Example sentences of "[noun pl] who had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not , however , immediately apparent to those photographers , instrument makers and lanternists who had been fired up to experiment with moving pictures after hearing reports of Edison 's Kinetoscope , the original what-the-butler-saw machine , or witnessing the first projection of films made by the Lumière Brothers in 1896 . |
| 2 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 3 | A few years later , however , the distant future showed every indication of having already arrived when these nagging anxieties grabbed the headlines around the large numbers of recruits who had been found unfit for service in the Boer War , and in spite of the half-hearted reassurances of the Physical Deterioration Committee of 1904 fears of racial deterioration were rampant . |
| 4 | The mob was demanding the eviction of Meshketians who had been temporarily rehoused in Parkent after being evacuated in February from other parts of Tashkent oblast ( region ) to escape pogroms against their communities . |
| 5 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War . |
| 6 | For Mordecai it was a symbolic birthplace , for he was a direct descendant from one of the millions of Jews who had been evacuated from the Middle East in 1990 . |
| 7 | Even Jews who had been released from concentration camps on strict condition that they left the Fatherland immediately were obliged to pay for the round trip . |
| 8 | Thirteen middle-ranking securities firms followed the example of the four largest houses by making available the lists of those clients who had been compensated and , like them , were subsequently fined by the Japan Securities Dealers Association . |
| 9 | The journalists who had been hired by him were based in Manchester . |
| 10 | The two guards who had been holding him released him and stood back . |
| 11 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , sociologists and anthropologists , including Émile Durkheim , were interested in the reports of travellers and missionaries who had been to parts of Australasia . |
| 12 | As he ended , there was an enormous cheer on our side and I saw one of our backbenchers who had been particularly critical over the weekend waving his order paper in enthusiastic support . |
| 13 | In a significant break with his predecessor , Mr Major offered junior and middle-ranking ministerial posts to several senior backbenchers who had been overlooked by Mrs Thatcher or had been kept out of her government . |
| 14 | With the fathers of the lads who had been raiding him , he swore solemnly before the earl and the other Lords of Council to abstain from mutual injuries and molestation , under a penalty of £500 . |
| 15 | Henri Nallet , then French Agriculture Minister , apologized to his UK counterpart , John Gummer , at a meeting in Brussels on Sept. 24 and assured him that lorry drivers who had been attacked in France would be compensated . |
| 16 | Three candidates who had been members of the CNC , Nadjita Ngororo , Doungous Kimto and Bobekreo Tchimne , were also defeated . |
| 17 | The secretary-general of the Council of Guardians , Ayatollah Rezvani , told Iranian television on May 7 that of candidates who had been disqualified in the pre-election screening , some 80 per cent had been rejected by the executive committees and some 20 per cent by the Council of Guardians itself . |
| 18 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties . |
| 21 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 22 | What Athens and Corinth had in common was perhaps the immigrant craftsmen who had been drawn to the cities in the salad days of their respective tyrannies . |
| 23 | The battle achieved a notoriety in America when Life magazine published the photographs of 241 GIs who had been killed there in less than a week . |
| 24 | Blackberry , the rabbit with tipped ears who had been startled by Fiver the night before , had listened carefully to Hazel 's description of the notice board , remarking that he had always felt sure that men left these things about to act as signs or messages of some kind , in the same way that rabbits left marks on runs and gaps . |
| 25 | She named the same two hand-maids who had been with me on my first visit . |
| 26 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 27 | For a brief time the descendants of those Highlanders who had been forced down into the valley to find work a century before had returned to the land of their fathers . |
| 28 | He was still under the shadow of a more famous British broadcaster in Berlin , Norman Baillie-Stewart , an officer of the Seaforth Highlanders who had been court-martialled and sent to prison for five years in 1933 for selling military secrets to Germany . |
| 29 | The distinction is not always easy to keep in mind : Lord Denning , Britain 's most experienced judge in defamation cases , published a book in which he criticised a jury in Bristol for acquitting defendants who had been charged with rioting . |
| 30 | Of the five men commemorated by name , two were royal administrators who had been drawn into Gloucester 's orbit by his activity in Wales . |