Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We do not know exactly how many of those who re-applied were supporting children , who are mentioned only occasionally in the sources . |
2 | A recent study of the Gloucestershire gentry has shown that many of those from the knightly class who served were young men , whose elders carried the burden of local administration . |
3 | One of those who signed was three-year-old Robert Lynch , of Darndale , who is two months younger than Johnathan Ball . |
4 | The 5 who died were 7 year old Ian Lilley , Sheree Lear who was 8 , Paula Barnes aged 16 , Paul Carr , 17 and Belinda Brown who was celebrating her 19th birthday on the day of the crash . |
5 | Almost all who died were Iraqi soldiers and in any war the soldier is not innocent . |
6 | It is noted that the diagnosis in two of the patients who died was hepatocellular carcinoma and it may be that referral of these patients was precluded because of this . |
7 | Salah Khalaf , known by his nom de guerre of Abu Iyad , was considered to be PLO chairman Yassir Arafat 's closest and most influential aide , while Hayil Abd al-Hamid ( Abu al-Hol ) was the PLO 's chief of security ; the third man who died was Fakhri al-Umari ( Abu Muhammad ) , an aide to Abu Iyad . |
8 | Median alcohol consumption of those who drank was 11 units in CLO patients , which was less than the 50 units ( p<0.001 ) in severe reflux oesophagitis patients but not as much as the adenocarcinoma group ( 12.5 units/week ) . |
9 | Ali Aref Bourhan , the Afar politician who had been Chief Minister of the territory before independence in 1977 , was on July 12 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment along with eight other people similarly convicted of plotting to overthrow the government [ for arrests following January 1991 coup attempt see p. 37946 ; for October 1991 hunger strike see p. 38565 ] . |
10 | What they did have was the word ‘ Leeds ’ : often the only English word they knew , passed on to them by relatives who had been early immigrants . |
11 | The Board appointed Mr. G. Chaplin and Miss Anne Reid , who had been assistant master and matron respectively at the Hackney Union , but it was conditional on their being married ( to one another ) by July . |
12 | Johnson , who had been assistant coach with the national under-21 team , is now the backs ' mentor with Scotland ‘ B ’ as well as succeeding Dixon as Glasgow 's district coach . |
13 | The appointment went , however , to William Clark , a married man aged 32 , who had been assistant overseer and vestry clerk at Eaton Socon . |
14 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
15 | Vaclav Havel , who had been federal President from June 1989 until July 1992 [ see p. 39015 ] , on Nov. 17 confirmed his candidacy for the post of president of the Czech Republic . |
16 | The most helpful among the other members was E. H. E. Woodward , who had been general manager of one of the best private sector companies , the North-Eastern Electric Supply Co . |
17 | Blakeney , who had been general manager of the Egyptian State Railway from 1919 to 1923 , was responsible for organizing the tight-knit military discipline of the organization and for turning the BF into a limited company , the anglicized British Fascists Ltd , in 1924 . |
18 | She was the daughter of a respected and well-to-do burgess of Lynne ( as King 's Lynn was then called ) who had been five times Mayor , and Alderman of the High Guild of the Trinity . |
19 | That was bad enough but Italian Constantino Rocca , who had been five shots behind the 39-year-old Scot coming up the last , sank a six feet putt for a birdie three to close the gap by two . |
20 | At a meeting on July 23 , politicians who had been major figures in the pre-1980 period agreed to bring their respective political parties into a united front against President Mugabe 's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front ( ZANU-PF ) . |
21 | These were a Tartar people who had been traditional enemies of the Lombards and the Eastern Empire at Constantinople for generations . |
22 | Another relative and rector of the Patrimony was James , son of John Odoline , a cousin , and count of Andria , who had been papal marshal and commander of Innocent 's troops in Sicily in 1200 – 1201 , to whom he granted the fortress of Ninfa on the southern border . |
23 | His parents had known it as Andrássy after the Count who had been prime minister when that part of Pest was laid out . |
24 | Another notable resident then was the Honourable Thomas Walpole , the second son of Lord Walpole of Wotterton , Norfolk , and the younger brother of the great Sir Robert Walpole , who had been Prime Minister for twenty-two years during the first half of the eighteenth century . |
25 | Vítor Saúde María , who had been Prime Minister from May 1982 until his arrest in March 1984 on conspiracy charges [ see p. 32899 ] , and who was currently mayor of the capital , Bissau , was granted political asylum in Portugal on Nov. 2 while on an official mission . |
26 | Poati-Souchalaty , who had been Prime Minister since August 1989 , also resigned from the ruling Parti congolais du travail ( PCT ) . |
27 | Omar Arteh Ghaleb , who had been Prime Minister of Somalia 's interim government since February , resigned on Aug. 20 ; Radio Mogadishu reported , however , that President Mahdi , who had been sworn in himself on Aug. 18 [ see p. 38323 ] , had asked him to continue with his responsibilities until a successor was appointed . |
28 | The most politically significant event in the year to mid-1991 was the replacement in November 1990 of Margaret Thatcher , who had been Prime Minister since 1979 and leader of the Conservative Party since 1975 by John Major [ see pp. 37839-40 ] . |
29 | In Slovakia the casualties ( at federal and republican level ) included the Civic Democratic Union ( formerly the Civic Democratic Union " Public against Violence " see p. 38831 ) , to which the outgoing Federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa belonged , and the Social Democratic Party in Slovakia [ see p. 38831 ] , whose list was headed by Alexander Dubcek , the outgoing Federal Assembly chair who had been Prime Minister at the time of the 1968 " Prague Spring " . |
30 | Zubi , who had been Prime Minister since 1987 [ see pp. 36178-79 ] , was reported to have selected his new Cabinet after consultations with the leaderships of the five parties ( including the Ba'ath Party ) which were components of the National Progressive Front . |