Example sentences of "[adj] who [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The announcement that the society lacked the cash to fund its operating costs surprised few who had followed that institution 's relatively quiet descent into insolvency . |
| 2 | Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date . |
| 3 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 4 | A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education . |
| 5 | But those who obeyed had little enough to focus their blinkered eyes upon by 1929 . |
| 6 | It was envisaged by Parliament that the services might be developed in a more selective way , becoming available only to those who chose to have such a facility , and it was contemplated that there would not be the same obligations of good taste and balance that are required of existing television broadcasters . |
| 7 | Increasingly Nonconformity was becoming a religion of ‘ gentlemen ’ or at least of those who wished to become such , and gentlemen preferred dignity and decorum in religious worship . |
| 8 | To those who wished to have this discretion , his message was always the same : It is quite clear from several sources that general opinion among the bishops was in favour of relaxations for ‘ reasonable ’ causes , but Anselm resisted every appeal for moderation : for him no relaxation could be ‘ reasonable ’ . |
| 9 | When I went overseas I had graduated from the " Pat and Giggle " stage and could join those who had served several years in Mespot . |
| 10 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 11 | Arguing once more from the personal to the universal , he concluded that those who had done such a thing to him were the enemies of all civilised society . |
| 12 | The defence given by some of those who had authorised this unparalleled act of iconoclasm in modern England , while clearly sincere , points to the narrow perspectives that had allowed the events to occur . |
| 13 | Weaver and his colleagues ( 1985 ) found that residents most able to come to terms with admission were those who had exercised some degree of control or choice in entering residential care . |
| 14 | Her Royal Highness went round the room meeting many of those who had supported this Gala evening . |
| 15 | In their study of the civic culture , Almond and Verba found that there were differences in attitude toward government between those with different levels of education , and between those who had received some formal education and those who had received none . |
| 16 | However , levels of satisfaction were high among those who had received either service . |
| 17 | In the evening the SS troops came to the homes of those who had organized such a happy day . |
| 18 | In each case , MI5 alleged that those who had reported such stories were either mentally unbalanced , or seeking publicity , which was a convenient way of denigrating them and the tales . |
| 19 | Before dusk Holly and those who had arrived that day were taken to the Bath house to stand for a few moments beneath the trickle of lukewarm water . |
| 20 | Those who had preferred that solution were uniformly content with it ; though they sometimes expressed feelings of guilt or voiced complaints about the particular institution . |
| 21 | So now the children of the dispossessed were attacking the children of those who had brought such misery to their Palestinian parents . |
| 22 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 23 | Staff in these homes , particularly those who had committed much of their working lives to children in children 's homes , were distressed and confused by these changes . |
| 24 | This was particularly embarrassing for Bolger as he had been in the forefront of those who had castigated former Labour Prime Minister David Lange for bowing to French economic pressure by releasing Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur , the two saboteurs who were tried and sentenced for the crime . |
| 25 | The failure to hold a vote fed rumours that some MPs had been paid up to US$10,000 each to disrupt the proceedings , and reinforced the belief that those who had benefited most from the coup were obstructing Aristide 's return . |
| 26 | This was similar to the proportion receiving help from district and other nurses among those who had not spent any time in such homes once sudden deaths and those who had spent all their last year in hospital have been excluded . |
| 27 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 28 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 29 | Those who did achieve such distinction , however , reflected glory on both school and teachers , and the English mistress at once saw how to gain advantages all round from Victoria 's unhappiness . |
| 30 | Those who did marry all left the trade , except for a few cases where the husband was a serving soldier abroad during the war . |