Example sentences of "the [noun pl] who have been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Rajputs who had been in the lead took the full force of the barrage ; the new conscripts behind them turned and fled .
2 Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow .
3 ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said .
4 One knew the troops who had been in action .
5 He asked for prayer about the journey to Jerusalem , knowing the tensions that existed between the Christians who had been of the Jewish faith , and those who were converted Gentiles .
6 It consisted of the advisory teacher , an educational psychologist and sixteen of the teachers who had been at the course .
7 Mahmoud had traced the girls who had been on the Prince 's dahabeeyah and wanted Owen 's help in interviewing them .
8 Many of the girls who had been in her class at school , had they been told about it , would have scoffed at the coyness and naïvety of Marie 's fantasy .
9 Er several of the girls who had been in the mother and baby home , were housed in the flats .
10 This could be the conversation of some of the ladies who had been in the church on that occasion :
11 He imagined with pleasure the bollocking that would be administered to the men who had been on duty the previous night .
12 Billy Smallbury , one of the men who had been in the cart , climbed up with a bucket of water , to throw water on Gabriel and keep the flames off him .
13 The growth in the numbers who have been without work for a year or more has been perhaps the most disturbing aspect of today 's unemployment , despite the Department of Employment 's interviewing of all the long-term unemployed , and the Government 's recent recognition of the need to direct job appointments at those who have been standing in the queue longest .
14 Like Brillat-Savarin 's famous fondue and the fonduta of Piedmont , the fondue of Franche-Comté is really a cream of eggs and cheese ( not , be it noted , scrambled eggs and cheese ) and has been rejected , I fancy , as being unauthentic either because it is more difficult to cook correctly than the Swiss version or because it is the cheese purveyors rather than the egg-marketeers who have been on the job .
15 That in turn apparently provoked a great argument afterwards among the students who had been in the congregation , with much quotation of Darwin and some rumblings among the creationists present .
16 Had a nice letter from one of the Romanian boys you met very concerned about my job position — he had heard from one of the others who 'd been in London in the summer and saw
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