Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The south Italians and Sicilians , who were to flood into the big cities of the Americas , had hardly yet begun to stir from their native slum villages , the east Europeans , Catholic or Orthodox , remained largely sedentary , only the Jews seeping or flooding into provincial towns from which they had hitherto been excluded and thence into larger cities . |
| 2 | When I was very young , and indeed Malcolm Rifkind , who was even younger , was my counsel , we represented two individuals who were charged with a serious assault . |
| 3 | The families of five young people who were killed by a reckless driver say they 're outraged over a decision to reduce his prison sentence . |
| 4 | Estimates of the number of people who were killed by the military varied form several hundred to several thousand . |
| 5 | Yet these signs in themselves emphasise the provisional nature of the Kingdom , because all of those who were healed in the New Testament subsequently became sick and died . |
| 6 | It was women who were defined as the human agents of infection , threatening national health and security and challenging the social order by their active and autonomous sexuality . |
| 7 | This apparent failure to improve housing outcome is mitigated by the fact that a number of this group who were referred to the Homeless Persons Unit , together with others who went to Bed and Breakfast accommodation , would ‘ presumably in due course ’ have found their way to independent accommodation . |
| 8 | In 1964 Johnson won Congressional approval for aid to pro-Western South Vietnam in its struggle against ‘ Viet Cong ’ guerrillas who were supported by the Communist North . |
| 9 | At seven o'clock all the guests assembled in an ante-room known as the Salle des fêtes , to await the arrival of the Imperial couple who were announced by the Grand Chamberlain . |
| 10 | For example , we continually came across white schoolchildren , who were perplexed by the diminishing prospects of employment and who searched for explanations and solutions . |
| 11 | At first starting on an ad hoc and ad hominem basis before the birth of the Romanov dynasty , the system of transporting the unwanted criminal detritus and the antisocial , nonconformist and subversive members of the Russian social and political order — both tsarist and Soviet — steadily generated a huge sprawling diaspora comprising millions of wretched human beings who were banished to the living purgatory of Siberian exile . |
| 12 | The Dhofaris who were neglected by the previous ruler are now enjoying the fruits of extensive agricultural development , so that the region once famed for providing the ancient world with frankincense may soon be a major source of food for other Gulf states . |
| 13 | Throughout his career with Rangers , Sunderland , Nottingham Forest and Scotland , Baxter befriended players cast in a similar mould , that army of renegades who were born with a natural gift for football but were easily disenchanted with the disciplinary structures of the professional game . |
| 14 | Most of the young black people in my study use LE most of the time , even when speaking to other members of the family who were born in the Caribbean . |
| 15 | It was , of course , not the Springboks but Nick Farr-Jones 's Wallabies who were to emerge from the restored gold mine shining as brightly as a 24-carat nugget to inflict on South Africa their worst-ever defeat in international rugby . |
| 16 | The experienced goalkeeper reckons RUC , who were relegated from the senior ranks last season , Parkview , Larne and Wanderers will all pose a serious threat to his team 's chances . |
| 17 | As a universal god , Re became linked to the cults of other gods , particularly those who were connected with the creative process . |
| 18 | The average wait for these patients who were seen outside the normal times of outpatient clinics , was 13 ( range 3–104 ) weeks . |
| 19 | Although there was a resistance movement to the German occupation , it never developed on any scale and did not have the support of the mass of the people who were coddled by the occupying regime . |
| 20 | The Government have reneged on all their commitments to the civil servants who were transferred into the private sector . |
| 21 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 22 | For example , John Fox and Peter Goldblatt ( 1982 ) have shown that after controlling for age , mortality in the 5 years following the 1971 Census for men aged 15 to 64 was greater for the highest social class , professional workers , who were living in the local authority sector , than for the lowest social class , unskilled manual workers , in the owner-occupied sector ( see figure 7.9 ) . |
| 23 | … we attended at the School on Monday the 17th [ July , 1833 ] and found that it was divided into six classes , the first being composed of three boys only whose study was the Classics , the second of about 20 who were instructed in the Latin Grammar , and the remaining four classes were composed of boys whose education was confined to Reading , Writing , Arithmetic , and English Grammar , in which instruction the boys in the two senior classes also participated . " |
| 24 | And we built that , a feeling of trust , rather than you know , apprehension or misapprehension er in the minds of people who were engaged on the previous scheme . |
| 25 | Your conservatory collapses as a result of negligence of the professionals who were engaged by the previous owner to put it up . |
| 26 | Five minutes later , however , she became only too aware of other members of staff who were trickling into the social club as their shift ended and suddenly , mindful of the interpretation that had been put on her being with David Markham on the last occasion they had visited the club , she finished her drink and stood up . |
| 27 | Pilots who were selected for the early courses were from very varied backgrounds . |
| 28 | It was an experiment in participatory research to pursue , uproot and interpret certain facts by non-specialised research workers who were motivated by a personal involvement in the land-related issues of their home areas , in an attempt to improve the structure of their society . |
| 29 | Mention of the press 's glee at the humiliation of the investigators behind this summer 's high-profile surveillance project Operation Blackbird , who were fooled by an obvious hoax , brings out Tarr 's own nascent conspiracy theory . |
| 30 | Highly educated young socialists , some Trotskyist in orientation , who were influenced by the western New Left , have long aspired to form a New Left party . |