Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LUKE PARKED HIS Chevrolet Celebrity on the fifth floor of the studio carpark and rode down in the elevator with two minor executives in tracksuits who were discussing the latest records broken by ‘ 'T IS He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ . |
| 2 | The females who were played the reduced repertories turned out to build nests at a lower rate . |
| 3 | The only group of workers to achieve shorter hours by legislation were the miners , who were granted an eight-hour day in 1908 after forty years ' campaigning . |
| 4 | The woman 's ordeal began shortly before 8pm on Tuesday when she slowed her Vauxhall Astra car for two youths who were pushing a dark blue or black Ford Escort across the road . |
| 5 | There was nearly always coffee or a huge meal of steak or fish and chips going for any of our officers who were searching the large rigs and barges . |
| 6 | The County Manager said that a conference of Health Board and Department of the Environment officials and County Council engineers , who were undertaking a special study of uranium mining , had agreed to investigate the situation . |
| 7 | They would be outskirters who were getting a thin time and wondering what to do about it . |
| 8 | The rail tanker , which had been on route from Ince to Sellafield , was quickly moved into sidings while fire crews and specialists from Kemira , who were transporting the nitric acid , were called in . |
| 9 | The rail tanker , which had been on route from Ince to Sellafield , was quickly moved into sidings while fire crews and specialists from Kemira , who were transporting the nitric acid , were called in . |
| 10 | The yellow chair , besides being brushstrokes and pigment , besides being a yellow chair , was one of twelve bought for a company of artists who were to inhabit the Yellow House , the white walls of which should blaze with sunflowers as the windows of Gothic cathedrals blazed with coloured light . |
| 11 | The Allies had found their way to Rome blocked there by Germans who were using the ancient Benedictine monastery as their base and flung a series of attacks against it . |
| 12 | In the first row Joseph spotted Tran Van Hieu 's father standing just behind the two red-robed royal princes who were to lead the annual act of homage . |
| 13 | On the same day government soldiers opened fire on two UNITA supporters who were disrupting an MPLA-PT rally in Huambo . |
| 14 | He had set out to try and find a passage to the Orient round the north of Asia in the hope that this would rid the merchant ships of the scourge of pirates who were terrorising the southern trade routes . |
| 15 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 16 | Athelstan stopped and restrained the beadles who were harassing the poor fellow . |
| 17 | Much of Fr John 's time was also taken up visiting his outstations and taking Mass and the sacraments to the people who were visited every three months . |
| 18 | In spite of all this the EC Commission has , from time to time , had to instigate cases against member state governments who were flouting the non-discrimination rule . |
| 19 | In January 1990 ( i ) two people were on Jan. 22 shot dead and nine injured in the gold-mining town of Carletonville , 60 km south-west of Johannesburg , when police opened fire on a crowd of 5,000 blacks who were protesting at the death the previous week of a 16-year-old boy while held in detention ; and ( ii ) using razor wire , water cannon and plastic bullets , the police on Jan. 23 dispersed an illegal gathering of 8,000 demonstrators in Cape Town who were supporting the National Education Crisis Committee 's protest against the black education system . |
| 20 | At a concert at London 's Town and Country Club they were joined on stage by Metelic , a team of Ukrainian dancers from Reading who were given a rousing reception . |
| 21 | If I remember correctly , ’ he says , ‘ for the trials they brought out some legal people , people who were given a military rank and sat as judges at the war crime tribunals . |
| 22 | When interviewed , Clive Howard said he went every morning to feed the animals , particularly the cats , who were given a free run of the house . |
| 23 | The cartel 's leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria remained at large , however , and several journalists were taken hostage , some of whom were murdered , to reinforce the traffickers demands that they be treated as a group and given political status like former guerrillas , who were given an absolute pardon on surrendering [ see pp. 37851 ; 37914 ; 37957-58 ] . |
| 24 | The figures are different to the perception of those not incontinent who were asked the same question : 71% ( 2564 ) thought that the condition would have a great deal or fair amount of effect on their lifestyle and only 20% ( 692 ) not much or none at all . |
| 25 | ‘ The chances are a thousand to one that you might stay here for ten seasons and never see a boatman in a hurry , ’ quoted Sir Thomas loudly to his brood , waving a lordly hand towards William and Joe who were enjoying a quiet chew of tobacco at the end of the pier . |
| 26 | I think the wives found it to their benefit to get amongst other wives who were sharing the same problems you know , how to pay the bills , how to buy food , and I think they seemed to get organized pretty well , they certainly helped us a hell of a lot . |
| 27 | Shortly before her death , Queen Elizabeth I was entertained , in October 1602 , by Sir William Russell , at Corney House , Chiswick , which area was still attracting residents of distinction who were seeking a healthier and cleaner environment , away from the dirt and the clamour of the Cities of London and Westminster . |
| 28 | It might be , therefore , that the 19th-century scholars who were seeking a large Ruckers harpsichord were rather too precipitate . |
| 29 | Diocletian ( reigned 284–305 ) was one of five sons of Illyrian peasants who were to wear the imperial purple . |
| 30 | That was a story Hopper liked to tell , to demonstrate how they were all good friends who were creating a new style of acting ; later , when Nicholson arrived , they had long discussions about this era and the influences it had on all of them . |