Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early postoperative complications were negligible , while three patients who were circumcised required reoperation for haemorrhage . |
| 2 | Thirty five people who were killed that day and remember that on Yorkshire television it 's been established that there were and this is something you got ta over , people like you had got the ear of the Special Branch and murky people in the establishment of the |
| 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 | ‘ Where are the four Marine Commandos who were killed this evening ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But do you really expect me to remember babies who were born twenty years ago ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Among the 439 patients who were given para-aortic irradiation , 6 developed secondary gastric carcinoma ( 2.4% 15-year cumulative incidence rate ) , by contrast with no gastric carcinomas in 453 patients not treated with such irradiation . |
| 9 | A GROUP of American breast-cancer patients who were given supportive therapy and taught self-hypnosis to deal with pain survived for twice as long as women who received routine cancer care . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The latter were organised by the Habsburgs into graničari ( frontiersmen ) , who were given special privileges in return for military duties . |
| 12 | After their stumblings against Norwich and Blackburn this was the mean-hearted fired-up Gunners who were made 3-1 title favourites by the bookies . |
| 13 | It included CPCz chairman Ladislav Adamec and first secretary Vasil Mohorita ( who had been elected at the congress ) , and Frantisek Adamek , Jiri Machalik and Ondrej Saling , who were elected central committee secretaries . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | Tor goes off to a cottage up the hill from the bay and comes back disconsolate , having been told to ‘ piss off ’ by the occupants who were robbed last week and are not in any mood to offer the traditional Norwegian hospitality to a motley collection of bedraggled canoeists . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Living standards for most of the population were lower in India than in western Europe and silver bullion , which was the nearest thing to a common international currency at the time , had a higher purchasing power in India than in Europe , so that anything made by people who were paid European wages would be expensive in terms of silver in India . |
| 21 | Perhaps he is jealous of the players who were offered huge sums of money for to tour , while he was n't . |
| 22 | The journalists , who were allowed free access to the site and were able to file reports without censorship , found no evidence of a military presence within the bunker which had been constructed as a civilian shelter during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 23 | They were among 11 workers from the Bindery section of the company who were told this week that they no longer had a job . |
| 24 | Stephen Pinsent , a former weightlifting champion who was jailed last month for supplying anabolic steroids , had his three-month sentence reduced to 28 days by the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 25 | It could have been your child , your parent , or your friend who was killed that day . |
| 26 | For those tiring of today 's political grand prix scene , Gerald Donaldson 's Gilles Villeneuve — The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver represents a long-overdue memorial to the heroic Canadian driver who was killed seven years ago practising in his Ferrari for the Belgian Grand Prix . |
| 27 | An example is the appalling tragedy of lorry driver Leslie Parsons , who was killed last February when he was just doing his job . |
| 28 | The need for guidance on restraint has been fed by the intense media attention on lack of control in homes , which is said to have allowed young people to abscond — such as the case of Sally Ann Catell , who was killed last month in Birmingham while driving a stolen car . |
| 29 | At Alcala 's adult education centre , one toothless old woman in slippers sang her a flamenco lament about a lovely but strong-headed girl from the next village who was stabbed seven times by her jealous husband . |
| 30 | THE vigilante businessman who was cleared last week of murdering a suspected car vandal was jailed for 18 months yesterday for an alternative charge of affray . |