Example sentences of "who had [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few to grasp what was happening was Lieutenant-Colonel Laurens Van der Post , the South African writer who had been a POW and who spoke Dutch . |
| 2 | Attlee , who had been a member of the Simon Commission and a non-dissenting contributor to its very gradualistic report , had always been extremely cautious in his statements on colonial issues . |
| 3 | The ITGWU County Cork organizer , Hugh O'Callaghan , who had been a member of the workers ' delegation to the US Ambassador , responded that he was convinced that the project would go ahead , though an inquiry might help to quell current concern . |
| 4 | Under its terms , Communist or " front " organizations had to register with the Attorney-General ; their members were banned from employment in defence plants , and prevented from obtaining passports ; and no foreigner who had been a member of the Communist Party could enter the USA . |
| 5 | Two other Grand Councillors , appointed at the same time , were Leslie Edwards , who had been responsible for the organisation of the Cardiff gathering , and Alec Taylor , who had been a member of the BDDA since 1907 , and a Vice-president since 1937 . |
| 6 | On 27 December Babrak Karmal , who had been a member of the post-coup government but who had subsequently been exiled to the USSR , announced that the former president had been deposed and that he had taken power ; the following day it was announced that Hafizullah Amin had been executed for ‘ crimes against the noble people of Afghanistan ’ . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , my mother , who had been a member of the Young Communist League before the war , went with three young children by boat and train to Majorca . |
| 8 | Roy Bradford who had been a member of the Executive stood as an Ulster Unionist in East Belfast but without the support of UUUC , and Tom Conaty who was well known as Chairmen of the Central Citizens Defence Committee ( CCDC ) stood as an Independent in West Belfast and identified himself as a Catholic representative . |
| 9 | Fowler , who had been a member of the Cabinet since January 1981 [ see p. 30708 ] , stressed that he was leaving for " family reasons " and that there was no disagreement between him and the Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 10 | And Forne , merchant of York , who had been a master coiner at Nottingham now for years , and had thought his fortune made , no doubt , when he married the sister of Duncan — King Duncan , the last one to rule Alba and Cumbria . |
| 11 | Had she really expected him to think like David or Ben , or many of the other men who had been a part of her adult life ? |
| 12 | Mr Husseini beat another cleric , Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Abou Torabi , who had been a prisoner of war in Iraq for many years , and Dr Abbas Sheibani , a former minister . |
| 13 | I noticed in particular a large placard placed on the floor in a corner , which I assumed to have been presented to him by Montgomery Belgion , who had been a prisoner of war in Germany . |
| 14 | During 1964 Crawford made The Knack … and how to get it , his first of three films with director Richard Lester , who had been a writer of The Goon Show on radio and had taken that brand of surrealism to film-making , using a new-wave style that reflected the mood of the Swinging Sixties and the idea that the world was being turned upside down . |
| 15 | Finn dancing in his stained vest and Francie playing the fiddle like the devil himself , who had been a fiddler , and the dumb aunt in a cape of fiery hair whistling along a flute . |
| 16 | An interim Prime Minster , Jean Jacques Honorat , who had been a government minister under former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and was one of Aristide 's bitterest critics , was installed on Oct. 10 ; a new Cabinet was announced on Oct. 16 . |
| 17 | Philip Snowden , who had been a harder-line pacifist during the war than the more pragmatic Macdonald , was now Labour 's Chancellor , and he stood like a rock against all attempts to introduce new economic thinking . |
| 18 | Aidan McAleenan grabbed a fortunate winner for Billy Hamilton 's side nine minutes from time as Joe McBrearty who had been a spectator for long periods allowed his harmless looking shot slip through his hands . |
| 19 | Looking out over the silvery water , she wondered whether it really was Robert who had been a spectator of what was apparently a passionate embrace . |
| 20 | Gramoz Pashko , Deputy Prime Minister in June-December 1991 , who had been a founder member of the DP , accused his old party of diluting and altering the reform programme especially as regards privatization , and described the new party as a liberal formation of the centre-right committed to institutional , economic and cultural reforms . |
| 21 | When negotiations with Honorius failed to bring rewards Athaulf showed both his anger and his desire to be associated with the Empire by marrying the emperor 's sister , Galla Placidia , who had been a captive since 410 . |
| 22 | He was the son of a woman who had been a nightclub singer and briefly married to Juan Gómez , that was all my tired mind seemed able to grasp . |
| 23 | ’ So this particular sergeant who had been a PC when I had been an acting sergeant , sat alongside me . |
| 24 | By an Act of 1808 ( 48 Geo III cap 123 ) , anyone who had been a year in prison for a debt of less than £20 was thought to have suffered enough and must be allowed to go home . |
| 25 | The actual printing was produced by a retired man who had been a compositor all his life . |
| 26 | Just as he had made an example of earlier insubordinates , such as Hedilla , Varela , Galarza and Yagüe , now the monarchist Kindelán , who had been a stone in Franco 's shoe since 1936 , was arrested and exiled to the Canary Islands . |
| 27 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 28 | A former ambassador and veteran politician Ali Tahirou was among those elected , as was Abdoul Boukar , who had been a minister in the government of President Goukouni Oueddi overthrown by Habré in 1982 [ see pp. 31677-80 ] . |
| 29 | In 1931 she married ( Sir ) Albert Howard , MA , FLS , economic botanist to the government of India , the widower of her elder sister Gabrielle , who had been a botanist . |
| 30 | Chairman David Sainsbury welcomes one of the customers who had been a regular at Queen 's Walk — the store this new Sainsbury 's has replaced . |