Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] who [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the inspectors have exonerated three chartered accountants who worked for Blue Arrow , although some of their actions were also criticised . |
| 2 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 3 | For comparison none of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted for HIV , three out of 177 ( 2% ) drug users negative for HIV , and 10 out of 112 ( 9% ) drug users positive for HIV reported bacterial pneumonia . |
| 4 | An Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency report of Dec. 8 said that ICO Foreign Ministers who met for a preparatory session in Dakar on Dec. 5-9 , had adopted a draft resolution expressing " full solidarity " with Libya in its confrontation with Western states over the Lockerbie affair [ see p. 38599 ] and underlined their " concern over … the possible use of force " . |
| 5 | There was also a great deal of indignation among ordinary British citizens who discovered for the first time after the massacre in Timişoara that Romania was ruled by a brutal tyrant who enjoyed the privileges of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath . |
| 6 | Since the age of nine he 's been in the care of Wiltshire Social Services who paid for holidays with his grandparents in Spain . |
| 7 | To see Portillo as the chief axeman even sent shudders down the spine of some Tory back-benchers who argued for keeping large areas of the welfare state out of the Government 's review , particularly health and pensions . |
| 8 | And this new form of entertainment was available not only to the ordinary citizens of the Republic but to the innumerable foreigners who came for commerce or pleasure . |
| 9 | From the nineteenth-century reformers who pressed for universal schooling to today 's schemes for increasing the numbers of girls studying science , education has been the site of the struggle for equality of opportunity . |
| 10 | The connection between modern architecture and tyranny awaits its historian , but it is worth reflecting on the mentality of Le Corbusier and his acolytes before being too harsh on the servile Romanian architects who competed for Ceauşescu 's favour so that they could take charge of the vast projects he had in mind . |
| 11 | But not of course the intrepid airmen who gathered for today 's briefing . |
| 12 | It is symbolic that a Babylonian text records a payment of oil to Jehoiakin , the son of the king of Judah , and to seven Greek carpenters who worked for the Babylonian court ( Ancient Near Eastern Texts , 2 ed. , p. 308 ) . |
| 13 | At the age of sixteen , Coleridge joined the select band of the ‘ Grecians ’ , the school 's most gifted pupils who studied for places at Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 14 | The staff sample consisted of all 56 registered nurses on the unit and all 31 medical residents who cared for patients when transfer decisions were made . |
| 15 | The loyalist leaders who pressed for the release of the arrested officers were handicapped by a coolness just then among the public at the name Rathcoole . |
| 16 | It would be wrong , however , to imagine that the liberals , socialists and democrats of various colours who pressed for more open diplomacy and greater parliamentary control of foreign policy represented a powerful , still less a dominant , force . |
| 17 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 18 | Now the probings of the BBC interviewers , those secular confessors who stood for all the modern torturers goading and vexing him — the critics , the reviewers , the Stroud tax-man who sniffed out Waugh 's lucrative tax-dodges — were inside . |
| 19 | What impresses me is that when the causes of this ancient conflict have been forgotten , except by those who have made a study of it , this monument remains , crudely chiselled and doubtless seldom visited , testament to three modest souls who died for what they believed in and who are otherwise lost to history . |
| 20 | He said that there had been an unprecedented 37 per cent rise in the number of recently arrived Soviet Jews who applied for unemployment benefit in March , as increasing numbers ended their initial period of direct state support . |
| 21 | The final phrase carried a suggestion that they might be willing to fight for the League , but it seems unlikely that this thought had crossed the minds of many of the young gentlemen who voted for it . |
| 22 | LAURA DAVIES produced a marvellous exhibition for those loyal supporters who opted for Stoke Poges rather than nearby Wentworth , with a round of 64 in the second round of the Laing Charity Classic yesterday . |
| 23 | Of course his wife did visit me , but always with her daughters and other ladies who came for regular afternoon visits . |
| 24 | Tonight she said thoughtfully , ‘ The other nurses who worked for you — were they beautiful too ? ’ |
| 25 | However , the furore which surrounded the release of a few hundred tonnes of intervention beef in England — an amount equivalent to less than a tenth of one per cent of the mountain — suggests the idea of simply selling beef cheaply to the European consumers who paid for it would be a difficult option . |
| 26 | 961 patients in rural areas and 1225 in urban areas who presented for screening . |