Example sentences of "who [was/were] [vb pp] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The experienced goalkeeper reckons RUC , who were relegated from the senior ranks last season , Parkview , Larne and Wanderers will all pose a serious threat to his team 's chances . |
2 | The harshest criticism came from the party ideologist , Mr Stoyan Mihailov , who was dismissed from the central committee last year following disagreements with Mr Zhivkov . |
3 | Peter Jay , who was plucked from the economic editorship of The Times by his father-in-law , Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan , to be made ambassador to Washington , recalls the feelings clearly : |
4 | DISGRACED sprinter Ben Johnson , who was banned from the last Olympics for taking drugs , was arrested in Barcelona yesterday . |
5 | San Román , who was expelled from the ruling Cambio 90 party as a " traitor " , challenged Fujimori 's authority to rule and said that he would establish his own government . |
6 | The Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid , who was expelled from the British Communist Party for his nationalism and from the Scottish Nationalist Party for his communism , thought that economics and nationalism could not be separated . |
7 | President : Fr Jean Bertrand Aristide , a radical Roman Catholic priest and outspoken proponent of liberation theology , who was expelled from the Salesian order in 1988 because of his political activities , and elected President in December 1990 . |
8 | One of the west Oxfordshire Tory rebels , who was resigned from the Tory group last February , has returned to the fold . |