Example sentences of "[noun pl] who had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Romanians claim ( not unreasonably though without evidence ) that Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were diabolists who had arranged for certain black magical and other superstitious figures to be carved in the decorations of the Casa Republicii or hidden in the overall design and visible only to other satanic initiates of the occult . |
| 2 | At this time , the Christian factions within the Caliphates ( ex-slaves and captives who had risen to high office under Al-Mansur ) requested help from the Court of Castile . |
| 3 | It was run by a couple of brothers who had started with one large pub in North London and had built the company , by dint of aggressive take-over tactics and shrewd property dealing , to a sizeable enterprise with a turnover of nearly forty million pounds . |
| 4 | They would be coming back to education , however , to build upon the qualifications they had already begun to acquire , and would feel at least equal , if not superior in some respects , to their peers who had remained in full-time education . |
| 5 | In addition to nomadic Tungus clans and the semi-nomadic Nanai , Ulcha , Udeghe , Nivkh and other small ethnic communities , this brought under the Russian flag considerable numbers of Han Chinese and Koreans who had migrated into these regions as seasonal labourers and agricultural settlers . |
| 6 | Such were the main groups of Cossacks and anti-Tito Yugoslavs who had come into 5 Corps hands by 12 May . |
| 7 | Many of the children , even if not born in Ireland , were of Irish parents who had left behind appalling deprivation in their homeland and whose lives had been one long struggle for survival . |
| 8 | Since , in 1849 , the British had encouraged Constantinople to reject Russian requests for the surrender of the Polish and Hungarian refugees who had fled to Ottoman territory after the failure of the Hungarian revolution , the Turks believed that Britain , as well as France , had their interests at heart . |
| 9 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 10 | The Vice Chairman went on to thank all the people and organisations who had helped in any way and he gave special thanks |
| 11 | As announced on June 17 the offer to the general public was 3.2 times subscribed ; accordingly some of the shares allocated for institutional investors ( in part by tender ) and for overseas investors were " clawed back " to favour ( i ) customer applicants ; and ( ii ) other individuals who had applied for fewer than 1,000 shares . |
| 12 | There was none of this nonsense when The Granada 500 , a group of Gallup-picked electors who had travelled from marginal Bolton to reach London 's Grosvenor House Hotel on Monday for World in Action ( ITV ) . |
| 13 | He carried out 24 tests on 16 randomly selected farmers who had complained of debilitating illness following dipping . |
| 14 | However they confirm that farmers who had claimed for more quota than they had ewes would be given ‘ around ’ two months after the statutory instrument had passed through Parliament to secure their extra rights to ewe premium and to notify the authorities of the transfer . |
| 15 | On July 11 , acknowledging the strength of recent protests by peasant farmers who had succeeded in blocking roads throughout the country , the government made several conciliatory gestures . |
| 16 | She could see Spencer quite clearly , he appeared to be holding court among the elderly distant relatives who had travelled from all parts of the country to be at the funeral . |
| 17 | The pumping was said to be done by Germans , faultlessly disguised as British officers , or even , it had been whispered , by genuine British officers who had fallen for German propaganda . |
| 18 | By the time Alaric finally finished the twelfth Runefang Sigmar has long since passed eastward to whatever fate became him , and the original chieftains who had fought at Black Fire Pass were long dead . |
| 19 | ( a ) How could you test if the factor which causes SAD was lack of light or the cold weather ? ( b ) Would you get more information by considering patients who had suffered for several years rather than only once ? ( 2 ) Bright light is often found to bring relief . |
| 20 | Our review of the surveillance programme had three distinct goals : ( a ) to obtain full follow up of all patients who had participated at any time in the surveillance programme ; ( b ) to identify any other patients , who attended the department over this time and who should have been recruited into the surveillance programme ; and ( c ) to identify all cases of colonic carcinoma occurring in association with ulcerative colitis presenting to the department over this period . |
| 21 | In addition , as the efficacy of a drug can only be assessed accurately when viewed within the context of the associated placebo response , we also calculated the difference between the estimated proportion of patients who had relapsed on each treatment at 26 , 38 , 51 , and 55 weeks , together with the 95% confidence interval for this difference . |
| 22 | They worked steadily , dealing first with patients who had come for audio testing , an important part of the health screening programmes that were regularly carried out on members of the workforce . |
| 23 | My father was therefore anxious to travel to Nairobi and discuss with the Governor measures to prevent these raids , as well as the possibility of delimiting the frontier and finding an answer to the demand by the Abyssinian Government for the return of the Boran and Gabbra tribesmen who had migrated in large numbers into East Africa after Menelik 's conquest of their homelands . |
| 24 | At least three Pakistani civilians were killed and 15 others injured late on Feb. 5 when Indian border guards opened fire to repel Pakistani demonstrators who had crossed into Indian-administered territory near Jammu ( the predominantly Hindu winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir ) . |
| 25 | Fr Antony S Kirupakaran , the Director of Santhome Communications Centre and a member of WACC , welcomed film and television professionals who had gathered from different parts of India to attend the festival . |
| 26 | Baker and Yeltsin announced on Feb. 17 the creation of a new science and technology institute , backed by the US and Germany , to employ nuclear and other scientists who had worked in Soviet programmes . |
| 27 | On March 21 it was announced that members of the armed forces who had left for political reasons after June 1978 were to be reinstated . |
| 28 | Eighty girls who had lived in one of two children 's homes in 1964 , when they had been subjects of a study by Jack Tizard and his colleagues , were traced and interviewed by Quinton and his colleagues , when they were aged between twenty-one and twenty-seven years . |
| 29 | One survey , conducted in 1986 , found that nearly half of the doctors who had graduated in 1981 regretted their choice of career . |
| 30 | It acknowledged the difficulties of the police in a terrorist campaign : complimented the RUC on its restraint and professional integrity and pointed out that the number of detectives who had resorted to physical violence appeared to be small in relation to the total force . |