Example sentences of "[noun pl] who had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three candidates who had been members of the CNC , Nadjita Ngororo , Doungous Kimto and Bobekreo Tchimne , were also defeated . |
| 2 | The arrest of three police officers and two military captains who had been members of the elite UESAT unit of the Panamanian Defence Forces commanded by the former dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega , led to suggestions that a serious coup attempt had been intended , and that it had enjoyed wide support from the police . |
| 3 | The allocation of work was in some cases based upon people 's skills outside ; for example , prisoners who had been barbers , washermen , gardeners or ‘ sweepers ’ ( refuse collectors and cleaners from the lower castes ) were given similar jobs if available , but , generally speaking , new inmates were assigned a task without much deliberation or consultation . |
| 4 | And to prove his point he cited beside the names of Matisse and two or three other painters who had been Fauves those of Robert Delaunay , Henri Le Fauconnier , Jean Metzinger , André Lhote and Marie Laurencin , all of whom were at some time or another involved in the Cubist movement . |
| 5 | Stefan , a thin , grey-faced , middle-aged man with stomach ulcers who had been production manager since the Hochhauser Season had begun , sat down at the table , looked at the balance sheet and the final sentence at the bottom and took a bottle of tablets from his pocket . |
| 6 | Therefore , we reasoned that patients who had been stone free for two years or more might represent a ‘ protected ’ subgroup at low risk for recurrence . |
| 7 | Indeed Samuel et al reported that when HBIG was administered on a regular basis in the first two years after liver transplantation to 100 patients who had been serum HBsAg positive , HBsAg reappeared in 22.7% only . |
| 8 | What he overheard provided his first insight into the intimate sentiments of mature Fists who had been warriors for over seventy years — as the seven long-service studs on the craggy , crewcut forehead of each star-knight signified . |
| 9 | " He was convinced " , wrote Tupper , " that the German man-in-the-street was participating in this senseless and savage struggle because the Prussian system forced him to ; the ordinary subject of the Kaiser might be misled into believing his cause just — but he could not conceive it possible that the German sailormen who had been part of our Merchant Service could have anything but hatred for this catastrophe " . |
| 10 | On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association . |
| 11 | The men of No. 1 Troop , all volunteers , included Territorials ( men who had been civilians doing part-time army training ) , some regulars , and reservists like Lance-Corporal Weatherall who were recalled to the colours . |
| 12 | The commercial department of the Central Authority was staffed at the top by three ex-CEB men who had been experts in the complex bulk tariff rules laid down in 1926 to secure equity between independent undertakings : a job which no longer existed . |
| 13 | In the summer of 1529 , during an outbreak of the plague in southern England , three men who had been students together at Cambridge found themselves by chance staying in the same house in Waltham . |
| 14 | Where they men who had been quarry men ? |
| 15 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |
| 16 | One of the crew who survived lost his wife and daughters who had been passengers . |