Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh pn] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except in Cornwall , the fortunate few who enjoyed a measure of affluence were chiefly to be found in towns where lucrative guild appointments were available . |
| 2 | It is not very surprising that turnpike proposals were opposed not only by some who saw a threat to their local economic interest but also by others , like the coal miners from Kingswood near Bristol , who destroyed toll gates in 1749 which they saw as infringing their right of free movement . |
| 3 | He did not approach her sexually ; he did not pretend grand passion ; he wanted to share his interest in Møn with another who had a similar love of the island . |
| 4 | Kevin Wilson was another who had a fine game ; he has developed into a player Northern Ireland can not afford to be without . |
| 5 | BOB GELDOF , saint and Boomtown Rat , was another who earned a crust writing features within these walls ( see page 30 for amazing visual proof ) |
| 6 | They had their own pet name for God — He was Jehovah to one , the Lord of Hosts to another who used a plural form . |
| 7 | It was done in 1972 by Black , Jensen and Scholes , 2 who took a random sample of shares quoted on the NYSE and calculated the betas from 60 consecutive monthly returns . |
| 8 | Enemy sighted over St Faiths at 1625 hrs by Red 2 who noticed a streak of black smoke . |
| 9 | We were extremely well looked after by Per Sorum , a sprightly 70-plus year old who had a beautiful house in Aasen . |
| 10 | The 12 year old who started an account of a woodwork project by writing " When I made it I used glue and a tenon saw " failed to appreciate that it had not been established textually . |
| 11 | A BOY of 12 who begged a judge to set him free of his mother was granted his wish last night . |
| 12 | None were to be relieved who had a right to the benefit of the Insolvent Act currently going through Parliament , except by paying their clearance fees . |
| 13 | The brothers chatted with their father Prince Charles and the Duke of Edinburgh while the family lingered in front of a crowd of around 600 who braved a cold misty Norfolk morning to stand outside the church . |
| 14 | It was the more sophisticated who developed a consciousness of human dignity which was most deeply offended by the crudity and brutality of the Russian factory order . |
| 15 | The victim he portrays is Freddie Mills , champion British boxer of the 1940s who became a celebrity in the '50s and opened first a restaurant and then a nightclub . |
| 16 | To one he was ‘ highly intelligent and showing creative ability ’ ; to another his intelligence was not above the ordinary ’ ; he was more the show-off who had an ‘ exaggerated idea of his age and importance ’ . |
| 17 | In sharp contrast Makarenko was a deep provincial who had an independent , determined mind . |
| 18 | Oh god they 're not very good who had an I Q four times their breast size ? |
| 19 | It was the sort of goal that Giorgio Chinaglia — the Welsh-born centre-forward of the 1970s who became a great Lazio and national team hero — was famed for scoring , and how they loved seeing their new idol produce some of the same . |
| 20 | ACTUALLY STEVE Albini is someone you should know everything about , if only for Big Black , the Chicago-based hellcore punk terror band he formed in 1981 who had a parallel career of equal importance with the likes of Hüsker Dü and Sonic Youth , whose best records managed to combine an obsession with the eternally disgustingness of life with a guitar noise beyond punk , metal and , indeed , language . |
| 21 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |
| 22 | It was a well attended meeting , thanks to all who lent a hand . |
| 23 | In addition , Parliament embarked upon a series of attempts to eradicate the practice of the monarch having ‘ placemen ’ in Parliament by disqualifying for membership of Parliament all who held an office of profit under the Crown . |
| 24 | Amidst the myriad of small pro-unity organisations formed after 1946 there were many who favoured a continental federation , with a common parliament , cabinet and economic policy . |
| 25 | No 1 was the calm , pleasant , very attractive , amusing outer woman , the mother of three children , easy-going and casual who had a lovely life and everything was wonderful . |
| 26 | It was inaugurated by James IV who formed a dockyard at Newhaven ( then called ‘ Our Lady 's Port of Grace ’ ) and on 1511 he ordered the building of the ‘ Great Michael ’ , a naval vessel 73 metres long and 11 metres beam with massive sides of oak 3m thick . |
| 27 | At his deposition , North 's aide Robert Earl offered a breakdown of those who knew about the Iran operation , those who did not know and those who knew a bit of it , like a game of Chinese boxes . |
| 28 | perceptions of net bias on ITV were very small indeed , the numbers who detected an anti-Conservative bias almost ( but not quite ) equalling those who saw a pro-Conservative bias . |
| 29 | At the SAD conference in Crieff in October 1986 on " Dementia : Planning Innovative Services in the Community " a debate developed between those who saw an overriding need to integrate dementia sufferers with the rest of their community , both at home and within the various services for elderly people and , on the other hand , those who saw a need to provide separate specialist services to cater for the special needs of dementia sufferers , which had been neglected in the past . |
| 30 | At the SAD conference in Crieff in October 1986 on " Dementia : Planning Innovative Services in the Community " a debate developed between those who saw an overriding need to integrate dementia sufferers with the rest of their community , both at home and within the various services for elderly people and , on the other hand , those who saw a need to provide separate specialist services to cater for the special needs of dementia sufferers , which had been neglected in the past . |