Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funeral has taken place of a teenage soldier who was killed by the IRA . |
| 2 | The defendant who was employed as the manager of a bookmakers only met customers once ( if at all ) as most business was done by telephone and was of a credit nature . |
| 3 | Shortly afterwards they invited the seventh defendant who was employed by the plaintiffs ' group to join them . |
| 4 | A police spokesman said : ‘ He told them he could not wake his mummy who was found on the ground floor . ’ |
| 5 | Following 13 years ' deliberation by a special Vatican commission , Pope John Paul II on Oct. 31 formally rehabilitated Galileo Galilei , the Italian astronomer , mathematician and physicist who was forced by the Inquisition in 1633 to recant his assertion that the earth orbited the sun . |
| 6 | The oldest patient in the study was a 92-year-old retired college professor who was admitted from the emergency department with a 3-day history of productive cough , dyspnoea , and fever . |
| 7 | So she hurried downstairs to fix herself some breakfast — and almost stopped in her tracks at the sight of the figure who was seated at the kitchen table . |
| 8 | An employee who was reprimanded at the end of July 1980 subsequently demanded , through his solicitors , that the letter of reprimand be withdrawn . |
| 9 | Directions were given by the experimenter who was seated in the rear of the vehicle . |
| 10 | A 16-year-old boy who was trapped in the back of the van also died . |
| 11 | The evidence of a child who was taught by the ‘ Natural Aurilism ’ method is that at the age of 5 she is able to talk and play with normal children at a normal school and although she may not be as far ahead , the results of this method seem astounding . |
| 12 | One accident the HSE highlights as a plain lack of common sense involved a child who was left in the cab of a tractor while the operator dismounted to add bedding to a pig pen . |
| 13 | Playboy was described as a pleasure-primer , its symbol was a rabbit and its bait was the Playmate of the month , the girl who was unfolded in the centre wearing a staple through her navel but not much else . |
| 14 | I read a nice one once , all about a poor girl who was found in the snow with a lost memory by a young and 'andsome squire that took her home to 'is castle and — ’ |
| 15 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |
| 16 | The first was whether a reasonable buyer who was acquainted with the condition of the goods would buy them without a substantial abatement of the price . |
| 17 | It was Dobson and his gang who were left on the street , laughing , while he had to slink shamefully away . |
| 18 | , Lawrenceson Fitzroy ( 1881–1975 ) , scholar , was born at 235 Cowley Road , Oxford , 9 August 1881 , the youngest of the seven children of Harry Powell ( 1830–1886 ) , a trumpeter who was wounded in the charge of the Light Brigade of 1854 and who published his Recollections in 1876 , and his wife Anne Budd of Oxford . |
| 19 | Figure 2.8 shows the numbers of men and women in Great Britain at the time of the 1981 Census who were employed in the various OPCS social classes or out of employment . |
| 20 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 21 | Rogelio Ramirez de la O , a Mexico City economist who was ridiculed by the government last year for predicting so large a deficit , now says that a big peso devaluation ( of perhaps 15% ) is four months off . |
| 22 | FOR a writer who was put in the ‘ Garbage School of Literature ’ along with Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner by the editor of the Jackson Daily News , Eudora Welty has done well for herself . |
| 23 | The House of Mattli was a husband and wife team who were numbered amongst the top ten names in the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | However one particular champion of the potato was Antoine-Augustin Parmentier a French chemist who was captured by the Germans during the Seven Years War and survived largely on a diet of potatoes . |
| 26 | The band who were committed to the Abba revival and flares fives years ago have come out of retirement and intend to convert a whole new audience to their zany cocktail of punk , glam and psychedelia . |
| 27 | He 's a young lad who was employed in the house here , living in . |
| 28 | A Zimbabwean tobacco-farming friend who was tackled about the wider implications of his livelihood , claimed that ‘ people are old enough to look after themselves ’ — a view which is quite unjustified in view of the tobacco industry 's ugly marketing techniques . |
| 29 | And it was n't just the hedgehog 's best friend who was honoured by the Queen today . |
| 30 | Jason , Pringle 's friend who was shot in the leg at Stillington , is ‘ stable ’ . |