Example sentences of "[det] who [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The announcement that the society lacked the cash to fund its operating costs surprised few who had followed that institution 's relatively quiet descent into insolvency .
2 Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date .
3 Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) .
4 A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education .
5 After the patient was admitted to the coronary care unit the placebo was added to those who continued to receive active therapy , and rt-PA to those who had received placebo .
6 Swings were highest amongst voters who watched both BBC and ITV news , and amongst those who avoided watching highbrow television news programmes , but the differences between these groups of television viewers were slight .
7 Elizabeth was determined to preserve within her church a number of liturgical features which were roundly condemned by more radical Protestants as popish , and throughout her reign she consistently thwarted the efforts of those who sought to bring English Protestantism more closely into line with its continental counterpart .
8 While the continuation school proposal was never a major feature in the programme of those who sought to reconstruct British society , as an issue education was considered to be of vital importance .
9 The LTA has had the support of many people and yet has managed to alienate many of those who wished to support British tennis .
10 One-fifth of small authorities mentioned this , ( see Table 30 ) approximately the same number as those who wished to extend internal training .
11 Bradstreet was a moderate who was increasingly unpopular with those who wished to fight royal attacks on the colony 's charter .
12 But … he devised the first , most complete and most sophisticated learning package for those who wished to study organisational development ’ .
13 The Irish enforced a ‘ Ban ’ on British sports in the sense that those who wished to play Gaelic football or hurling under the aegis of the Gaelic Athletic Association could not also play football or cricket .
14 To those who wished to have this discretion , his message was always the same : It is quite clear from several sources that general opinion among the bishops was in favour of relaxations for ‘ reasonable ’ causes , but Anselm resisted every appeal for moderation : for him no relaxation could be ‘ reasonable ’ .
15 The term " senior dealer " was generally understood to apply only to those who had achieved certain levels of business which would usually take at least three months .
16 About 400 sick conscripts were discharged ( this having been one of the demonstrators ' demands ) , as were those who had served 18 months of their two-year service .
17 When I went overseas I had graduated from the " Pat and Giggle " stage and could join those who had served several years in Mespot .
18 For one night at least , one member of the quartet who hijacked the course of popular music lived up to the hopes of those who had waited 23 years for the moment .
19 He said that licensing justices at Flint , Mold and Hawarden were endeavouring to only grant licences to experienced people and those who had completed various licensing training courses and had passed the British Institute of Inn Keeping examination .
20 After a long and uphill struggle , lasting for most of the 1950s , Margery Fry had persuaded the Howard League and the newly formed Justice to take up the cause of monetary restitution to be paid out of public funds to those who had suffered personal injury from acts of criminal violence .
21 Over a 16-month period , 296 accidents were reported and of these , 285 were falls ( 3 were scalds , and 8 were abrasions caused by wheelchairs ) and the falls were most likely to occur among those who had suffered previous falls indoors , frequently because of impaired gait and balance , associated usually with a pathological condition .
22 It was a triumph for all that was best and most enlightened in British life ; a triumph for those who had preached equal justice between peoples ; a triumph for those who had courageously denounced the harshness and short-sightedness of Versailles .
23 Weaver and his colleagues ( 1985 ) found that residents most able to come to terms with admission were those who had exercised some degree of control or choice in entering residential care .
24 Her Royal Highness went round the room meeting many of those who had supported this Gala evening .
25 Those who had received poor service , he said , could consider their right of action and if necessary start proceedings in the Small Claims Court .
26 Among those who had received medical advice , knowledge of postcoital contraceptive methods differed significantly according to the source of that advice ( table ) .
27 However , levels of satisfaction were high among those who had received either service .
28 ‘ Naga ’ means ‘ wise serpent ’ , the title given long ago to those who had acquired great wisdom .
29 It was also seen as a war of national self-defence against those who had invaded French territory and had incited loyal subjects into rebellion .
30 Equally , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) of those who had taken temporary jobs because these provided a source of training had entered the labour market only in the past I 2 months .
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