Example sentences of "who [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manufacturing systems manager Phil Knapper said : ‘ Congratulations to both factories for setting such high standards and also to Mason 's Ironstone who were beaten into second place by just one point . |
| 2 | The Dallas Cowboys , who were beaten by Green Bay , and the Detroit Lions , who lost to the Minnesota Vikings , remain without a win . |
| 3 | The Miyazawa government , conscious of recent regional criticism of the behaviour of imperial Japanese troops in occupied south-east Asia , however , was concerned that Akihito might be embarrassed by questions or protests relating to Japan 's conquest of large portions of China between 1931 and 1945 , and to the millions of Chinese civilians who were killed in this process . |
| 4 | One way to tackle these is to recall the words of musicians who were disturbed by unitary control . |
| 5 | This was a vexed issue amongst solicitors who were affected in this way ; although it was interesting that the committee of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group concluded that ‘ a levy based on an equal proportion of the payment ‘ was ’ unavoidable ’ . |
| 6 | The imposition of taxes without Parliamentary consent in order to pay for these expensive tastes , as well as for the needs of government , angered the landed classes , who were affected by new forest laws , by the levying of the Ship Money tax and by fines for technical offences . |
| 7 | Women workers who were covered by national insurance found that they tended to be submitted to strict surveillance by national health insurance visitors because of the unexpectedly large number of sickness claims . |
| 8 | To some observers , the new generations who were born into this environment appeared stunted and uncouth ; their cheap clothing and strange variations on the English language made them seem like another species , almost subhuman . |
| 9 | Jenny Redman , Stuart Armstrong and Kim Ng had previously tried injecting rats who were kept in total darkness and free from other environmental signals , with chemicals known to be made in the pineal . |
| 10 | The symptoms of 174 children who were evaluated for chronic constipation , are reported in this study together with the longterm outcome in 90 of them . |
| 11 | Although originally the Roman calendar began in the spring on 1 March ( as reflected in our names for the months September to December ) , the consuls , who were elected for one year , in 153 BC began to take office on 1 January . |
| 12 | With a good , happy and well-looked-after staff and a first-class butler in charge of everything , all you needed was a committee of half a dozen blokes who were elected by popular vote to keep an eye on things and keep things lively , come up with new ideas , that sort of stuff . |
| 13 | He must try to communicate that to the children who were filled with evident self-recrimination , Katherine particularly . |
| 14 | In this project as many as possible of the 80 to 90 survivors from a sample of older people , who were selected from two group general practices in Southampton to take part in earlier studies , will be reinterviewed . |
| 15 | Those who were influenced by this belief refrained from setting out on a journey or from starting a major task on that day of the week . |
| 16 | Linkage to nuclear industry databases identified four ( out of 54 ) case fathers and 10 ( out of 324 ) control fathers who were employed at some time before their child had cancer diagnosed ( relative risk 2.5 , p=0.25 ; table IV ) . |
| 17 | I suspect that the hon. Gentleman had framed his supplementary before hearing my answer to his question , in which I made it clear that the number of nurses who were employed during that period was far greater than the number who qualified . |
| 18 | Share salesmen who were sacked from one firm were sometimes made welcome at another sometimes not . |
| 19 | For males aged 21 and over who were sentenced to immediate imprisonment at the Crown Court , the average length was 20.5 months in 1999 , compared with 2.7 months in the magistrates ' court ( Home Office , 1990f ) . |
| 20 | Police are still searching for two boys who were pictured on closed-circuit security screens taking James from the Strand . |
| 21 | Whilst the Bensonhurst sentences closed a chapter in one of New York City 's most notorious racial crimes , a second was opened on June 13 with the start of the trial of three black youths , aged 15 and 16 , who were accused of attempted murder , and of rape and sodomy arising from an attack upon a 29-year-old white female banker who was jogging in Central Park . |
| 22 | One test , for example , that I suggested to you last week which would have surprised Freud , is by contention the children who were overwhelmed with parental investment , particularly by perhaps the parent of the opposite sex , should n't show much oedipal behaviour . |
| 23 | Individuals who were expelled for political activity or failure to meet the fees — or simply for poor examination results — were given additional grounds for grievance , while the punishment of an entire college tended to strengthen student esprit de corps . |
| 24 | He was there as chairman of the World of Work Committee of the Bishops ' Conference of England and Wales to tell the many thousands who were resent despite pouring rain that human dignity ‘ demands that all who can must be able to work to support themselves and their families ’ . |
| 25 | The Free Presbyterians can be divided into a very small group of what one man called ‘ the bible college — God bless you brother — every blessing ’ types who remained distant from politics ; the majority who saw themselves as being unionist , but not especially so , who were forced into political activity by the alliance of O'Neillism and the ecumenical movement ; and a small circle of fully politicized ministers . |
| 26 | The villagers , who were provided with free refuse sacks and gloves by the borough council , picked up litter along the River Tees embankment . |
| 27 | The couple , who were introduced to each other by one of Mr Jefferson 's relatives in 1940 , were married two years later at the Holy Trinity Church in Darlington . |
| 28 | In contrast , the women who were booked at general practitioner units and delivered there had by far the lowest perinatal mortality rate ( 3.3/1000deliveries ) . |
| 29 | Adjustment for birth weight had the greatest effect on the perinatal mortality rates due to immaturity : the rate among women who were booked at general practitioner units and were delivered at hospital 1 fell from 3.6 to 1.0 . |
| 30 | War veterans who were held in Japanese labour camps may be a step nearer to receiving compensation . |