Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [been] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As they culled Who 's Who there was a debate on the executive about the ‘ Old Lord approach ’ — finding someone who had been a financial force in the past , and would prove the paper was commercially sober .
2 , Helen ( 1860–1925 ) , social reformer and theorist , was born 10 February 1860 in Manchester , the youngest daughter and fifth child in the family of five sons and four daughters of the Revd John Dendy , who had been a Nonconformist minister , and then became a businessman in Manchester , and his wife Sarah Beard , daughter of a Unitarian minister .
3 She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack .
4 I did n't forget Nelly who had been a good little friend to me , and eventually we did meet up again , several years later .
5 She looked familiar , and I was soon looking into the green and expressive eyes of Sally Drayton , who had been a fellow student at Sussex University .
6 It contained a note from Dermot Kinane , an ex-jockey who had been a close friend of the family in Ireland .
7 Teversham 's terms for pretty women had been taken wholesale from his father who had been a young airman in World War II .
8 He ran a youth club with a man called Jefferson , who had been a regular soldier .
9 He was a large , imposing man who had been a noted athlete and I am sure he created a favourable impression on my parents .
10 Why , he kept asking himself , did a woman , trained in the art of healing , who had been a naval medical officer and not somebody 's wife , suddenly volunteer for something that was inevitably going to be highly dangerous — and almost certainly involve her in killing — at close quarters ?
11 And there was Chernayev who was a thief , and Byrkin who had been a naval Petty Officer , and Mamarev who they said was an informer .
12 I was with a player from the Vienna Philharmonic who had been a Russian prisoner of war , so he spoke some Russian .
13 Another source of support was Sir Laurens van der Post , who had also known Mountbatten , and who had been a Japanese prisoner of war in Java .
14 ‘ The man who had been a rich merchant , and who was now a beggar , had to make brooms for the town .
15 It took a lot to faze a talented one like that , who had been a successful soloist for two years , managing with having a sick father and about one tenth of his mother 's attention .
16 In November Lord Woolton , a man of no party affiliation but who had been a successful Minister of Food , was appointed to the task , and was given a seat in the War Cabinet .
17 The Clarion 's offices were small and dingy , but despite this , and the fact that it only appeared once a week , the magazine had a large and growing circulation because of the crusading character of its editor , J. D. O'Connor , who had been a leading journalist with the Morning Post before he had struck out on his own , financed by money left to him by his land-owning father .
18 And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours .
19 By working at the maltings was carrying on a tradition started by his grandfather , who had been a leading maltster at the same maltings .
20 In pursuing his dream of nuclear powered aircraft Tank came to know an Austrian refugee named Richter who had been a nuclear physicist in Hitler 's Germany and was another of the new generation of South Americans .
21 This was the case with Bernard-Ezi V d'Albret ( 1326–59 ) or Gaillard I de Durfort ( c.1299–1356 ) , who had been a notable canon lawyer , prebendary or Saintes , Agen and York , and archdeacon of Périgueux .
22 All senior ministers retained their posts ( in some cases renamed ) , although the Justice portfolio , hitherto one of those held by Guido De Marco , was given to Joe Fenech , who had been a parliamentary secretary in the outgoing government .
23 Also he had become friendly with a Cockney man , older than he , who had been a french polisher and who now sold reproduction furniture to antique shops from a van .
24 Jean 's own mother , who had been a domestic servant , wanted her daughter to go into service too , and certainly did not push her into printing .
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