Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor will we forget those hon. Members who were regarded as the darlings of the rioters . |
| 2 | She liaised with the RSSPCC social workers on the mainland who were dealing with the children , and conducted meetings in Orkney about the case . |
| 3 | So , while in 1814 the prime criticism of the idea was that it expected too much of human nature , too much of the people who were to live in the communities and of those who were to put them there , while then it was in short a social criticism , by 1832 the idea had become an economic nonsense . |
| 4 | The sample comprised 450 information system executives from major corporations in the telecommunications , travel and transport , insurance , manufacturing , banking , securities , and retail industries who were questioned about the costs and other impacts of online computer system failures . |
| 5 | It is now a memorial to all the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia who were killed by the Nazis — a staggering 77,297 . |
| 6 | Clients of one firm who were pushed into the shares of a restaurant company were pulled out of them once the price started to rise . |
| 7 | Our stronger feelings were reserved for the unscrupulous organisers of this sordid trade in human cargoes who were profiting from the Asians ' misery . |
| 8 | ‘ The Dallae ’ referred to the identical Dallas twins who were consulted as the oracles of the Decoding Room School . |
| 9 | The Collector , for some reason , was attracted to ladies who were overpowered by the fumes of sleep in his presence , but not everybody enjoyed it as much as he did . |
| 10 | The Revolutionary leaders in the capital were divided into two main groups — the Girondins , under Brissot , who were supported by merchants and the middle classes , and the Jacobins , under Danton , Marat and Robespierre , who were supported by the sansculottes ( the clerks and artisans of Paris ) . |
| 11 | All of you couch potatoes who were inspired by the Olympics to take more exercise in future , what about having a bash at the New York Marathon and raising funds for charity as well ? |
| 12 | Although it seemed trivial to high minded folk , like Deputy Matron and Sister Tutor who were burdened with the difficulties of their office , these concerts were so important . |
| 13 | If the Britons who were defeated by the Goths were the followers of Riothamus , they provide a date of 469 . |
| 14 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |
| 15 | And erm also but I I was glad to experience the kind of things that people who were living in the flats without choice , had to experience . |
| 16 | Critics claim that Freire 's ideal was a ‘ classless ’ environment for literacy campaigns , whereas in reality it inevitably tended to be urban , middle-class people who were passing on the skills . |
| 17 | For there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel , and the hum and songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day ; and the merry jests and greetings sent down to those who were passing through the streets . |
| 18 | It was the dockers who were stealing on the docks . |
| 19 | Mr Morrison looked instantly distraught , possibly because of the air which whistled down George 's nostrils as he gasped in horror , or perhaps because of the children who were ferreting down the sides and back for valuables . |
| 20 | The men of No. 1 Troop , all volunteers , included Territorials ( men who had been civilians doing part-time army training ) , some regulars , and reservists like Lance-Corporal Weatherall who were recalled to the colours . |
| 21 | Thus , Barker ( 1984 ) , in her study of the Moonies , gave a questionnaire similar to that which she had given to the Moonies to a group of people who were matched with the Moonies with respect to sex , age , and background . |
| 22 | Near the door there was a rose-tree and three gardeners , who were looking at the roses in a very worried way . |
| 23 | Two masons who were chiselling at the finials which Flemyng had ordered for the gables would stop their clinking from time to time to confirm something that one or other had said . |
| 24 | Frequently women voters said that they liked Mr Ashdown , but only in preference to Messrs Major and Kinnock , who were characterised by the words ‘ creepy ’ and ‘ characterless ’ by several of them . |
| 25 | A group of geophysicists who were working on the rocks of the floor of the north-east Pacific had discovered , before Hess 's suggestion was published , that instead of a random pattern of reversals , such as were common on land , the oceanic crust in the Pacific exhibited a pattern of ‘ strip reversals ’ ; the rocks in each strip were magnetized in one fixed direction , but the rocks in alternate , parallel strips were magnetized in the reverse direction . |
| 26 | The men and boys who were working around the stables looked across curiously to see the strangers . |
| 27 | Ghozali , in announcing his resignation on July 8 , had spoken of " forces who were working behind the scenes … stemming from positions which they had won inside sectors of the administration , economy , enterprise , the mass media and politics " . |
| 28 | A hail of arrows and other missiles could be launched on those who were trapped between the walls , and they would be decimated . |
| 29 | A different , and more primitive , form of reindeer culture existed among the Samoed people of the Taimyr Peninsula who were known to the Russians in the seventeenth century as Tavgi ( today 's Nganasan ) , and the Yukagirs who at that time occupied a very large area of arctic Siberia east of the river Lena . |
| 30 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |