Example sentences of "who [vb past] been [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 2 | The voice was not what I 'd have expected from a girl who 'd been playing house with a mug like Mahoney . |
| 3 | Twenty patients who had been taking NSAIDs for more than six months underwent a screening phase and all 13 with NSAID enteropathy were recruited to the study . |
| 4 | Vice-chair was Wolfgang Thierse , who had been elected chair of the East German SPD on June 9 , 1990 , in place of Markus Meckel ( himself standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme — see p. 37302 ) . |
| 5 | The new Foreign Affairs Minister was Amr Mohammed Moussa , hitherto permanent representative at the UN , replacing Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid , who had been elected Secretary-General of the Arab League [ see p. 38215 ] . |
| 6 | It was attended by ministerial delegates from the 13 member countries , and chaired by Jibril Aminu , the Nigerian Minister for Petroleum Resources , who had been elected President of OPEC at the last six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 [ see p. 38602 ] . |
| 7 | Thomas Klestil , who had been elected President in May [ see p. 38929 ] , took office on July 8 . |
| 8 | The veteran diplomat and former Union Minister K. R. Narayanan was elected as India 's ninth Vice-President on Aug. 19 in succession to S. D. Sharma , who had been elected President in July [ see p. 39008 ] . |
| 9 | His successor was Jimmy Hudson , who had been elected Vice-chairman after retiring as Field Officer in 1978 . |
| 10 | My first contact with Todd , was through a teacher in the program who had been providing catechesis for Todd . |
| 11 | Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman , who had been re-elected President for a second term in September 1984 , was assassinated in November 1989 [ see pp. 37033-34 ] . |
| 12 | They were presumably responsible for supervising the civil settlement outside the fort and , in particular , the Sarmatian veterans who had been granted land in its vicinity . |
| 13 | The former is the voice of sound , sensible England , the latter is Spenser who had been granted land in county Cork in 1588 . |
| 14 | Who had been drinking rum without telling me ? |
| 15 | Another recent item in he BMJ ( vol 284 , p 791 ) , for example , concerned an unhappy lady who had been drinking Dettol for at least 10 years in order to ‘ purify ’ herself . |
| 16 | As a gesture to regional manager Barbara Cumming 's 17-year-old daughter Claire , who had been receiving treatment at the Centre , the runners decided to put their sponsorship money towards new equipment , and had a magnificent response with generous help from staff , friends and suppliers . |
| 17 | At the end of May 1792 the College decided it had no further occasion for the service of Blaine , who had been assisting Vial as demonstrator in anatomy . |
| 18 | Bernard Tapie , who had been appointed Minister for Towns in April 1992 [ see pp. 38870-71 ; 38820 ] , resigned on May 23 . |
| 19 | He was a member of the PLA who had been appointed Minister of the Foodstuff Industry as part of political liberalization measures in July 1990 [ see p. 37618 ] . |
| 20 | Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county , |
| 21 | In the capital , the certificate relating to Macdonald was received by John Dalrymple , Master of Stair , who had been appointed Secretary for Scotland by King William . |
| 22 | Mr Garrod , who had been appointed head of geography at a Chesterfield school , was rushed to hospital by a passing motorist but never regained consciousness . |
| 23 | He petitioned Leopold Il for the post of vice-kapellmeister , emphasizing his own track-record as a composer of sacred music ( a field in which Salieri , who had been appointed kapellmeister in 1788 , was not particularly proficient ) , but received no response . |
| 24 | On July 4 Gandhi promoted a number of junior ministers ( see pp. 36027-28 for previous portfolios ) ; D. L. Baitha was promoted to Minister of State for Defence Production replacing Chintamani Panigraphi who had been appointed Governor of Manipur a few days earlier [ see above ] ; Mahavir Prasad became Minister of State for Mines ; P. Namgyal became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Petrochemicals ; Sumati Oraon became Minister of State for Environment and Forests ; Radhakrishna Malaviya became Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs ; Saroj Khaparde was shifted from Minister of State for Health to Textiles ; Giridhar Gomango was given independent charge of the Communications Ministry ( following the death of the Communications Minister in May — see p. 36657 ) ; and Rafiq Alam became Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ( independent charge ) , a post which had been vacant since the January appointment of Moti Lal Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . |
| 25 | On March 20 , 1989 , Thanga Velly Rajeshwar ( Governor of Sikkim since 1985 — see p. 34680 ) was sworn in as Governor of West Bengal , replacing S. Nural Hassan who had been appointed Governor of Orissa in November 1988 [ see p. 36694 ] . |
| 26 | Denmark also led the way in its conservation policies , with the archaeologist J. J. A. Worsaae , who had been appointed Inspector for the Conservation of Ancient Monuments in 1847 , working on a programme of survey and preservation . |
| 27 | The European Court also decided in favour of two Spanish and British foreign language tutors at the University of Venice , who had been denied contracts of indefinite duration on the grounds that the posts were in the public service and that they were not Italians . |
| 28 | The removal of entry quotas encouraged young people who had been denied access to universities in the last years of Nicholas to enter them under Alexander , with the result that students tended to be older and more politically engaged than they had been in the past . |
| 29 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main treatment facilities in 1985–6 were daily users of heroin , who had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 30 | Amongst the villagers , the division on Friday night was between the men , who had been in the pub and could vouch for each other , and the wives , who had been watching telly at home and could n't , but who seemed knowledgeable , when pressed , about a number of ITV programmes . |