Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the battle of Naseby in 1645 , Richard Baxter was concerned about the safety of some friends of his who were serving with the parliamentarian army . |
| 2 | Scottish Members of Parliament who were serving on the Committee for the Enterprise and New Towns ( Scotland ) Bill regarding the central provision of core functions in Scottish Enterprise ; |
| 3 | Newcastle were handicapped by the absence of David Bargh and Mark Thorpe , who were competing in the World Pairs semi-finals in Germany . |
| 4 | Where was the concern for the thousands not coming anywhere near the church and not caring about its ethos either , but who were bound to an eternity without God ? |
| 5 | Although they saw other Girls rehearsing in troupe , Elsie and Eddie Port seemed to be the only pupils who were training at the School . |
| 6 | The models , who were clustered at the door , stepped quickly out of her way . |
| 7 | By the time they reached the Mearns Road near Eaglesham and trudged to the wreckage of the Messerschmitt , it had acquired a small crowd of sightseers , who were bantering with the Home Guards trying to keep it safe from looting . |
| 8 | Were these people who were staying at the house ? |
| 9 | The kind of people who were to live in the network of what now amounts to eight properties — six owner-occupied houses and two rented apartment schemes — were not people with severe disabilities and high levels of dependency . |
| 10 | ‘ Many of the suspects who were charged with an offence engaged in plea bargaining with prosecutors . |
| 11 | These were the men who formed the main links between the papal curia and the Church at large and who were charged with the maintenance of orthodoxy in their dioceses . |
| 12 | No doubt there were also older men who were farming in the township , but most farms were smallholdings and their occupants were usually described by their craft names . |
| 13 | In contrast to the melodramatic historical memoirs there is a poignant moment when Suwelo faces the memory of his parents , who were killed in a car accident . |
| 14 | INQUESTS were opened and adjourned yesterday into the deaths of an elderly woman and her daughter who were killed in a car crash . |
| 15 | Among the mayors who were killed in the run-up to the November 1989 municipal elections [ see p. 37039 ] was the left-wing mayor of Ayacucho , Fermín Azparrent , who was shot dead at his home on Sept. 19 . |
| 16 | The poem was n't written to give a realistic account of war but to glorify those men who were killed in the war , to give some comfort to their friends and relatives . |
| 17 | For instance , in a group of patients with rheumatoid and osteoarthritis who were treated with an elimination diet followed by a wheat-free diet , cervical reintegration and the green-lipped mussel preparation , Seatone , significant and often dramatic improvements were obtained in a fortnight of an order similar to , or better than , those obtained by either homoeopathy or Seatone alone over a period of three to six months . |
| 18 | People who were infused with a fervour which drove them on . |
| 19 | Only when she had this data could she say with any confidence whether people who were converted into the Unification Church ( the dependent variable ) were different in any systematic ways from the rest of the population . |
| 20 | Blindcraft employs 85 registered blind or disabled people who were referred to the firm by disability employment advisors in local Jobcentres . |
| 21 | The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) . |
| 22 | Turning to those who were referred by the GP to another agency , a major problem experienced by this group was the length of time they had to wait for an appointment ( see also Watson 1985 ) . |
| 23 | But Mr Humphreys said Mr Robson was ignoring those residents who were affected by the noise within the Memorial Hospital grounds . |
| 24 | He underlines Nithard 's insistence on what nowadays might be called line-management : he reveals that a manager 's problem in the Carolingian palace was the maintenance of good order and morale among the often unruly yet indispensable " crowd " of young noblemen who were deployed on a variety of tasks and errands , especially of a military sort . |
| 25 | The family of a man who was shot dead during a row over a boundary fence have started legal action against two people who were cleared of the killing . |
| 26 | In a limited sense and for a fortunate few who were related to the adult mule spinners with whom they worked , this may have been true . |
| 27 | For instance , there were 400 people who were consulted in the drafting of the Plan . |
| 28 | Kaifu also managed to resist pressure for the inclusion within the new Cabinet of LDP members who were tainted by the Recruit scandal , which meant the continued exclusion from office of faction leaders Michio Watanabe , Kiichi Miyazawa , and Shintaro Abe ( a former Prime Minister ) , each of whom wielded enormous influence within the party and was considered a potential Prime Minister . |
| 29 | In 1222 it was reported to the Council of Regency that Thomas of Milton , hereditary warden of Inglewood Forest , had under him twelve riding foresters with their underforesters , who were maintained at the expense of the Crown and the men of the king 's demesnes . |
| 30 | An inquest has opened on a man and woman who were shot in the carpark of a D-I-Y store . |