Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Slavs were one of a score of peoples who ravaged the Roman world , but they are one of the few whose cultural identity has remained intact . |
| 2 | French and Jewish ‘ influence ’ went hand in hand for many Germans and allowed Völkisch opinion on the matter to flourish : slowly but surely the word Völk came to mean not simply ‘ people ’ , but also ‘ populist ’ , and to imply a sense of common identity and of racial superiority over those peoples who needed the French to emancipate them . |
| 3 | The 250 fans who packed the annual general meeting at White Hart Lane gave Paul Bobroff , the company chairman , an orderly hearing . |
| 4 | The 250 fans who packed the annual general meeting at White Hart Lane gave Paul Bobroff , the company chairman , an orderly hearing . |
| 5 | The historical sketch included in Macdonald 's 1904 survey of women in the printing trades states that it was indeed the pupils of Merchant Company Schools who formed the first recruits , and that these were " a better class of girl " , sometimes described as " stickit " ( would-be ) teachers . |
| 6 | The British sweet tooth was cultivated by sugar traders who formed the third side of the triangular slave trade : British cotton goods were exported to Africa , African slaves to the West Indies and West Indian sugar to Britain . |
| 7 | Yet the Conservative dominance of the new government , and their move towards protectionism , alienated Sir Herbert Samuel and the free traders who left the National government in September 1932 . |
| 8 | Here Greeks and Muslims and Jews , representatives of the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean world , had mingled for centuries ; and it was a natural entrepot for the spices of the east and a port of call for the Jewish and Muslim traders who linked the western world with India and China . |
| 9 | He had cause to be ; a number of the clergy who compiled the 1801 Returns saw the improving larger farmer as a mixed blessing , likely to be more interested in maximising his profits than in keeping prices reasonable , ‘ the cause of the dearness of Butcher 's meat , cheese , etc. etc … . it destroys the comforts of the lower class of society ’ . |
| 10 | He recommended such celebration both by summarizing the history of Jason of Cyrene — who gave an account of the events — and by introducing the two letters of the Palestinian Jews who invited the Egyptian Jews to join in the celebration . |
| 11 | From videofilms shown to reporters in Saudi Arabia , and the reports of the few journalists who spent the first days of the war in Baghdad , other successful hits can be independently verified . |
| 12 | Journalists who telephoned the divisional police were told bluntly that the men had not even been interviewed at the time the army spokesman had made his statement . |
| 13 | Like all foreigners who pestered the ancient Greeks and Romans , the Celts were dismissed by contemporary chroniclers as barbarians . |
| 14 | The six candidates who contested the presidential elections were ( i ) Roman Bartoszcze , aged 44 , chair of the Polish Peasants Party ( PSL ) ; ( ii ) Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz , aged 40 , the chair of the left-wing caucus in parliament and former member of the communist Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) ; ( iii ) Tadeusz Mazowiecki , aged 63 , Prime Minister since August 1989 , endorsed by the centre-left Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action ( ROAD ) ; ( iv ) Leszek Moczulski , aged 40 , chair of the right-wing Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) ; ( v ) Stanislaw Tyminski , aged 42 , an independent backed by the small right-wing Libertarian Party of Canada , of which he was leader ; and ( vi ) Lech Walesa , aged 47 , the chairman of the Solidarity trade union . |
| 15 | The results appeared to show that irrespective of retention interval the recall task ( assumed to be a test of central information ) showed performance on the critical slides which was best for subjects who viewed the arousing version of the film . |
| 16 | ( 1988 ) conducted a multi-centre trial selecting subjects who fulfilled the following prospective , cross-sectional , and retrospective criteria for treatment resistance . |
| 17 | Along with Googol in his affectedly fluted black silk on-board suit , these three seemed to be a trio of tall-standing predatory bats who eclipsed the false star-void of the walls , wherever they stood , like dense hungry shadows eating the fire-flies of the night . |
| 18 | Bede represents Oswald as bringing under his sway all the peoples of Britain , divided by language into Angles , Britons , Picts and Irish ( HE 111 , 6 ) , but elsewhere writes that it was his brother and successor Oswiu , who made tributary the Picts and the Scots who inhabited the northern parts of Britain ( HE 11 , 5 ) . |
| 19 | Instead of indulging in childish comments about the number of nuclear weapons , what does he say to the 140 non-nuclear nations who signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty ? |
| 20 | Miss Field and Jane Martin … the adventure puzzle proved the trickiest winners of the books here are Mrs. Windsor and Graham Williams … most popular round was the racing … you all knew the answers only two winners I 'm afraid … well done Mrs. Cullis and N.Bonner … and three cheers for the kids who found the secret santas toys and games have been won by Tim Overton … |
| 21 | In the Cleveland Shopping Centre in Middlesbrough you will find a one-fifth scale replica of Cook 's ship ‘ Endeavour ’ , built by shipwrights from Whitby , the heirs to the craftsmen who built the original ship in the 18th Century . |
| 22 | The earl of Huntingdon 's household , in 1564 , included two yeomen who received the same wages as gentlemen , i.e. 26s. 8d. per annum , and twenty-two more at £1 . |
| 23 | Nor has it drawn large crowds , apart from the 105,000 visitors who attended the inaugural exhibition featuring the work of Dubuffet 's latter years . |
| 24 | Instead it was the visitors who made the early running , albeit by the narrowest of margins in the first three games . |
| 25 | It was the visitors who created the first half 's best chance through their lively striker , Marshall . |
| 26 | They were infected by the ideas of the Enlightenment and were ready to welcome the Napoleonic soldiers and administrators who incorporated the Slovene lands into the Illyrian Provinces in 1809 for a brief , but fateful sojourn of four years . |
| 27 | We felt that it was a great tribute to us and all our many comrades who made the supreme sacrifice . |
| 28 | Aberconwy councillor Graham Rees praised the ‘ Dunkirk spirit ’ which emerged and paid particular tribute to youngsters who helped the elderly . |
| 29 | At about the same time several young Ragusan aristocrats were writing love poems in Croatian , in the manner of Petrarch 's Canzoniero and of the troubadours who followed the Tuscan tradition . |
| 30 | Negative reactions were recorded among church circles , ideological opponents of the regime , the liberal intelligentsia , and some businessmen who feared the economic consequences of the laws . |