Example sentences of "who [was/were] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was taken prisoner of war at Saint Valerie for a few of my friends in from Edinburgh who were taken prisoner of war . |
| 2 | He added that the freeing of Americans and others who were held hostage by Dignity Battalion gunmen would be ‘ a priority for us today ’ . |
| 3 | Viktor Korovin , who was elected director of Uralmash by its workforce last summer , says that its ‘ financial situation is very complicated ’ , by which he means that few of the company 's heavy-industrial clients can afford to pay for the machinery that has been delivered to them . |
| 4 | In a late November Cabinet reshuffle , Community Development and Culture Minister David Bowen was moved to Agriculture , Food and Fisheries , replacing Harcourt Lewis who was appointed Minister of State in the Prime Minister 's Office . |
| 5 | Other Cabinet members included : Nepali Congress members Marshal Zullum Sakya , Mahendra Narayan Nidhi , and Yog Prasad Upadhyay , who became Home Minister ; United Left Front members Sahana Pradhan ( the Nepali Communist Party leader , who took on the portfolio of Industry and Commerce ) , Jhal Nath Khanal , and Nilambar Acharya ; two prominent non-party opposition figures , Devendra Raj Pandey ( an economist and leader of the Human Rights Organization of Nepal , who became Finance Minister ) , and Mathura Shrestha ( a professor of medicine , who was appointed Minister of Health ) ; and two members nominated by King Birendra , one of whom was Rai Majhi , who became Minister of Education , despite protests by students and teaching staff . |
| 6 | Soisson became Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development , in place of Louis Mermaz , who was appointed Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament and Government Spokesman in place of Malvy . |
| 7 | The seats included Sope 's own and that of President Fred Timikata who was appointed head of state after the imprisonment of his predecessor , a relative of Sope 's who was implicated in the events of 1988 . |
| 8 | The particular object of his fear becomes clear from advice given to his son , Taskopruzade 's father , who was appointed kadi of Aleppo by Selim I. Although Taskopruzade 's father actually went to Aleppo , he resigned before taking up his duties as kadi , remembering an injunction of his father 's : " Do n't become a kadi . " |