Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the arrival of occasional parvenus such as Speransky in the early decades of the nineteenth century , the Tsar was surrounded by military and civil advisers who were bound by the strongest bonds to the serf-owning nobility . |
| 2 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 3 | Fire fighters from across the country have been paying tribute to airmen who were killed in the second world war . |
| 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 | Dr Pamela Horn has estimated that about a fifth of the Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire lacemakers who were recorded in the 1851 census were under the age of fifteen . |
| 10 | ‘ Some residents who were moved after the last round of home closures are now faced with losing their homes a second time , ’ said Mr Common . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For example , we continually came across white schoolchildren , who were perplexed by the diminishing prospects of employment and who searched for explanations and solutions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The search for the inspirational sources of Jack Nicholson the artist , and Jack Nicholson the man , takes us on a far more diverse journey than some of his contemporaries , like Robert Redford , Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman , who were born in the same year — 1937 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As a universal god , Re became linked to the cults of other gods , particularly those who were connected with the creative process . |
| 20 | The average wait for these patients who were seen outside the normal times of outpatient clinics , was 13 ( range 3–104 ) weeks . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Government have reneged on all their commitments to the civil servants who were transferred into the private sector . |
| 23 | After a hesitant start , the other leftwing and progressive parties who were defeated in the first round have joined Mr Da Silva 's campaign , along with the Socialist and Communist parties , which already supported him in the Popular Front coalition . |
| 24 | … 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 . " |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Your conservatory collapses as a result of negligence of the professionals who were engaged by the previous owner to put it up . |
| 27 | Reanalysis of data published in the childhood supplement of the registrar general 's decennial supplement on occupational mortality in England and Wales , which compares numerator data for registrations of deaths in children over the age of 1 but below their 16th birthday in 1979 , 1980 , 1982 , and 1983 with data about children aged 1–15 who were enumerated at the 1981 census . |
| 28 | Commerce Secretary Robert A. Mosbacher decided on July 15 not to adjust the final figures of the 1990 census [ see p. 38225 ] to include those — many of them blacks and Hispanics — who were missed during the 1990 count . |
| 29 | Pilots who were selected for the early courses were from very varied backgrounds . |
| 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 . |