Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pinochet on Oct. 23 , 1989 , pardoned two trade union leaders , Manuel Bustos and Arturo Martínez , who were serving 541-day sentences of internal exile in remote towns for calling national protest days in 1985 [ see p. 34347 ] . |
| 2 | The new rich who were building new houses were only too happy to have their aesthetic decisions made for them by the ‘ professionals ’ . |
| 3 | Police in Jersey searching for the bodies of Nicholas and Elizabeth who were killed six years ago have found what appear to be human remains . |
| 4 | It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism . |
| 5 | 17032 married white women aged 25–39 years at entry during 1968–74 who were taking oral contraceptives or using an intrauterine device or diaphragm . |
| 6 | Briefly , over a 14 month period starting in May 1968 , 1400 general practitioners throughout the United Kingdom recruited 23000 women who were using oral contraceptives and a similar number of women who had never used these preparations . |
| 7 | It was assumed that parishes , very largely the agricultural villages of the southern and eastern cereal regions , who were using Speenhamland-like systems of poor relief , had placed themselves on a vicious spiral of soaring poor rates and were progressively increasing the very poverty they sought to relieve . |
| 8 | Okay Although I 'm referring to Gibson 's work , I mean this was typical of the time , there were a number of other researchers who were using similar ideas and notations . |
| 9 | One section of the New Left allied itself to the black working class who were demanding civil rights , and so acted against the narrow interests of the professional-managerial class . |
| 10 | Hitherto , only police had been used against the demonstrators who were demanding free elections , the resignation of the provincial leadership of the League of Communists ( LC ) , the release of political prisoners and the lifting of " special measures " which had been imposed amid the earlier riots of February 1989 [ see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ] . |
| 11 | This year Becker and Graf , who were born six miles apart in small towns near Heidelberg , cornered the major prizes at both Wimbledon and the US Open . |
| 12 | But do you really expect me to remember babies who were born twenty years ago ? ’ |
| 13 | Not that Kimon was the only Athenian statesman who sought to recall Marathon specifically : the 192 horsemen of the Parthenon frieze , begun after Kimon 's death and completed as late as the 430s , may depict the Marathon dead , who numbered just 192 , and who were given heroic honours . |
| 14 | Throughout the dark years , some of the artists and intellectuals , who were given manual jobs for producing unacceptable works of art , met in The Slavia . |
| 15 | The latter were organised by the Habsburgs into graničari ( frontiersmen ) , who were given special privileges in return for military duties . |
| 16 | I realised that the floor manager wanted myself and two other Muslim girls ( who were wearing white headscarves which covered their foreheads ) to sit together . |
| 17 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |
| 18 | Although kin might be an important source of practical help once the marriage had actually ended , people who were undergoing marital difficulties were more likely to turn to someone they considered an ‘ outsider ’ for emotional support or guidance . |
| 19 | ‘ I could think of individual old people who were inappropriately placed in long-stay settings , or who were creating excessive stresses at home on relatives … and I could see that something more substantial in the community needed to be provided . |
| 20 | Two people who were sacked eight years ago from the Government Communications Headquarters for refusing to leave their trade union , are continuing their campaign to get union rights reinstated . |
| 21 | According to Mr Gorman , one of the main grievances is the minimal redundancy packages given to the 67 Albion workers who were sacked two weeks ago : ‘ We will be pushing the case for adequate recompense for workers who lost their jobs . |
| 22 | When I was a union official , most — if not most , a good part — of the serious or fatal accidents that occurred at my pit involved men who were working excessive hours . |
| 23 | On the other hand we had watched the dismal faces of friends who were resuscitating old cottages and who spent their weekends streaking down to the country to see how the builders were getting on — and they were n't . |
| 24 | Anti-semitism increased in wartime , and Ilya Ehrenburg remembered an incident in a café on the Boulevard Pasteur when Modigliani confronted a group of card-players at a neighbouring table who were making anti-semitic remarks and subdued them into silence by his withering contempt . |
| 25 | Serum was also obtained from a further 23 subjects ( 10 men , 13 women ) who were having benign adenomas removed at laparotomy or colonoscopy . |
| 26 | Moreover , several of the leading reformers , who were to become important administrators in local and national government agencies , were also prominent in the youth movement and had no wish to weaken it : Jackson , Russell , Paterson , and Norman Chamberlain . |
| 27 | Free banking was brought in by the big banks to fight off the challenge of building societies , who were offering high-interest accounts . |
| 28 | ‘ The shares were divided among three groups of managers — the 50 most senior , some 250 middle managers and the remaining 700 who were running large contracts , or a group of units . |
| 29 | A few children were also placed with child-minders , who were awarded additional payments by the council if the child required sufficient extra attention that s/he needed to take up more than one place . |
| 30 | The Lofthouse and Middlesmoor Prize Band played a selection of music ; a note in the feast programme remarked on the fact that the band comes from the upper end of Nidderdale , from which dale hailed the Netherdale Singers , who were paid five shillings — according to the church accounts — for appearing at Burnsall Feast in 1740 . |