Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At our conference in November we had a roll call of five hundred and six G M B members who 'd ha who were either killed in work or had died from work-related disease since May nineteen seventy nine those who attended may recall the emotional er |
| 2 | Mustering was administered by the counts , who were frequently accused of bribery and coercion in the tally of the muster . |
| 3 | GERVAIS SINDAKIRA : he was among 11 agricultural workers at Kanyosha Minor Seminary , a Roman Catholic boarding school on the outskirts of the capital , Bujumbura , who were extrajudicially executed by government troops on 27 November 1991 . |
| 4 | What was the surname of the Tory mother and son who were both elected to Parliament in 1983 ? |
| 5 | Fletcher was also denied a chance to check on the form of Kent pacemen Martin McCague and Alan Igglesden who were both sidelined by injury . |
| 6 | They provided a meeting point for people who were increasingly diversified in language , manners , status and even political allegiance . |
| 7 | They found themselves sharing stages with other guitar bands like The June Brides , Big Flame , and Age of Chance ; outfits who were later viewed as part of a new scene with The Wedding Present . |
| 8 | The fact that the three girls who were already employed at Number 147 just giggled whenever I gave any instructions , only made the appointment more pressing . |
| 9 | Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land . |
| 10 | In 16 female Type 2 diabetic patients with clinically overt macrovascular disease , significantly higher serum triglyceride and lower total HDL-cholesterol levels were shown compared to those without macrovascular disease but who were well matched for age , duration of diabetes , weight and glycaemic control . |
| 11 | Key figures in the early evolution of the corporations included Nigel Broackes , Chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ) , and Basil Bean , Chief Executive of the Merseyside Development Corporation ( MDC ) , who were well known within City and market institutions . |
| 12 | At a press conference on May 2 President Vaclav Havel said that he thought that racist attacks by groups of skinheads on Romanies , Vietnamese guest workers and other members of racial minorities were being provoked by supporters or agents of the former communist regime , who were also engaging in disinformation about the situation in the country . |
| 13 | Despite this criticism the doctrine was applied without criticism in the later case of Cinnamond v British Airports Authority [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 368 to mini-cab drivers who were unlawfully touting for business . |
| 14 | Referral to other hospitals was particularly common for women who were initially booked for delivery at general practitioner units : 11701 ( 41% ) of the 28750 women were delivered in consultant units . |
| 15 | But well over half of those killed were young children or elderly people who were quickly overcome by smoke and fumes while they slept at night . |
| 16 | Those who were seriously engaged in geology or biology could not allow such reasoning either , although in a sense it only represented the idea that science can not deal with origins , carried to an extreme . |
| 17 | While many of those who were active in the social movements of the 1960s were distrustful of parties , and in some cases viewed society — an ideal society — as an unending process of imaginative creative activity , without any permanently established institutions , those who were deeply engaged in party politics were often inclined to regard the movements as merely disruptive and irresponsible . |
| 18 | Should a traveller , returning from a far country , bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted ; men who were entirely divested of vice , ambition , or revenge ; who knew no pleasure but friendship , generosity , and public spirit ; we should immediately , from these circumstances , detect the falsehood , and prove him a liar , with the same certainty as if he ha[d] stuffed his narration with stories of centaurs and dragons , miracles and prodigies ( quoted in Freeman 1984 : 95 ) . |
| 19 | Only those who were sufficiently moved by piety or curiosity to go on a pilgrimage to the celebrated shrine of Santiago de Compostella , on roads which took them through Aquitaine , can have learned anything at all about the land which was to be the chief concern of Richard 's life . |
| 20 | The act of conception , staring at a typewriter for much of 1985 in a flat in Notting Hill Gate so depressed me that I immediately thereafter applied for a job as doctor for Amoco , who were then exploring for oil near Morondava . |
| 21 | Some thought that he had been paid to attack the Visigoths by Gaiseric , king of the Vandals , who were now settled in North Africa ; others that he was making good a claim to be the husband of princess Honoria , daughter of Valentinian III , or that he was intervening in a dispute over the succession to the kingship of the Franks . |
| 22 | He retired early in 1981 so he could nurse his wife Ruby , who was partially paralyzed with polio . |
| 23 | In 1589 he married the widow Elizabeth Crane , in whose house at East Molesey the first tracts were printed and who was heavily fined in Star Chamber for her involvement . |
| 24 | A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy in Cape Town , who was slowly suffocating to death , yesterday became the world 's first child to have an artificial windpipe implanted , during an operation by a British surgeon . |
| 25 | The most interesting shows the upper part of a woman wrapped in a cloak , who was evidently standing in profile but turns her Daedalic face to us . |
| 26 | The woman , who was probably suffering from haemophilia , felt it was necessary to approach Jesus secretly because her illness made her ‘ unclean ’ according to the Law . |
| 27 | Some of her time has also been devoted to caring for Michael , who was badly scalded in infancy . |
| 28 | Mr Bérégovoy's's friends claim he had been horrified by accusations of impropriety in accepting an interest-free loan of FFr1m ( $190,000 ) from a shady business friend , who was later charged with insider trading . |
| 29 | ‘ The man who can win the allegiance of the Teddy Boys ’ , remarked Mr Andrew Fountaine who was later to come to prominence within the leadership of the National Front , ‘ can rule this country . ’ |
| 30 | A few years ago , a young woman was brutally killed by a notorious murderer who was later brought to justice . |