Example sentences of "who had been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 2 | In Northern Ireland Constable Louis Robinson , an off-duty member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary who had been on sick leave for three years , was kidnapped from a minibus at an IRA roadblock near the border at Killeen , South Armagh , on Sept. 15 . |
| 3 | It was his first encounter with Zhou , director in Hong Kong of the New China News Agency , who had been on sick leave ; it had been billed as a " get to know you " meeting , which would sidestep controversial issues . |
| 4 | At this moment the King , who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook , called out , ‘ Silence ! ’ and read out from his book , ‘ Rule Forty-Two . |
| 5 | After victories on Saturday over Cotswold and Victoria ( Street ) , the Ely team of Stewart Seymour , Kevin King , David Bell and Greg Harlow had a quarter-final success yesterday against Victory ( Portsmouth ) and were always in control in their semi-final against Moonfleet Weymouth , who had been in sharp form earlier against Torbay , Preston ( Brighton ) and County Arts Norwich . |
| 6 | Elliott began to take things easy and Reveille Boy , who had been in hot pursuit for some time , reduced the gap . |
| 7 | A total of 118 union and student leaders who had been in internal exile since the declaration of the state of siege were reported to have been released on Nov. 27 . |
| 8 | They then lost Gatting , who had been in better form than anyone , in the first one-day international when his nose exploded after coming into contact with a ball from Marshall that he failed to hook . |
| 9 | Al-Shazli , who had been in voluntary exile since 1978 , was to appeal [ for his return and arrest in March see p. 38840 , where his surname is erroneously given as Chazli ] . |
| 10 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |
| 11 | Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place . |