Example sentences of "who were [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the arrival of occasional parvenus such as Speransky in the early decades of the nineteenth century , the Tsar was surrounded by military and civil advisers who were bound by the strongest bonds to the serf-owning nobility . |
| 2 | The south Italians and Sicilians , who were to flood into the big cities of the Americas , had hardly yet begun to stir from their native slum villages , the east Europeans , Catholic or Orthodox , remained largely sedentary , only the Jews seeping or flooding into provincial towns from which they had hitherto been excluded and thence into larger cities . |
| 3 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 4 | When I was very young , and indeed Malcolm Rifkind , who was even younger , was my counsel , we represented two individuals who were charged with a serious assault . |
| 5 | Fire fighters from across the country have been paying tribute to airmen who were killed in the second world war . |
| 6 | The families of five young people who were killed by a reckless driver say they 're outraged over a decision to reduce his prison sentence . |
| 7 | Estimates of the number of people who were killed by the military varied form several hundred to several thousand . |
| 8 | Yet these signs in themselves emphasise the provisional nature of the Kingdom , because all of those who were healed in the New Testament subsequently became sick and died . |
| 9 | It was women who were defined as the human agents of infection , threatening national health and security and challenging the social order by their active and autonomous sexuality . |
| 10 | This apparent failure to improve housing outcome is mitigated by the fact that a number of this group who were referred to the Homeless Persons Unit , together with others who went to Bed and Breakfast accommodation , would ‘ presumably in due course ’ have found their way to independent accommodation . |
| 11 | In 1964 Johnson won Congressional approval for aid to pro-Western South Vietnam in its struggle against ‘ Viet Cong ’ guerrillas who were supported by the Communist North . |
| 12 | Dr Pamela Horn has estimated that about a fifth of the Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire lacemakers who were recorded in the 1851 census were under the age of fifteen . |
| 13 | ‘ Some residents who were moved after the last round of home closures are now faced with losing their homes a second time , ’ said Mr Common . |
| 14 | At seven o'clock all the guests assembled in an ante-room known as the Salle des fêtes , to await the arrival of the Imperial couple who were announced by the Grand Chamberlain . |
| 15 | For example , we continually came across white schoolchildren , who were perplexed by the diminishing prospects of employment and who searched for explanations and solutions . |
| 16 | At first starting on an ad hoc and ad hominem basis before the birth of the Romanov dynasty , the system of transporting the unwanted criminal detritus and the antisocial , nonconformist and subversive members of the Russian social and political order — both tsarist and Soviet — steadily generated a huge sprawling diaspora comprising millions of wretched human beings who were banished to the living purgatory of Siberian exile . |
| 17 | It was halted following an incident at the Ballysally roundabout with Fogarty well clear of Robert Dunlop and Philip McCallen , who were credited with a second and third place respectively . |
| 18 | The Dhofaris who were neglected by the previous ruler are now enjoying the fruits of extensive agricultural development , so that the region once famed for providing the ancient world with frankincense may soon be a major source of food for other Gulf states . |
| 19 | They toured with another Leeds ' band , Age Of Chance , who were breaking at a faster pace than themselves . |
| 20 | Throughout his career with Rangers , Sunderland , Nottingham Forest and Scotland , Baxter befriended players cast in a similar mould , that army of renegades who were born with a natural gift for football but were easily disenchanted with the disciplinary structures of the professional game . |
| 21 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
| 22 | Most of the young black people in my study use LE most of the time , even when speaking to other members of the family who were born in the Caribbean . |
| 23 | The search for the inspirational sources of Jack Nicholson the artist , and Jack Nicholson the man , takes us on a far more diverse journey than some of his contemporaries , like Robert Redford , Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman , who were born in the same year — 1937 . |
| 24 | According to these data , in most communities studied , those babies had the best chances to survive infancy who were born after a three or four year interval . |
| 25 | It was , of course , not the Springboks but Nick Farr-Jones 's Wallabies who were to emerge from the restored gold mine shining as brightly as a 24-carat nugget to inflict on South Africa their worst-ever defeat in international rugby . |
| 26 | The experienced goalkeeper reckons RUC , who were relegated from the senior ranks last season , Parkview , Larne and Wanderers will all pose a serious threat to his team 's chances . |
| 27 | As a universal god , Re became linked to the cults of other gods , particularly those who were connected with the creative process . |
| 28 | The average wait for these patients who were seen outside the normal times of outpatient clinics , was 13 ( range 3–104 ) weeks . |
| 29 | Although there was a resistance movement to the German occupation , it never developed on any scale and did not have the support of the mass of the people who were coddled by the occupying regime . |
| 30 | The Government have reneged on all their commitments to the civil servants who were transferred into the private sector . |