Example sentences of "who [verb] be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spink , who has been first choice since regaining the No 1 spot from Les Sealey in March , said : ‘ There was a time when my future seemed in jeopardy but things have turned my way again . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | These were a Tartar people who had been traditional enemies of the Lombards and the Eastern Empire at Constantinople for generations . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | Poati-Souchalaty , who had been Prime Minister since August 1989 , also resigned from the ruling Parti congolais du travail ( PCT ) . |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Azzedine Laraki , who had been Prime Minister since 1986 , was replaced by Karim Lamrani , 72 , an economist with a background in business who had previously been Prime Minister in 1971 and 1983 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Free produce , like antislavery generally , received some publicity from the visit of Mrs Stowe and her husband in 1853 but ebbed in popularity when the Richardsons of Newcastle who had been prime propagandists for the movement had to withdraw in 1854 . |
| 21 | The secretary of the Commission was Geoffrey Cockerill , who had been Private Secretary to Boyle and , for a short while , Crosland . |
| 22 | Two appointments were made : Molly Sheavyn , who became Further Education and Youth Officer " , and Mark Frame , by then the Rev Mark Frame , who had been Honorary Secretary since 1951 . |
| 23 | Members who had been earlier supporters of television were confirmed in their views ; those who had been uncertain found themselves in favour ; several original opponents became supporters . |
| 24 | Another woman , in a different firm , who had been twenty years in the trade ( so must have been one of the original beginners ) reported in similar terms : " in the regular bookwork , the girls do the same work as the men , but they do not lift their own " formes " and " chases " . |
| 25 | Even after Ceauşescu 's death , Lord Callaghan , who had been Foreign Secretary in 1975 , recalled generously that Ceauşescu was ‘ always a rogue elephant in the Warsaw Pact ’ and had ‘ helped us ’ in drafting the Helsinki accords and as a go-between with Moscow . |
| 26 | Siddhi , who had been Foreign Minister for 10 years but was considered hostile to Chatichai 's Cambodia policy and to any rapprochement with Vietnam [ see p. 37654 ] , was dropped altogether from the government . |
| 27 | Jordan : led by Kamel Abu Jaber , who had been Foreign Minister since October . |
| 28 | Gianni De Michelis ( Socialist Unity Party , usually referred to as the PSI ) , who had been Foreign Minister in the previous government , was told on July 14 that he was under investigation for corruption . |
| 29 | Francisco Fernández Ordoñez , who had been Foreign Minister from 1985 until his resignation in June [ see p. 38978 ] , died on Aug. 7 aged 62 . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister told the Head of the Civil Service ( who was still nominally in charge of the Cabinet Office , too , to avoid a conflict of status between Brook and General Sir Hastings Ismay , who had been Military Secretary to the Cabinet throughout the war and did not leave Whitehall till 1947 ) what he wanted as the ingredients of reform : |