Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er but er and , and the they negotiated er a payment er for working in these er cold conditions for the men who were in the machine shop . |
| 2 | We then p positioned ourselves further into the room er P C obviously was still with me behind the shield erm once we 'd got ourselves in a in a better position , as far as we were concerned , P C then started talking to the people , erm who were in the bed . |
| 3 | Another criticism of this study is that the authors only differentiated very generally between first and second generation Asian and Afro-Caribbeans without discussing the implications of mixing them together in the study , potentially masking important differences in the rates of schizophrenia between the two , and leaving an unclear picture as to whether second generation Asians , who were in the minority , benefited in the same way from the postulated protective factors . |
| 4 | But er it , it , it er it appears to have been overlooked that , erm some of the directors who were in the bracket in nineteen eighty eight of two hundred and thirty thousand to two ninety five thousand have been increased from three hundred and fifty five thousand this year to a top of four hundred thousand . |
| 5 | Many people who were in the film are gone now , including one of the girls he used to dance with alot in those days . |
| 6 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 7 | In the same 1943 raid , Torquay was also bombed again and the deaf centre escaped with minor blast damage when a bomb fell on the St. Marychurch building a few yards up the road , killing 18 children who were in the building . |
| 8 | The observations invariably show that the risk of dying before reaching the end of the first year of life is higher for infants born to mothers who were closer to the lower and upper limits of the reproductive period than to those who were in the prime of their childbearing ages . |
| 9 | And they who were in the ships , fled to Denia . |
| 10 | In the UK all Iraqis were from Jan. 19 required to have visas to enter the country , and strict registration procedures were laid down for Iraqis who were in the UK on limited leave ; as of Jan. 29 , out of 101 Iraqis detained since the beginning of the year 42 ( together with seven Palestinians ) were currently in detention awaiting deportation , 21 had left or had been deported and three had been released ; 35 serving members of the Iraqi armed forces were being held in military custody . |
| 11 | Stirling 's old troop from No. 8 Commando had been absorbed by the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards who were in the desert at a place called Bug Bug , from where Johnny Cooper was recruited . |
| 12 | It was railway workers who were in the vanguard of the protest , worried about job losses and safety , but Middle England was also on the march , concerned that services might suffer , polls indicate that four out of five voters oppose the sell off . |
| 13 | At the Westminster election of 1698 , for example , 300 horsemen who were in the service of the Court Whigs , James Vernon and Charles Montagu , charged at their opponents in Tothill fields , and cudgelled them into nearby ditches . |
| 14 | As Lord Bridge of Harwich said : ‘ I was one of those who were in the majority at the conclusion of the first hearing of this appeal in holding that s 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , construed by conventional criteria , supported the assessments to income tax made by the Revenue on the appellants … |
| 15 | My Lords , I was one of those who were in the majority at the conclusion of the first hearing of this appeal in holding the opinion that section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , construed by conventional criteria , supported the assessments to income tax made by the revenue on the appellants which had been upheld by Vinelott J. and the Court of Appeal . |
| 16 | Most of the people who were in the street at that time would have been in one or other of the pubs , but do n't forget that the harbour is full of craft of all sorts and there are sure to have been people aboard some of them . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never known anything like it : over two hundred interviews with people who were in the street , mostly in the pubs , at some time between nine and eleven on the night and nobody saw or heard a damn thing . |
| 18 | ‘ The bodies were found by two young men who were in the area by chance , ’ he said . |
| 19 | As a result of this incident , the Police have appealed to any railway enthusiasts or photographer who were in the area on the day to report any strange or unusual activities about the WSR lines . |
| 20 | There were not enough teachers , and those who were in the schools moved too quickly from one to another . |
| 21 | A mock ‘ Petition of the Pawnbrokers ’ said the petitioners who were in the business of lending small sums on pledges were not legally justified in charging more than five pounds for the loan of a hundred pounds for a year . |
| 22 | Police have managed to track down 30 people who were in the town centre when the attack occurred , but admit witnesses are proving difficult to find . |
| 23 | Three people who were in the car at the time were injured in the crash , one of them seriously . |
| 24 | There were five or six who were in the running for the top places , and there was a fierce sense of competition between us . |
| 25 | Edward ( 1817–1905 ) , George ( 1815–1902 ) and Thomas ( 1823–1906 ) Dalziel ( there were in all seven brothers Dalziel ) , who were in the forefront of the revival of the woodcut after the temporary predominance of the steel engraving , may be bought cheaply in a profusion of books ( if rather more expensively in Lear 's Book of Nonsense and some of Lewis Carroll 's classics ) . |
| 26 | Even if we adjust this figure downwards to say 20 per cent for the pre-1914 period , this still represents quite a large number of women ( 160 out of 800 ) who were in the trade for life , which usually meant until well over 60 . |
| 27 | It were shame , it were shame that those who would er have been the youth section in in the Labour party locally were we people , who were who were in the Youth Communist League , you see . |
| 28 | But , unlike the Jamaican Peoples ' Nationalist Party ( PNP ) , who were in the ascendant , they possessed no clear-cut ideology nor political theory and they therefore were blind to the full significance of this achievement . |
| 29 | The new groups who were in the charts , even as the British Task Force made its way across the Atlantic — Duran Duran , ABC , Spandau Ballet — suggested that , of all things , fun was once again back in fashion . |
| 30 | At the time when he was posted missing , she was in a fever of anxiety about her own family who were in the concentration camp at Treblinka , and even then being sent to the gas chambers . |