Example sentences of "who [vb past] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Young , the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party , who piloted much of the bill through the Lords when he was Trade and Industry Secretary , said : ‘ This amendment is only a mischievous attempt to gain party political advantage . ’ |
| 2 | In the West Riding woollen manufacture the independent working clothiers had long used the spring shuttle , and as a group who produced much of the food needs of their households were well enough protected from the high food prices of the war years . |
| 3 | He even offered advice to Greenwich Hospital who owned much of the land nearby on how to manage it . |
| 4 | But the most ingenious theory is from Bishop Auckland historian John Land , who devoted much time to the Eden Theatre 's history and particularly its links with Stan Laurel . |
| 5 | Even Lloyd George , whose origins were as lowly as Law 's had been , could not stoop to so humble a style , and only Stanley Baldwin ( who drew much of his inspiration from Law ) was able to do so successfully . |
| 6 | It makes the work of the Woods , who designed much of that Georgian city , look quite plain . |
| 7 | At the time of writing Roeder found Mr. W. H. Mayson , a surviving grandson of William Green in Manchester , who provided much material about Green . |
| 8 | Secondly , many of the late nineteenth-century American geologists , who provided much of the basis of systematic geomorphology , were engaged in surveying the semi-arid western parts of the United States . |
| 9 | This led him to numerous adventures in penetrating to Kabul and beyond , which have been described by Smith , Barber-Lomax , and especially Alder , who studied much of the terrain , in enthusiastic detail . |
| 10 | By steadily eroding the townsmen 's monopoly over urban trade and craft , the State assisted not only serf entrepreneurs but also their noble masters who claimed much of their profit in the form of quit-rent . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , even catering for the eloquence of the after-dinner story teller , this abrupt introduction of Doctor Who into the Serials Department does serve to give an insight into two men who shaped much of what later went before the cold eyes of the BBC cameras . |
| 12 | But some of these officials will now be tainted by associations with Zhao Ziyang , who spent much of his early career in Guangdong . |
| 13 | Hamar was a highly trained imported showhorse , who spent much of his life in unnatural and stressful conditions . |
| 14 | Mr Taylor and Rick Parry , the Premier League chief executive , who spent much of the weekend trying to thrash out an agreement on the telephone , are likely to meet again in the next 48 hours . |
| 15 | Claude , the seventeenth-century French painter who spent much of his life in Italy , formulated a set of rules for landscape painting that became de rigueur . |
| 16 | The biographer of Edward the Confessor shows us ( in what is meant to be a panegyric ) the picture of a thoroughly idle king , who spent much of his time ‘ in the glades and woods in the pleasures of hunting ’ . |
| 17 | He has fittingly been given a measure of local immortality by Mrs Lavinia Mary Thwaites , who spent much time in the man 's jovial company . |
| 18 | With her was her bit on the side , one John Bryan , a financial wizard , all the way from Texas , who spent much time in close proximity , valuing her assets . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Chris Protheroe , who spent much of the next few months at the massive Boeing plant in Seattle , was trying to discover the origin of the fatigue fracture of the stabilizer rear spar top chord . |
| 20 | Miyagi 's instructor was the great Kanryo Higaonna , who spent much of his youth on mainland China and is known to have studied Chinese boxing methods . |
| 21 | According to the version of the letter published in Panorama , owned by socialist media baron Silvio Berlusconi , Togliatti , who spent much of the Second World War in Moscow , had expressed the view that the deaths of the prisoners would help to turn the Italian people against fascism . |
| 22 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 23 | It was another highly talented Scottish athlete Ian McCafferty 21 years previously who spent much of his time ( and money ) phoning home from the Munich Olympics . |
| 24 | Some form of custody — whether in hospital or in prison is a moot point — is required to give peace of mind to the people who gave evidence and who displayed much courage and fortitude in so doing . |
| 25 | This was ideal for those hobbyist and experimenters who derived much fun a pleasure from making their computers ‘ sing and dance ’ in the real world . |
| 26 | Then there will be equality , as it is written : ‘ He who gathered much did not have too much , and he who gathered little did not have too little . ’ |
| 27 | Mrs Gaskell , who knew much better than Jane Austen how the poor really lived , and saw that her readers knew it too by taking them inside ( at least in towns ) , nevertheless allows her heroine , Margaret , to take pleasure in sketching the exterior of a squatter cottage which is due for demolition in the New Forest . |
| 28 | The librarian smelt of almonds for some reason , and assured the chief inspector that Swod was a respected historian who knew much about the Poles and their links with the British secret service . |
| 29 | Among those who found wartime location shooting refreshing was the actor Michael Redgrave who credited much of the quality in The Way to the Stars ( 1945 ) , Asquith 's atmospheric picture about life on an airforce base , to ‘ the atmosphere of those three weeks at Catterick , which could never have been created in the studio . ’ |
| 30 | Frank Salter , the District Treasurer from 1918 , believed that financial appeals for new income in a sparsely populated region with a low wage economy and high unemployment , was an insuperable task and in 1931 he was succeeded by Lionel Elvin , Fellow of Trinity Hall , as the District 's honorary treasurer , and who brought much vigour and commitment to resolving the perennial financial problem . |