Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the minimum levels of pupil competence were set by each school district in cognisance of local circumstances , a question was raised concerning whether students who failed to reach the agreed standards could recover damages for their failure to learn , if they were able to demonstrate teacher negligence . |
| 2 | He also held public meetings to discuss the concept of past-life regression , at which he would play to anyone who cared to listen the taped recordings of his experimental sessions . |
| 3 | Thus at times one of the Whig connections might work together with a Tory connection in the service of the administration , and they would be opposed by a combination of Whigs and Tories who were out of office and who sought to mobilise the independent back-benchers to put pressure on the government . |
| 4 | I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working , Warsaw-based autoradiographer , Margaret Kossut , and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest , Andras Csillag , who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes . |
| 5 | ‘ He had — I tell you this in confidence , Superintendent — he had , on the occasion of the annual Parents ’ Night , doctored with alcohol the fruit punch intended for the boarders who helped serve the modest refreshments . |
| 6 | Mr Bruce Hepburn , the 24-year-old former student who helped found the Imperial Ventures company which commissioned the survey , said if companies did not improve their image ‘ they will go out of business ’ . |
| 7 | Mr Bruce Hepburn , the 24-year-old former student who helped found the Imperial Ventures company which commissioned the survey , said if companies did not improve their image ‘ they will go out of business ’ . |
| 8 | Lisa Philips , a curator who helped mount the trendy Biennials of the 1980s , decried ‘ Eighties-bashing ’ while announcing the trend of the '90s : ‘ Today everybody 's talking about gender , identity and power the way they talked about the grid in the late Sixties and early Seventies ’ . |
| 9 | The immediate roots of British fascism thus grew from those who tried to ignore the real consequences of the first World War . |
| 10 | Some of his harshest condemnations were reserved for those who tried to evade the plain commands of God ( set out in the Old Testament law ) by means of merely human traditions , however venerable . |
| 11 | The air on the street was so thick and enervating that the gawpers who tried to glimpse the famous faces behind the tinted windows and security grilles moved in slow motion . |
| 12 | Like looters after a big raid who tried to steal the mangled possessions of shattered houses . |
| 13 | They are brought by La Befana — a witch who tried to follow the Three Kings to see Jesus . |
| 14 | who 'd scored the bleached heights with a comb of cells ? |
| 15 | However , cultural Russification directly threatened those who claimed to carry the cultural traditions of the minority peoples , from the priesthood to what there was of a modern intelligentsia . |
| 16 | When the owner of the stall ran into difficulties , Decca Records , the main creditor , agreed to a takeover by Mr Ames , who guaranteed to pay the outstanding debts . |
| 17 | Dorothy had dealt with both of them , aided by Isobel 's giddy young sister-in-law , who had explained the social nuances of it all by saying : ‘ That pair of grasping alley cats would tear the eyes out of anyone who managed to make the social pages of the Tollemarche Advent on a day when they should have been featured . |
| 18 | Unlike his predecessor , Avitus was a powerful bishop who managed to harness the local forces which Cautinus had signally failed to dominate . |
| 19 | ‘ Lew was a very communicative chap , who liked to discuss the musical arrangements with the boys in the band , ’ he remembered . |
| 20 | Mr Duggan is quite alone in his view that , to use his word , ‘ most ’ of Welsh players who did received the harshest punishments meted out by any R.F.U. — if you have any doubts ask Messrs Wheel and Moseley . |
| 21 | Another interesting twist to the evening was at the end of the show when the audience was invited to put questions to both performers whose answers to even the stupidest of enquiries were quick and funny with some excellent put-downs for those who dared to ask the wrong things . |
| 22 | This was not an unconscious result of everybody 's inability to be value-free , but an achieved conventional politeness , consciously assumed to avoid giving offence : it also , incidentally , put the burden of being disagreeable on anyone who wished to oppose the unstated assertions . |
| 23 | This added a religious dimension to the debate , with the radicals being branded as atheists who wished to subvert the traditional foundations of morality . |
| 24 | Dorothy had dealt with both of them , aided by Isobel 's giddy young sister-in-law , who had explained the social nuances of it all by saying : ‘ That pair of grasping alley cats would tear the eyes out of anyone who managed to make the social pages of the Tollemarche Advent on a day when they should have been featured . |
| 25 | Television coverage had been scooped up by the BBC , who had realised the dramatic possibilities of the occasion . |
| 26 | Nor had the later overlapping visitation of hippies of the Sixties taken place , who had followed the gipsy processions , of which Alexander now told Frederica , and stayed and sung and smoked and loved and sat on the white beaches , so that the pale sand came to resemble road-dirt anywhere . |
| 27 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 28 | The 23 prospective presidential candidates who had contested the discredited primaries would not be allowed to run for president the next time , and all were banned from political activity for the remainder of the transitional period . |
| 29 | The clashes spread to the republic 's parliament building yesterday afternoon , when suspected Serb gunmen opened fire on tens of thousands of demonstrators , who had braved the troubled streets to call for an end to the spiralling violence . |
| 30 | But when the last apostle died , and Jesus , who had uttered the mysterious words , ‘ There are some of those standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power ’ ( Mark 9:1 ) , had not returned — what were they to think ? |