Example sentences of "who [vb past] been [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unexpected retention in the Cabinet was Foreign Minister Carlos Iturralde Ballivián who had been widely criticized for his conduct of diplomacy within the Organization of American States ( OAS ) , for the handling of border disputes with Chile and for his failure to secure Bolivian membership of the Mercosur common market with Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 2 | The man chosen by Nero for the new advance was Quintus Veranius , who had been carefully selected for a senatorial career from an early age , and had distinguished himself as governor in Pamphylia , which is now in Turkey . |
| 3 | In early July the Moroccan authorities had freed a number of prisoners previously deemed to have " disappeared " , who had been secretly detained for up to 15 years . |
| 4 | Price was thought to have influenced the decision on April 21 by Guyana 's President Desmond Hoyte to appoint Rudolph Collins , a former ambassador to Venezuela , to chair the electoral commission , in place of Sir Harold Bollers , who had been strongly criticized for failing to assert the commission 's independence from the ruling People 's National Congress . |
| 5 | Another woman , who had been summarily sacked for challenging a supervisor who was cheating fellow workers , joined the union when she learned it would help her get back pay and holiday pay . |