to death in Oslo . |
| 12 | The vacancy had been occasioned by the untimely departure of James Haldane , the professor of church history at St. Andrews , who had been burned to death in his room after retiring for the night leaving a candle burning . |
| 13 | Perhaps none of it was very good , but it was at least the beginning of something true in the lives of people who had been educated to falsity . |
| 14 | Moreover , 70 per cent of those who had been admitted to grammar schools left school at the minimum permitted age , namely fifteen . |
| 15 | 1 The patients studied were both male and female who had been admitted to hospital for elective surgery . |
| 16 | The length of the history in case 4 , who had been admitted to hospital with identical symptoms on three previous occasions suggests that either the polyps are extremely slow growing or that they may even regress . |
| 17 | On 18 February 1791 Granville Penn ( chairman ) supported by Rev Mr Cook , John Gretton , William Stone , Edward Topham and Huntingford , received information from Vial ( who had been confined to bed with a cold and fever , and had been unable to meet the committee 's delegation ) that he supported the amalgamation of the two plans , and that he would consult his patrons and subscribers accordingly . |
| 18 | Beer was the third member of the Red Army Faction ( RAF ) arrested in mid-1990 [ see p. 37828 ] who had been brought to trial . |