Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She joined Defries and Johannsen , who were vainly scanning the horizon for signs of life . |
| 2 | Further , the decision to implement criminal law legislation did not originate with the state in the narrow sense at all , but with purity and feminist groups who were increasingly taking the lead in sexual politics . |
| 3 | But the photograph resembled Myra Hindley and was taken as such in many quarters , especially by the scandal hungry tabloids who were fast turning The Smiths into some kind of sinister platform for the beliefs of the wicked Morrissey . |
| 4 | Although a library committee of some sort existed before the project invitation , the head reports that : It was no more than three of four people who were simply monitoring the use of the library and keeping an eye on the books that we needed and the way children used the library . |
| 5 | But there can be no doubt or question that , in Oxford in the late sixties , Clinton was keeping company with many who were enthusiastically breaking the laws of their own country . |
| 6 | It rapidly became established because of its immediate appeal to masses of people who were either ‘ pagan ’ , that is , people thus labelled primarily because they had not acquired knowledge of , or held allegiance to , the ‘ god ’ of the Hebrew scriptures , or others who were already questioning the absolute authenticity of the Old Testament as it then was , and were therefore ostracised . |
| 7 | It is possible , however , that Christianity 's greatest early influence was on those of the Jewish faith who were already questioning the manner in which the scriptures were being used to justify the establishment of secular privileges , and were being cited in support of other controversial practices such as the use of the Temple for financial purposes . |
| 8 | She was given extended leave from the show by bosses at Grundy , who were already losing the battle to persuade her to stay on as Charlene . |
| 9 | Someone nicked Brix 's earrings and this lad just walked up and grabbed Mark E Smith 's beer and just walked off with it and Mark was juts like making out like he thought it was really ‘ cool ’ being robbed by these street kids , these really horrible street kids who were just ripping the piss out of them … ‘ |
| 10 | Getting the information onto the printer meant that a page description language became essential if Apple were to avoid the problems faced by manufacturers who were just treating the Canon engine as a high quality dot matrix printer . |
| 11 | A further important point is that on two scores — the overall symptom score and the resistance score — there was a difference between the normal women and a group of normal men who were also given the inventory . |
| 12 | Very quickly , Polanski and Nicholson became darlings of the west coast film and rock-music communities , who were also selecting the new heroes of the screen — anti-heroes in fact — because it was old values that had kept those handsome , pristine hulks of the last generation at the top and old values were now strictly taboo amongst the young and trendy . |
| 13 | Russell interviewed sixth form pupils in the Bradford area during 1982 , and amongst other things commented that ‘ it was disturbing to discover the number of boys who were reluctantly studying the subject mathematics at A level , and were not enjoying it ’ . |
| 14 | But er there were a goodly proportion of people who were really enjoying the er , the track . |
| 15 | However , it appears that the plentiful supplies of sugar were not wholly unwelcome to Soviet leaders , who were still pursuing the consumption drive which was behind the February 1960 agreement . |
| 16 | The platoon commander , a short man with a moustache , a cane and a two-way radio , was arguing with a gang of Christian Phalangist gunmen who had not yet vacated their barricades and who were still guarding the streets , wearing revolvers and carrying carbines with telescopic sights . |
| 17 | At the finish he was greeted home by two members of Hampshire Constabulary who were there to verify the completion of the run . |
| 18 | Last year for instance Barton Shield skipper Colm McCarroll brought Wilson , Winston and Kehoe junior , the men who were subsequently to win the National youth title , into his line-up and Derry battled their way through to the quarter-finals before losing to Belvoir Park . |
| 19 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
| 20 | They stretched their lead at the top of the Premier League to five points , beating an Aston Villa side who were gradually becoming the force everyone else feared . |
| 21 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 22 | The band , who were originally considered the epitome of a brilliant small-venue outfit , went down extremely well despite the vastness of the occasion . |
| 23 | The most significant was in the middle of a prison riot when Gary had joined the roof-top protestors to escape the violence of psychopaths who were systematically tearing the prison apart inside . |
| 24 | In 1860 Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners , who were then operating the ferries , issued metal discs stamped ‘ B'head Ferry ’ to annual contractors in place of the cardboard tickets that had been in use until then . |
| 25 | There are primitive layers , even in modern Europeans who were then fighting the war , which mean that man has a capacity for brutality exceeding that of other animals . |
| 26 | Thus in 1428 it suited the Hungarians to make a pact with the Turks , who were then fighting the Venetians in Greece . |
| 27 | Giles 's proposal to make them subservient to government agents was rejected , but they were given some responsibility for supervising the work of both the regular police and the headmen , who were now designated the ‘ rural police ’ . |
| 28 | They turned their horses away from Saxe-Weimar 's men who were now edging the treeline with deadly musketry . |
| 29 | The result , in the aftermath of the Japanese coup , was that immediate help to the French , who were now fighting the Japanese in Vietnam , was denied to them at a time when the US 14th Airforce in southern China could be seen by the French in Laos and Vietnam as they flew on their predetermined attacks on the Japanese elsewhere in Southeast Asia . |