Example sentences of "[noun sg] who have [been] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The meeting was addressed by David Bellamy and by Gerry Wilson , a retired Canadian geologist who had been head geologist for Holannah , one of the biggest mining companies in the world , and who knew intimately the industry he attacked so fiercely .
2 Simon Coyte , chairman of the recreation committee , welcomed guests and thanked Derek Offer who had been head groundsman for over nine years .
3 His parents had known it as Andrássy after the Count who had been prime minister when that part of Pest was laid out .
4 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 " .
5 The excuses have been collected by community dieticians from Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust who have been busy spreading the word about the importance of healthy eating .
6 Mary Shirley , a new teacher in the Kent area , is another trail-blazer who has been stirring interest with her special classes for the elderly and their carers .
7 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 ] .
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