Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early postoperative complications were negligible , while three patients who were circumcised required reoperation for haemorrhage . |
| 2 | And the people who were farming Blind Beck at the time killed a pig and sent down a lovely pork pie to us . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | ‘ Where are the four Marine Commandos who were killed this evening ? ’ |
| 5 | It replaces the system of grants to people who were getting supplementary benefit before April 1988 . |
| 6 | Though passages were booked for Macnab and Margaret Joyce , who were to go first while Joyce settled their affairs in London , the tickets were never used . |
| 7 | Her misery was made complete because she was separated from her two sons who were flying first class . |
| 8 | English had a dual role ; as Baldick ( 1984 ) has shown , it was initially used as a sop to women who were demanding higher education ; in the very first intake of students of English at Oxford University , the majority of them were women . |
| 9 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 10 | Cowley 's meeting with the Commissioner had been successful : CI5 were fully invested with the authority to both guard Stone 's family , and seek out the nature of the person or persons unknown who were harassing that family . |
| 11 | In the days when there was talk of comprehensive schools being ‘ grammar schools for all ’ , what hope was there for children who were experiencing significant learning difficulties ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Jean-Claude was deeply critical of all the French composers of his generation , who were receiving more attention than he was . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When the horses , being bridled to lead them to safety , panicked and lashed out in the dark , threatening to do worse harm to the buildings than the wind would , it was his father who forced his way between them and dragged out the pair who were causing most trouble . |
| 18 | One Sunday when I was attending Mass in the Santuario , I noticed two girls in the next pew who were wearing greased mountain boots and thick hand-knitted socks . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In a randomised study of 16 patients with idiopathic recurrent pancreatitis who were undergoing hydrostatic balloon dilation of the pancreatic duct sphincter , somatostatin given intravenously at a dose of 250 µg/hour one hour before and 12 hours after dilatation reduced the incidence and severity of acute pancreatitis compared with placebo . |
| 21 | Those , like Lashley , who were developing specialized test procedures for use with animals were either using them to explore general psychological capacities like ‘ intelligence ’ or were testing predictions from learning theories . |
| 22 | Two maintenance gangs who were working one night some distance apart on a section of track noticed a mysterious light between them but despite searching the area nothing could be found to explain the phenomenon . |
| 23 | She was unaware of his scrutiny , gazing with fondness at the two blond-headed little boys who were shovelling gravy-sodden potato into their mouths , an exercise — and apparently the only one — that kept them silent . |
| 24 | Dominated in the history books by the Wright brothers , this book brings to the fore the many other people , Glenn Curtiss and Alexander Graham Bell among them , who were making significant progress in the brand new world of aviation around the same time as the Wright brothers . |
| 25 | Studies were undertaken in 176 male patients who were having investigational colonoscopy and who were found to have a normal colon . |
| 26 | A government survey found that , of those elderly people who were having some difficulty in coping with the tasks of everyday life , about half were helped by members of their family who provided help with shopping , cleaning , the preparation of meals and laundry . |
| 27 | Autumn 1945 in Cardiff High School was a season of intensive preparation for a small group of us who were to make that attempt . |
| 28 | Liberal and socialist Assembly members opposed the bill on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and unfair to citizens who were occupying former church property . |
| 29 | In South Africa he came to the conclusion that the Boer War had been fought for the benefit of Jewish gold and diamond financiers , who were exploiting British imperialism for their own international purposes . |
| 30 | For Lukács it was the proletariat who were to achieve this praxis . |