Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the Phillips curve had appeared on the scene over thirty years after the publication of the General Theory , and that , in the interim , Keynesianism had managed to flourish without it , made little impression on those critics who were determined to strike at Keynesianism with any weapon which was to hand . |
| 2 | This village had been built solely for the duration of the festival , for the thousands of funeral guests who were expected to arrive on foot from the far corners of the kingdom . |
| 3 | Large numbers of recruits to English would offset the small numbers who were expected to apply for French . |
| 4 | In addition a future crop substitution programme was expected to be seriously hampered by the July 6 murder of Walter Tocas , the leader of the Upper Huallaga Defence Front , a 150,000-strong organization of coca growers in the country 's principal coca growing region , by either drug traffickers or Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas , who were known to work in tandem in the region . |
| 5 | Until 1985 many psychiatrists ensured the supervision in the community of patients who were known to default from treatment by granting them leave of absence . |
| 6 | Many of the people who were targeted to move from hospital under the scheme have been in hospital for many years , many of them for more than 40 or 50 years . |
| 7 | Provident societies , often connected with home buying , had existed since the end of the eighteenth century ; in 1872 a Provident Knowledge Society was established ‘ for the promotion of thrift among the lower classes ’ , who were encouraged to contribute to penny banks and post-office savings . |
| 8 | That is , he thought he was still the amiable , easy-going champion he had been , when in reality he was a harried man who was beginning to learn about defeat and humiliation . |
| 9 | It 's this ‘ woman as victim ’ angle that particularly bothers other female musicians , especially Miki Berenyi , who was moved to write to Angst after Steven Wells ' Daisy Chainsaw interview ( wrongly ) alluded to Katie Jane Garside having been mentally and sexually abused as a child . |
| 10 | A conviction ensued where the supervisor had been drinking with the driver who was seen to swerve from side to side ( Crampton v Fish ( 1969 ) , 113 SJ 1003 ) . |
| 11 | Cotton 's nephew William or ‘ son ’ as he called him ( for he had no children ) , was a close friend of Doctor Livingstone , who was brought to stay at Forest House in the 1860s . |
| 12 | England duly subsided a second time , the honours going to Downton who was promoted to open in place of Andy Lloyd and made a solid 56 , but wickets fell steadily and 235 all out meant that the victory margin was an innings and 180 runs . |