Example sentences of "the men [Wh pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try as the leadership might to erase what happened , nothing can be done to change the one fact on which the future of China turns : the men who ordered the assault on Tiananmen Square will surely die long before the youth they ordered to be killed . |
| 2 | Clwyd 's director of social services John Jeavons — one of the men who ordered the probe — was not available for comment yesterday . |
| 3 | Michael Maconochie traces the ten most expensive paintings ever , and the men who wrote the cheques |
| 4 | The men who attacked the police on May 1st were members of an organisation set up earlier this year by something called the National Salvation Front . |
| 5 | The men who led the Cracow revolutionary movement ( the Polish insurrection of 1830 ) were deeply convinced that only a democratic Poland could be independent , and a democratic Poland was impossible without the abolition of feudal rights , without the agrarian movement which would transform the tied peasants into free proprietors . |
| 6 | These were the men who formed the main links between the papal curia and the Church at large and who were charged with the maintenance of orthodoxy in their dioceses . |
| 7 | Aeons ago , the waters must have taken a different path and the men who discovered the cave had chipped away the stalagmites to make a passage into the gallery beyond , the gallery where Melissa and Fernand now stood . |
| 8 | THE LAYOUT of the bookmakers ' pitches at Down Royal has long been a bone of contention , with bottlenecks the main drawback , causing frustration among the punters — and no doubt among the men who lay the odds as well . |
| 9 | In the fourth century , Athenian democracy was curtailed in ways harder to resist than a Hyperbolus , who could simply be got rid of : the institutionalized power of the men who administered the various state funds grew in the course of the fourth century , and as such people got above themselves Athens became a less democratic place than it had been in the fifth century . |
| 10 | To find an English ancestor it was necessary to go a long way back in Richard 's genealogy — to one of his great-grandmothers , Edith , the wife of King Henry I. This English link , slight as it was , was none the less well known to the men who frequented the princely courts of Europe , for in their world family connection was all-important . |
| 11 | But as tree crops ( coconuts , coffee , cocoa , rubber ) became increasingly important in the mercantile economy into which the islanders were drawn , so conflicts developed between the men who planted the trees , their sons who inherited them , and the matrilineal inheritors of the land on which they stood . |
| 12 | While Yannick Noah and his players rightly basked in the glory of the remarkable victory for a few days , one of the men who masterminded the victory was already making plans to build upon the fantastic achievements of 1991 . |
| 13 | Since the busy fencings and ditchings of the previous thirty years , the men who farmed the best land had flourished all the more ; they could afford the rents for the greater acreage under the plough . |
| 14 | However , the whole lot of them were being manipulated by the men who ran the music business … |
| 15 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 16 | Tony does n't expect his navvy to turn many heads , but if it makes just one or two commuters appreciate the courage and dedication of the men who made the Chiltern Line , the effort was worth it . |
| 17 | Every one of the men who delivered the caravan is a Plunkett . |
| 18 | I particularly liked a coloured poster , entitled The Men Who Saved the World , sent in by reader T C Raynor of Crowle . |
| 19 | Right : Wonderfully messianic poster featuring a Spitfire complete with nose-art , pilot mechanic and St George and entitled The Men Who Saved the World . |
| 20 | They are the dishes invented or popularized by the bargemen of the Rhone and their wives , and by the proprietors of the humble inns and charcuteries who used to cater for the men who worked the inland waterways . |
| 21 | The latter reaction was clearly predominant in the writings of the men who toured the country writing reports for the Board of Agriculture in the last decade of the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | The sultry air pressed heavily on the men who guarded the farms that marked the perimeter of the Dutch position . |
| 23 | There was no reason for a beleaguered host to be gentle when hauling two spies into their precincts , and in their anger and disappointment and fear , the men who handled the drag-ropes would have made sure , but for Lomellini , that these climbers never climbed again . |
| 24 | The margin of profit Edinburgh master printers made from employing women far outweighed the wages they paid the men who handled the finishing processes . |
| 25 | ‘ He came across John Mann , whose uncle George was one of the men who found the wreckage . |
| 26 | He knew most of the men who used the line and passed the time of day with them . |
| 27 | The men who tended the garden were well aware that to modern eyes this planting scheme was gaudy and banal . |
| 28 | The major grievances were political , although not necessarily dynastic , and reflected discontent at the abuse of power by the men who controlled the government . |
| 29 | Finally , there were merchants , the men who organized the markets that enabled the corn or flour or bread to find its way to the hungry , the wool to the weaver , fuller and dyer , the cloth to the man who needed a new costume , timber to the shipbuilder , timber and stone to the church . |
| 30 | The men who built the Belle in 1959 : including centre , Manager Joe Franklin , on his left Bert Kirby , Body-shop foreman , and right Stanley Holmes the Rolling Stock Superintendent . |