Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |
| 2 | Two maintenance gangs who were working one night some distance apart on a section of track noticed a mysterious light between them but despite searching the area nothing could be found to explain the phenomenon . |
| 3 | They joined doctors and parents who were celebrating ten years of research into Rhesus disease.Nick Clark reports . |
| 4 | ‘ Where are the four Marine Commandos who were killed this evening ? ’ |
| 5 | It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism . |
| 6 | Her misery was made complete because she was separated from her two sons who were flying first class . |
| 7 | Okay Although I 'm referring to Gibson 's work , I mean this was typical of the time , there were a number of other researchers who were using similar ideas and notations . |
| 8 | After their stumblings against Norwich and Blackburn this was the mean-hearted fired-up Gunners who were made 3-1 title favourites by the bookies . |
| 9 | According to Mr Gorman , one of the main grievances is the minimal redundancy packages given to the 67 Albion workers who were sacked two weeks ago : ‘ We will be pushing the case for adequate recompense for workers who lost their jobs . |
| 10 | Early postoperative complications were negligible , while three patients who were circumcised required reoperation for haemorrhage . |
| 11 | A GROUP of American breast-cancer patients who were given supportive therapy and taught self-hypnosis to deal with pain survived for twice as long as women who received routine cancer care . |
| 12 | Among the 439 patients who were given para-aortic irradiation , 6 developed secondary gastric carcinoma ( 2.4% 15-year cumulative incidence rate ) , by contrast with no gastric carcinomas in 453 patients not treated with such irradiation . |
| 13 | Studies were undertaken in 176 male patients who were having investigational colonoscopy and who were found to have a normal colon . |
| 14 | Hitherto , only police had been used against the demonstrators who were demanding free elections , the resignation of the provincial leadership of the League of Communists ( LC ) , the release of political prisoners and the lifting of " special measures " which had been imposed amid the earlier riots of February 1989 [ see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ] . |
| 15 | These dynamic people , including Mary Kelly , Frances Mackenzie , L. du Garde Peach , Leo Baker , Robert Newton and Alfred Willett-Whittacker were not merely enthusiastic practitioners , they were far-sighted educators who were giving high status to amateur theatre . |
| 16 | On the other hand we had watched the dismal faces of friends who were resuscitating old cottages and who spent their weekends streaking down to the country to see how the builders were getting on — and they were n't . |
| 17 | Tor goes off to a cottage up the hill from the bay and comes back disconsolate , having been told to ‘ piss off ’ by the occupants who were robbed last week and are not in any mood to offer the traditional Norwegian hospitality to a motley collection of bedraggled canoeists . |
| 18 | Perhaps he is jealous of the players who were offered huge sums of money for to tour , while he was n't . |
| 19 | In the days when there was talk of comprehensive schools being ‘ grammar schools for all ’ , what hope was there for children who were experiencing significant learning difficulties ? |
| 20 | When I was a union official , most — if not most , a good part — of the serious or fatal accidents that occurred at my pit involved men who were working excessive hours . |
| 21 | But do you really expect me to remember babies who were born twenty years ago ? ’ |
| 22 | She was unaware of his scrutiny , gazing with fondness at the two blond-headed little boys who were shovelling gravy-sodden potato into their mouths , an exercise — and apparently the only one — that kept them silent . |
| 23 | Liberal and socialist Assembly members opposed the bill on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and unfair to citizens who were occupying former church property . |
| 24 | English had a dual role ; as Baldick ( 1984 ) has shown , it was initially used as a sop to women who were demanding higher education ; in the very first intake of students of English at Oxford University , the majority of them were women . |
| 25 | Briefly , over a 14 month period starting in May 1968 , 1400 general practitioners throughout the United Kingdom recruited 23000 women who were using oral contraceptives and a similar number of women who had never used these preparations . |