Example sentences of "who had been [verb] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By March , he 'd won the right to remove incompetent principals — like the one in the Bronx who had been convicted of possessing crack cocaine . |
| 2 | Those released on March 2 included military officers and civil servants who had been accused of taking advantage of the campaign for the December 1990 municipal elections to organize an attempted coup against the regime of President Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya . |
| 3 | GERMANY 'S double world sprint champion , Katrin Krabbe , and her colleagues , Grit Breuer and Silke Moller , who had been accused of tampering with a urine sample , had a four-year suspension lifted here yesterday , clearing the way for the three athletes to participate in this summer 's Olympic Games in Barcelona . |
| 4 | The three athletes , who had been accused of tampering with a urine test in South Africa in January , were restored to competition after the three-man commission , who held a 14-hour hearing stretching over two days in Darmstadt , declared there had been ‘ holes in the chain of evidence ’ during and after testing by South African anti-doping control officials . |
| 5 | Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights . |
| 6 | President Mobutu Sese Seko signed a decree on Feb. 10 granting amnesty to Zaïrean exiles who had been accused of threatening state security through speech , writing or in any other manner ; it also covered those who had been removed from official posts or banned by the government from involvement in civic and political life . |
| 7 | Bowe , who had been accused of having an optic measure of heart , had to mine deep into previously untapped resources to resist a man who had every physical disadvantage . |
| 8 | The 20-year-old single woman , who had been accused of attempting to murder the baby on 25 November last year , admitted the reduced charge . |