Example sentences of "by [noun pl] who [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 2 | Plato 's claims , for instance , that his work enabled him to ‘ rise above ideology and the immediacy of mundane affairs ’ ( ibid. p. 9 ) have been accepted faithfully by classicists who wanted to believe what he said because of its significance for their position in and views of their own society . |
| 3 | It now seems a sad compromise , arrived at by friends who wanted to see him appropriately honoured , but it is one perhaps which he would have understood . |
| 4 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 5 | The articles opened with the comprehensively damning statement that the king ‘ is not sufficient to govern ’ because throughout his reign he had been led and governed by others who had given him evil counsel , to the dishonour of himself and the destruction of Holy Church and his people , and he had refused to provide any remedy , or to allow one to be made , when he was asked to do so by the great and wise men of his realm . |
| 6 | Patrick Furse , 27 , was alone on an around-the-world trip when he was killed by thieves who tried to take his camera and cash . |