Example sentences of "who had been the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who had been the loser ? |
| 2 | He then did a double-take at the sight of Catherine Crane , who had been the object of the most careful attention from everyone else in the room from the minute she had arrived . |
| 3 | Even as the people run away in terror , the fire of God 's anger , which destroyed parts of the camp in Numbers 11 , now consumes the 250 men who had been the closest supporters of Korah in his bid for power . |
| 4 | She had given the instruction herself , saying she could not bear to see the person who had been the instrument through whom she had heard such infamous news . |
| 5 | Most of the cost was met by the wealthy Congregationalist , Abel Buckley , who had been the MP for Prestwich Division in the Home Rule Parliament of 1885 . |
| 6 | The man chosen to be the ‘ Charter Mayor ’ was Mr. James Clements , who had been the Chairman of the Brentford District Council in 1903 , and as such had been present when King Edward VII had opened the new Kew Bridge . |
| 7 | There he worked as a gardener for Sir John Blencowe ( 1642–1726 ) who had been the Member of Parliament for Brackley from 1690–1695 , and from 1696 –1714 had served as a Baron of the Exchequer and Justice of Common Pleas [ DNB , 2 , 672–3 ] . |
| 8 | And he looked directly at the woman who had been the origin of his biting anger and smiled again . |
| 9 | Husayn enjoyed the active support of the Israeli government , which proceeded to deport or detain activists identified not only with the left ( who had been the target of stringent measures before ) , but also those of the mainstream PLO . |
| 10 | Sir Cyril Norwood was the head of an Oxford college who had been the head of a Public School and written about leadership . |
| 11 | Society chairman Col. David Hanson paid tribute to Roy Robins who had been the driving force behind the environmental improvement . |
| 12 | Chapman 's search for the right man ended in 1929 when Preston put on transfer at £9,000 their ‘ Wembley Wizard ’ Alex James , the Scottish international who had been the bane of England at Wembley the year before , when Scotland won 5–1 . |
| 13 | The little tin house had been built for the friend 's father-in-law who had been the captain of the steamer based on inland Loch Awe . |
| 14 | It was he , Thiercelin was now convinced , who had been the target of the Müller plot . |
| 15 | In the Academy , he was a pupil of John Graham who had been the famous artist David Wilkie 's teacher . |
| 16 | Despite them the withdrawal went smoothly , with the Colonel , who had been the first man ashore , the last man off , just behind Charley Head , who , as signals officer , had kept up a stream of messages , 40 an hour at one point , that included reassuring but unproven ‘ going well ’ reports . |
| 17 | So perhaps the sort of thing that might happen is what we found wholly by chance , in the personal interviews which we conducted with people who had been the subject of judgement summonses ( Appendix II , section 5 ) . |
| 18 | It was obviously different from the religion of Jesus , as far as we understand it , and also from the Jewish vision of St Paul , who had been the first to bring the semitic faith to the hellenistic world of the Roman empire . |
| 19 | As they went their separate ways , critics gave Martin , who had been the straight man of the team , little chance of finding the kind of success they predicted for Lewis . |
| 20 | The dissident who had been the first to speak to Holly talked the hesitant monologue of revolution . |
| 21 | In 1633 , one of the leading Arminians , William Laud , who had been the king 's chief religious adviser since the beginning of the reign , was appointed to succeed Abbot as Archbishop of Canterbury , and by the mid-1630s most of the other bishops ' thrones were also occupied by Arminians . |
| 22 | It was Canning , after all , who had been the first virtuoso of diplomacy by public opinion . |
| 23 | Sir William Walker was an ageing Conservative ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester , engineer , and member of the CEB , who had been the architect of the employers ' side of the industry 's labour relations machinery prior to nationalisation . |
| 24 | Other women who had been the subject of The Fox 's violence were described by the press . |
| 25 | Besides John Winchcombe , junior , who was assessed at the unusually high figure of £630 , Newbury in 1522 had three residents worth £100 or so and ten more in the £40 — £99 range , including William Dolman who had been the elder Winchcombe 's works manager ; now , at 100 marks , he might already have set up in business for himself . |
| 26 | Sawle acknowledged this on the eve of the final Test when , asked to defend the dumping of Marsh , he made the point that it had been the bowlers — Craig McDermott ( whose 31 wickets made him the highest Australian wicket-taker in a series against India ) , Bruce Reid ( a wrecker in the second Test before breaking down again ) and Merv Hughes — who had been the key figures throughout the series . |
| 27 | The Britons were strong supporters of Albinus who had been the Governor of the Province , it follows that Severus would undoubtedly have dealt with them severely . |
| 28 | Under the Act the Poor Law acquired the responsibility of visiting and supervising , in institutions or in their own homes , children who had been the subject of cruelty proceedings . |
| 29 | He had been restored to the earldom in 1470 as part of Edward 's measures against Clarence and the Nevilles , who had been the main beneficiaries of the Percy forfeiture . |
| 30 | In this task he was ably assisted by Mrs. Muriel Ellis , who had been the Headmaster 's secretary since 1973 . |