Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [been] [vb pp] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister of Turkey 's right-wing regime of the 1950s , Adnan Menderes , and two of his Cabinet ministers , Fatin Zustu Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan , who had been overthrown by a military coup in May 1960 and hanged in 1961 [ see pp. 17501-05 ; 18375-77 ] , were given a state funeral on Sept. 17 . |
| 3 | The seat had become vacant as a result of the suicide of a senior offical of the ruling Zanu ( PF ) party who had been condemned by a commission of inquiry for profiting from a racket involving the unlawful resale of officially purchased vehicles . |
| 4 | Rebecque galloped back towards the Dutch battery , shouting at its Colonel to open fire on the concealed columns , but the Colonel was staring at one of his officers who had been killed by a skirmisher 's bullet . |
| 5 | Mr Kim , a former dissident who had been jailed by a military regime , was reluctant to pick a fight with the brass after only a few months in office . |
| 6 | Peter the Great had a particular liking for Scots , probably influenced by his mother who had been reared by a Scotswoman , and by his own guardian after his father 's death having been a General Menzies . |
| 7 | He became not so much a propagandist as a radio ‘ character ’ who had been created by a darker comedy than Tommy Handley 's ITMA . |
| 8 | In Campbell v Tameside Metropolitan BC [ 1982 ] 2 All ER 791 the plaintiff was a teacher who had been assaulted by a pupil . |
| 9 | Earlier that day the newspaper Faks had revealed the names of 32 deputies in the Grand National Assembly ( GNA ) who had been identified by a parliamentary commission as secret police informers under the communist regime ousted in 1989 . |
| 10 | After it , Challe decided to throw in his lot with three other retired generals ( Salan , Jouhaud , and Zeller ) who had been recruited by a group of integrationist colonels to lead a putsch against de Gaulle . |
| 11 | The Senate investigation also included the case of Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato ( Rep. , New York ) who had been accused by a political opponent of using improper influence on behalf of political contributors and friends in federal housing programmes [ see above for HUD scandal ] . |
| 12 | Cardiff was still one of the bastards who had put him away , not someone who had been duped by a fellow officer with false evidence , certainly not someone he had come to respect . |
| 13 | Junqueira later stated that he had been offered a US$50,000,000 bribe to drop the charges , through a colleague who had been approached by a businessman in the capital , Brasilia , on Nov. 17 . |
| 14 | McGregor , who had been approached by a worried neighbour , admitted making use of the computer but claimed it was on legitimate police business . |
| 15 | A man who had been bitten by a snake in Sydney , Australia , refused medical help when paramedics would n't allow his dog in the ambulance . |