Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides John Winchcombe , junior , who was assessed at the unusually high figure of £630 , Newbury in 1522 had three residents worth £100 or so and ten more in the £40 — £99 range , including William Dolman who had been the elder Winchcombe 's works manager ; now , at 100 marks , he might already have set up in business for himself . |
| 2 | Virgin had been dabbling in West Indian music for three years , and again it was Chris Blackwell and Island who had been the inspiration for Virgin 's involvement . |
| 3 | Some years later her aunt , Alveva , who had been the mistress of Rannulph Flambard [ q.v. ] before he became bishop of Durham , entertained him on his way to London , and after the feast Christina was left with him in his room , where he attempted to seduce her . |
| 4 | Sir Cyril Norwood was the head of an Oxford college who had been the head of a Public School and written about leadership . |
| 5 | There he worked as a gardener for Sir John Blencowe ( 1642–1726 ) who had been the Member of Parliament for Brackley from 1690–1695 , and from 1696 –1714 had served as a Baron of the Exchequer and Justice of Common Pleas [ DNB , 2 , 672–3 ] . |
| 6 | So perhaps the sort of thing that might happen is what we found wholly by chance , in the personal interviews which we conducted with people who had been the subject of judgement summonses ( Appendix II , section 5 ) . |
| 7 | Other women who had been the subject of The Fox 's violence were described by the press . |
| 8 | Under the Act the Poor Law acquired the responsibility of visiting and supervising , in institutions or in their own homes , children who had been the subject of cruelty proceedings . |
| 9 | In this task he was ably assisted by Mrs. Muriel Ellis , who had been the Headmaster 's secretary since 1973 . |
| 10 | The man chosen to be the ‘ Charter Mayor ’ was Mr. James Clements , who had been the Chairman of the Brentford District Council in 1903 , and as such had been present when King Edward VII had opened the new Kew Bridge . |
| 11 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 12 | Sir William Walker was an ageing Conservative ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester , engineer , and member of the CEB , who had been the architect of the employers ' side of the industry 's labour relations machinery prior to nationalisation . |
| 13 | It was a large walled-in structure containing several graves and a plaque stating that underneath were deposited the remains of Mary , who had been the daughter of somebody and the wife of someone else . |
| 14 | In 1633 , one of the leading Arminians , William Laud , who had been the king 's chief religious adviser since the beginning of the reign , was appointed to succeed Abbot as Archbishop of Canterbury , and by the mid-1630s most of the other bishops ' thrones were also occupied by Arminians . |
| 15 | There were many theories about how it had been carried out and who had been the accomplices . |
| 16 | And he looked directly at the woman who had been the origin of his biting anger and smiled again . |
| 17 | Who had been the loser ? |
| 18 | He then did a double-take at the sight of Catherine Crane , who had been the object of the most careful attention from everyone else in the room from the minute she had arrived . |
| 19 | Chapman 's search for the right man ended in 1929 when Preston put on transfer at £9,000 their ‘ Wembley Wizard ’ Alex James , the Scottish international who had been the bane of England at Wembley the year before , when Scotland won 5–1 . |
| 20 | Those who had been obliged to pay for their own lunches had managed to keep awake ; those who had been the beneficiaries of hospitality of one kind or another , had dozed gently , helped by the lights and the warmth of so many . |
| 21 | The Britons were strong supporters of Albinus who had been the Governor of the Province , it follows that Severus would undoubtedly have dealt with them severely . |
| 22 | And it was Newton who had been the murderer . |
| 23 | The breach with the inherited system lay not in Godoy 's policies but in the relegation to impotence of the trained bureaucrats who had been the servants of Charles III ; it lay in the scandalous origins and untrammelled nature of his power as the queen 's supposed lover and the ‘ dearest friend ’ of the complaisant Charles IV . |
| 24 | However , he was prevented from standing on Oct. 19 , when the Constitutional Court upheld the Supreme Court 's Oct. 12 ruling that anyone who had been the author or beneficiary of a military coup was debarred from participation in elections under Article 186 of the 1986 Constitution . |
| 25 | Salvador Nava , 77 , an independent who had been the opposition coalition candidate in the gubernatorial election , was in the 12th day of a protest march from San Luis Potosí to Mexico City to expose what he said had been extensive electoral fraud . |
| 26 | The Supreme Court on March 4 upheld a $1,000,000 jury award to Cleopatra Haslip , an Alabama woman who had been the victim of an insurance fraud . |
| 27 | Most of the cost was met by the wealthy Congregationalist , Abel Buckley , who had been the MP for Prestwich Division in the Home Rule Parliament of 1885 . |
| 28 | The Netherlands Prime Minister , Ruud Lubbers , who had been the president of the European Council in the final phase of the negotiations , declared that " we have now passed the point of no return " . |
| 29 | Menem signed six decrees on Dec. 29 , which were not officially released until the following day , pardoning eight former high-ranking Army officers who had been the architects of the " dirty war " of the 1970s . |
| 30 | She had given the instruction herself , saying she could not bear to see the person who had been the instrument through whom she had heard such infamous news . |