Example sentences of "who [vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He seemed more brusque and hostile than on the previous day , a man whose nerves were beginning to fray , a man on whom the pressure was mounting and who had decided to exert some pressure of his own . |
2 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
3 | FRENCH building contractors who had threatened to disrupt this weekend 's opening of the Euro Disney theme park in Paris yesterday reached an eleventh-hour truce with the company over cost overruns . |
4 | On Oct. 25 Bush , who had threatened to veto earlier drafts on grounds that employers would be forced to resort to hiring and promotion quotas for minorities and women , claimed that the compromise met his objections on this score . |
5 | The Land court in Offenburg ruled on May 7 that Dieter Kaufmann , 37 , who had attempted to assassinate Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in October 1990 [ see p. 37763 ] , was mentally unfit to stand trial ; he was sent to a closed psychiatric hospital . |
6 | Senator Dodd , who had attempted to bring more amphetamine use under control , argued that Hoffman-La Roche ‘ paid a Washington law firm three times the annual budget of the Senate subcommittee staff to assure that their drugs would remain uncontrolled ’ ( Graham 1972 : 22 ) . |
7 | I am aware of one educated patient , with known duodenal ulcer , who had started taking this medicine for headache , believing it to be Ayurvedic and despite the facts that it is labelled as containing 530 mg aspirin and 100 mg paracetamol and that he had been instructed by his doctor to refrain from all pain-relieving medications like aspirin . |
8 | This was partly due to the legacy of the bitterness over the 1990 budget [ see p. 36969 ] , but was also the result of an initiative made on Dec. 29 , 1989 , by Senator Daniel Moynihan ( Dem. , New York ) , who had suggested cutting social security contributions in an effort to make the US taxation system more progressive and to unmask the true size of the budget deficit . |
9 | Conservatives who had claimed to prefer contributory pensions in 1908 faced outraged complaints from their constituents about the growth of bureaucracy and the cost to employers . |
10 | The aim appears to have been two-fold : to reassert the authority of the crown to appoint to military commands and , by a ruthless dismissal of the majority of commanders who had come to assume such commands , to make the army once more an efficient weapon of state in royal hands . |
11 | Frigidity becomes the spectre hovering over this transition , should it not be properly accomplished , and the frigid woman was one who had failed to make this transference . |