Example sentences of "who had been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , workers who had been employed on a intermittent basis for a number of years were found to have been continuously employed ( albeit with temporary cessations due to shortages of work ) and thus , when finally dismissed , entitled to full redundancy compensation . |
| 2 | The little pigs who had been sheltered in a large box during the operation were back with their mother , side by side in a long pink row as their tiny mouths enclosed the teats . |
| 3 | He explained that he had continued to treat Mr Donnelly — who had been crushed under a van — while his colleague summoned assistance . |
| 4 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 5 | In Ridge v. Baldwin the House of Lords held that a chief constable , who had been acquitted on a criminal charge but criticized for lack of leadership by the judge , was entitled , under the common law rules of natural justice , to a hearing before he could be dismissed by the local authority who employed him . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister of Turkey 's right-wing regime of the 1950s , Adnan Menderes , and two of his Cabinet ministers , Fatin Zustu Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan , who had been overthrown by a military coup in May 1960 and hanged in 1961 [ see pp. 17501-05 ; 18375-77 ] , were given a state funeral on Sept. 17 . |
| 7 | ‘ Ginger ’ Neil was not impressed with what he saw , and described 261 as ‘ the most motley crowd of goons you ever saw in your life — ferry pilots who had been formed into a squadron . ’ |
| 8 | Last week , in contrast , a Florida jury cleared a vagrant accused of the rape of a 22-year-old woman who had been snatched from a Fort Lauderdale restaurant car park while wearing a white mini-skirt and , so the jury was informed , no underwear . |
| 9 | Examples include a member who was in partnership with an individual who had a criminal conviction for fraud ; four members who had been charged with criminal offences ; a bankrupt ; and a member who had been disqualified as a company director . |
| 10 | Leading figures in the RCM like the Marchioness of Reading , who had been born into a Jewish family , converted to Christianity and had now converted back to Judaism ; Elaine Blond , Sigmund Gestetner and Lola Hahn-Warburg quickly caught on to the message that the best chance of currying public favour was to play down the religious factor . |
| 11 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 12 | With two daughters of her own , Greta expanded her family by taking in the son of a German socialist who had been sent to a concentration camp , and a Viennese boy who adopted her name by deed poll . |
| 13 | The foundation of a national Board of Education signalled the acceptance within the official culture of a need for policies that would co-ordinate an efficient and fully national system of education , and also allowed the voices of dons who had been calling for a transformation of the traditional curriculum to carry more weight than ever before . |
| 14 | She was a pretty and vivacious brunette , who had been trained as a dancer . |
| 15 | The election result enhanced the stature of Kaifu ( who had been appointed as a caretaker leader in 1989 ) and reduced the amount of factional conflict within the ruling party . |
| 16 | The article by Mr Monti , who had been touted as a possible external candidate for the governorship , may simply be a case of sour grapes . |
| 17 | The seat had become vacant as a result of the suicide of a senior offical of the ruling Zanu ( PF ) party who had been condemned by a commission of inquiry for profiting from a racket involving the unlawful resale of officially purchased vehicles . |
| 18 | He said that the woman , who had been diagnosed as a schizophrenic in 1986 after an attempted arson attack , would probably not be fit to stand trial because of her mental condition . |
| 19 | In one hotel they found a man who had been mugged twice , young people who had been threatened with a knife and a newly-wed husband who had had his wedding ring pulled off his fingers by local thieves . |
| 20 | The celebrity was a monosyllabic professional footballer who had been transferred from a Scottish club to a fashionable one in London . |
| 21 | Only one stood out ; Robin , who had been placed in a corner . |
| 22 | Beamish , who had been watching like a man in a daze , pulled a handful of hay from a bale and held it out to her . |
| 23 | A correspondent told me of her visit to a hospital mortuary to identify her 20-year-old daughter , who had been killed in a car crash . |
| 24 | The Justice Department on Nov. 7 charged Walter Leroy Moody Jr with the murders of Judge Robert S. Vance and NAACP lawyer Robert E. Robinson , who had been killed in a mail-bomb campaign in December 1989 [ see p. 37408 ] . |
| 25 | Rebecque galloped back towards the Dutch battery , shouting at its Colonel to open fire on the concealed columns , but the Colonel was staring at one of his officers who had been killed by a skirmisher 's bullet . |
| 26 | Mr Kim , a former dissident who had been jailed by a military regime , was reluctant to pick a fight with the brass after only a few months in office . |
| 27 | The Swedes , however , took shelter within their fortifications ; the invasion , if ever planned , had , it appeared , been called off and in August 1717 the arrested Swedish ambassador was exchanged for the English resident in Sweden , who had been detained in a tit-for-tat reprisal . |
| 28 | Peter the Great had a particular liking for Scots , probably influenced by his mother who had been reared by a Scotswoman , and by his own guardian after his father 's death having been a General Menzies . |
| 29 | He became not so much a propagandist as a radio ‘ character ’ who had been created by a darker comedy than Tommy Handley 's ITMA . |
| 30 | The amnesty , which excluded anyone who had been convicted of a criminal offence , including that of " subversion " , was greeted coolly by government opponents . |