Example sentences of "[adj] who had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a spokeswoman for the RIR said these figures included some who had transferred to full-time duties . |
| 2 | Of the forty who had participated in further education , 27 said it was beneficial for what they were now doing . |
| 3 | This speaker , a deaf teacher of the deaf who had worked for many years in the Department of Education of the Deaf at Manchester University , had been a committed " oralist " . |
| 4 | Johnson , as he did at Montrose , also employed much silence , and many who had come to one social occasion or another expecting to hear the grand disquisitioner , found him disappointingly reticent and withdrawn , even if making little antic noises to himself . |
| 5 | Many of the demonstrators were Nepalese who had crossed into southern Bhutan from India . |
| 6 | The crisis-ridden years of 1961–2 had dampened the optimism of those who had hoped for new initiatives to end the Cold War . |
| 7 | The younger generation , who had never known the Weimar or Nazi eras , still less the Wilhelmine Empire , had little understanding of those who had lived through earlier turmoils . |
| 8 | It was in this region that James Wilson writing in 1967 , found evidence of a new conservative political culture amongst the children of those who had emigrated to southern California from small mainly midwestern towns . |
| 9 | She was not impressed when her spouse informed her there was a member of the gentry below , for the only visitors of that sort to frequent her humble hostelry were those who had fallen on evil times . |
| 10 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
| 11 | We combined current users and those who had stopped within 12 months for analysis in case some women had been directed to stop the pill before elective surgery . |
| 12 | Included among those who had surrendered to 5 Corps by 12 May were various groups of Yugoslavs . |
| 13 | Those who had heard about major items of foreign news — such as the Amin coup in Uganda , the deaths of Nasser in Egypt and Nkrumah in Ghana , or the proposed resumption of British arms sales in South Africa — had for the most part received the news from the radio . |
| 14 | Even those who had arrived in early 1939 or before did not as yet have complete command of English and this made communication with their new and sometimes reluctant hosts difficult . |
| 15 | this would defeat the legitimate expectations of those who had acted in some way in reliance on the old authority ; or |
| 16 | Those who had perished after such a challenge included Harry S. Truman , Gerald Ford , and Jimmy Carter , whilst in 1968 Lyndon Johnson decided against seeking re-election after a poor showing against Eugene McCarthy . |
| 17 | To pack and process them he needed staff , so our terms stipulated a minimum of two months ' summer work , the understanding being that when contracts came up for renewal , priority would be given to those who had put in most time on the slime-line . |
| 18 | It was reported in late December that some 142,000 Jews had emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel during 1991 , compared with the 400,000 expected by the government at the start of the year and the 185,000 who had emigrated in 1990 . |
| 19 | The Peruvian military reacted with force during the Pamplona invasion in May 1971 , when they tried to evict the tens of thousands who had participated in this huge squatter invasion in Lima , with the result that there were several injuries and one death ( Collier 1975 ) . |