Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schwabe arranged for him to work for the Clyde engineering and shipbuilding firm of J. & G. Thomson , who were building ships for Bibby . |
| 2 | Yeltsin was given the authority to appoint people to local government , and to suspend the actions of the presidents of autonomous republics within the Russian Federation , who were made heads of executive power within those republics . |
| 3 | established in 1895 by Sidney Webb with the aim of contributing ‘ to the improvement of society by promoting the impartial study of its problems and the training of those who were to translate policy into action ’ . |
| 4 | In half-a-dozen cases during 1989 , the court made it much harder for blacks , Hispanics and women who were seeking compensation for job discrimination . |
| 5 | The dining room was empty apart from a couple of staff members who were laying tables for breakfast . |
| 6 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 7 | A week later it was reported that a two-month-old economic and information blockade was being stepped up by Georgian militants , who were preventing convoys of emergency food supplies for Ossete communities arriving from the North Ossetia autonomous region [ for map see p. 37971 ] . |
| 8 | I was taken prisoner of war at Saint Valerie for a few of my friends in from Edinburgh who were taken prisoner of war . |
| 9 | He added that the freeing of Americans and others who were held hostage by Dignity Battalion gunmen would be ‘ a priority for us today ’ . |
| 10 | Second , the existing practice of the revenue under the pre-1976 law was not to tax benefits in kind on the average cost basis and those who were asking questions on behalf of their constituents would have been well aware of this fact . |
| 11 | Changing fashions in popular natural history did not affect those who were doing research in botany and zoology directly , except through the demand for books . |
| 12 | Viktor Korovin , who was elected director of Uralmash by its workforce last summer , says that its ‘ financial situation is very complicated ’ , by which he means that few of the company 's heavy-industrial clients can afford to pay for the machinery that has been delivered to them . |
| 13 | They demanded that the Shah , who had fled from Iran and who was undergoing treatment for cancer in the USA , should be sent back for trial before the hostages were set free . |
| 14 | In a late November Cabinet reshuffle , Community Development and Culture Minister David Bowen was moved to Agriculture , Food and Fisheries , replacing Harcourt Lewis who was appointed Minister of State in the Prime Minister 's Office . |
| 15 | Other Cabinet members included : Nepali Congress members Marshal Zullum Sakya , Mahendra Narayan Nidhi , and Yog Prasad Upadhyay , who became Home Minister ; United Left Front members Sahana Pradhan ( the Nepali Communist Party leader , who took on the portfolio of Industry and Commerce ) , Jhal Nath Khanal , and Nilambar Acharya ; two prominent non-party opposition figures , Devendra Raj Pandey ( an economist and leader of the Human Rights Organization of Nepal , who became Finance Minister ) , and Mathura Shrestha ( a professor of medicine , who was appointed Minister of Health ) ; and two members nominated by King Birendra , one of whom was Rai Majhi , who became Minister of Education , despite protests by students and teaching staff . |
| 16 | Soisson became Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development , in place of Louis Mermaz , who was appointed Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament and Government Spokesman in place of Malvy . |
| 17 | The seats included Sope 's own and that of President Fred Timikata who was appointed head of state after the imprisonment of his predecessor , a relative of Sope 's who was implicated in the events of 1988 . |
| 18 | The particular object of his fear becomes clear from advice given to his son , Taskopruzade 's father , who was appointed kadi of Aleppo by Selim I. Although Taskopruzade 's father actually went to Aleppo , he resigned before taking up his duties as kadi , remembering an injunction of his father 's : " Do n't become a kadi . " |
| 19 | Derek , who was Catering Manager on board the flotel the MSV Tharos at the time , was directly involved on the night of the disaster . |
| 20 | The attacker , who was serving life for rape , was immediately transferred to another jail . |
| 21 | A British Rail spokeswoman could not say whether the lorry driver who was taking rolls of newspaper to Scarborough would face charges . |
| 22 | The story goes that a housewife , who was making pancakes before Lent , realised she was late for church … and rushed off , still clutching her pancake . |
| 23 | SONIA SUTCLIFFE , who was awarded £600,000 in libel damages against Private Eye , gave a ‘ misleading ’ answer in court when she was questioned about a £25,000 loan given to her by a friend , it was alleged in the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 24 | Miss Jarman demanded of the tall bony female who was returning glare for glare without any sign of backing down . |
| 25 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |