Example sentences of "who had been [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The veteran leaders of both of the country 's main parties , who had been personal political rivals since the 1960s , resigned their party posts during February-March . |
| 2 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 3 | Secondly there 's some of the nurses who were n't present at the meeting three weeks ago who had been present three years ago . |
| 4 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 5 | Mr Fuller , who had been married three times , dealt in second-hand cars and dabbled in property and building . |
| 6 | At that moment Captain Robins , who had been busy shouting orders , hailed Reid . |
| 7 | The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates . |
| 8 | The Human Rights Commission assigned to Tadeusz Mazowiecki , who had been Polish Prime Minister in 1989-90 , the task of collecting all " available and credible " information on human rights in Yugoslavia and particularly in Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 9 | They came complete with miniature versions of themselves , flawlessly self-assured offspring called Ben , Simon , Emma and Kate , who had been breast-fed dry sherry and even drier wit . |