Example sentences of "who had led [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following Masri 's resignation , King Hussein called on his cousin Field Marshal Sharif Zaid Ibn Shaker , 57 , who had led a transitional government in 1989 [ see p. 36602 ] , to form a government . |
| 2 | Reggie was an endearing , kindly man who had led a leisurely , unadventurous life as a country gentleman . |
| 3 | In 1971 a military coup brought in General Tren Son Taim ( a Taiwanese refugee who had led a tiny fascist force on the islands during the Second World War ) , and Washington lifted the trade embargo . |
| 4 | The exception was a former aristocratic beauty who had led a bitter life , losing five children through death and almost leaving her soldier husband on account of his affairs . |
| 5 | Jaime Milans del Bosch y Ussía , who had led the abortive coup attempt of 1981 , was released on June 30 , 1990 , after serving nine years of his 30-year sentence [ see pp. 31765-66 ; 32804 ] . |
| 6 | It was they , shamingly , who had led the great discovery of old Germanic literature , which included the Old English texts Beowulf The Wanderer , The Seafarer and the great rhythmical prose-sermons of Aelfric and Wulfstan . |
| 7 | A reformist politburo member of the ( orthodox ) Communist Party of Greece ( KKE-Exterior ) , she replaced Harilaos Florakis , also of the KKE-Exterior , who had led the Left Alliance since its formation in 1989 . |
| 8 | In biology , Richard Owen — who had led the conservative assault on Lamarckism in the 1830s — now accepted evolution , but insisted that it worked by a preordained process of ‘ derivation ’ . |