Example sentences of "who [vb past] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an editor in Shell Mex house and a frequent visitor to Germany , who entertained members of the nazi party when they visited this country in the 1930s . |
| 2 | Hunt for mole who revealed plans of the Royal bedrooms |
| 3 | Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time . |
| 4 | And we must not discount those who became converts to the new religion , whether on account of the superiority of its miracles — especially its apparently superior powers of healing — or of its doctrine or the example of those who taught it . |
| 5 | Word had quickly got round that at the Marne , in contrast to the generals of the Plaza-Toro breed , who led attacks from the various Chateaux of France , Pétain had moved up into the front line when the infantry quailed under the German shells . |
| 6 | But , with that unpredictability which makes biology such a fascinating science , it was some biochemists interested in nutrition who laid foundations for the next major advance in the treatment of cancer . |
| 7 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 8 | During 1686 and 1687 , it was once again representatives of this English Protestant opinion who made overtures to the leading political champion of European Protestantism , the Dutch stadtholder William of Orange , for help in opposing the Catholic policies of James II . |
| 9 | He was the priest who visited patients at the private hospital on the hill . |
| 10 | Nobody has responded more positively to Newcastle United 's desperate plight than the striker who drew blanks on the big stage with West Ham and huffed-and-puffed little more than powder puff stuff at Leicester . |
| 11 | People who committed crimes in the past 10 years while on bail would have to provide good reasons why they should be released . |
| 12 | Britain has not yet received any formal demand for the extradition of the demonstrators who threw bricks at the Iranian embassy in London and smashed windows . |
| 13 | In the seventeenth century Louis XIV had a sculpture park at Versailles , but it surrounded his palace , and was more formally designed by Le Nôtre , who needed sculptures for the focal points of his avenues . |
| 14 | The de Warrenes had died out in the later middle ages , the priory was pulled down in 1538 , and with the disappearance of traditional authorities attention turned to the lesser but more numerous town houses of prosperous local merchants and the gentry who needed homes for the legal and social seasons . |
| 15 | We are very grateful to the many individuals , centres and organisations who submitted responses to the Consultative Paper . |
| 16 | The MP was one who switched sides at the last minute to vote in favour of the treaty . |
| 17 | Of the 53 farmers ( 35% ) who chose evenings for the 3 hour course , 21 ( 40% ) agreed that they might not gain full benefit from an evening course and 32 ( 60% ) felt that they would gain as much as from a day time course . |
| 18 | THOUSANDS who sent cheques for the National Savings First Option Bond were shabbily short-changed . |
| 19 | Leading them must be R. K. Cope , who took pictures of the trackbed , complete with rails , bridges etc , together with a number of shots of stations with rolling stock standing in them . |
| 20 | The concept was quickly taken up by others , notably Emile Wenz , then by William Eddy and Gilbert Totton Woglom who took photographs of the American cities of Boston and New York in 1895/ 6 . |
| 21 | People calling round from next door for a bucket of water , the elderly and sick dying of hypothermia , or unable to light the house after dark , that 's what Sid , and all the others who bought shares in the various sell-offs have a share in . |
| 22 | HOME Office and planning issues dominate the concerns of MPs who won places in the private members ' ballot for legislative time in the coming session . |
| 23 | In the rest of the country , about half of roughly 100 candidates who won seats in the first round were linked with the pro-Rafsanjani ‘ pragmatic ’ faction . |
| 24 | In many parishes the parish magazine has been in being for a number of years and is a great repository of local information — which event was held by which organisation in which year , who won prizes at the horticultural show , etc. , etc . |
| 25 | The political consensus has also extended to the trade unions , where the position of the Trades Union Congress was dominated by the large industrial unions who had members within the nuclear fold . |
| 26 | That goal was a little rough on St Johnstone , who had chances during the second half , though the best came in the first when Harry Curran threaded a pass through to Vinny Arkins . |
| 27 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 28 | Basically , it was a good business deal for the Minister of Education who had shares in the Japanese company which sold the television equipment . |
| 29 | • only 8% of women who had children in the last 5 years said they would prefer a hospital consultant to provide their antenatal care . |
| 30 | Election candidates in Darlington have failed to meet the Green challenge , according to Dr Robert Upshall , who said copies of the Green Party 's charter were sent to the three main candidates but none of them agreed to sign it . |