Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working with a different pianist each night provided an infinite variety of the best and worst musicians in the country , and among the best were the few who listened with a different ear , who could lose the rest of the world and let voice and instrument be controlled by a joint spirit . |
| 2 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 3 | A JETSKIER who died in a freak holiday accident was buried yesterday . |
| 4 | A 16 year old who spoke at a Young Enterprise presentation admitted that he was not much of a public speaker and that he had become disaffected with school where he had ‘ failed ’ regularly . |
| 5 | Of the 30,000 who fled from a military dictatorship in Haiti , 24,000 have been sent back . |
| 6 | In a study of the association between family size and university education , each member of a random sample of all who graduated from a certain university in the last 20 years is asked for information on the number of brothers and sisters he or she has . |
| 7 | Those returning to a discordant family environment were much more likely to become pregnant than those who returned to a harmonious family or remained in the institution until achieving independence . |
| 8 | The mixture of reactionary conservatism and political anti-semitism in the main represented a response of those who asked for a stable hierarchical society based on paternalistic deference . |
| 9 | And so they processed , the defiant and the hopeless , the resigned and those who pleaded with a silent desperation . |
| 10 | These migrants differed in some important respects from the 46% of applicants who were non–enrollers , ( those who applied to a particular institution but did not go on to enrol anywhere ) . |
| 11 | On the one hand , there were those who argued for a simple causal relationship between education and security in the labour-market . |
| 12 | Those who lived with a younger married couple were about five times less likely to receive a home-help visit than an elderly married couple . |
| 13 | To those who answered with a truthful ‘ no ’ , the good doctor could offer an injection of distilled water ( coloured ) for a snip at just twenty-five dollars . |
| 14 | ‘ I do not see why you should apologise to me in any way , it is I who behaved like a little monster . |
| 15 | A COP-A-GRAM who stripped in a busy railway station has escaped prosecution . |
| 16 | A YOUTH of 15 who broke into a young mother 's house in the middle of the night and subjected her to a two-hour rape ordeal while her children slept was yesterday given a life sentence . |