Example sentences of "who [vb past] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the mandarins , at Permanent Secretary level , Sir John Maud ( who succeeded Fergusson in 1952 ) was to outlast Citrine , and his smoothing magisterial presence was an important influence in questions such as board appointments ( reserved for the Minister 's private office ) and fuel industry coordination ( which brought together the various Ministry divisions ‘ sponsoring ’ each energy industry ) . |
| 2 | The bases were , in the event , guarded by Eden , who succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister in April 1955 . |
| 3 | Before the end of the century one of its graduates had risen to be chancellor ( Baron Thugut , who succeeded Kaunitz in 1793 ) and in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries several others ( Haymerle , Burian and Czernin ) reached similar heights . |
| 4 | The repertoire of insult was colourful : ‘ Left-wing bleeding hearts ’ , ‘ Parlour Pinks and Parlour Punks ’ , ‘ Egg-sucking phony liberals ’ and ‘ Communists and queers who sold China into atheistic slavery ’ . |
| 5 | At night the coffee-sellers and the men who sold cups of hot sago brought their wares , too ; and all through the day there were sweet-sellers and nougat-sellers and nut-sellers and lemonade-sellers and tea-sellers and pie-sellers and cake-sellers — everything the sweet-toothed Egyptian might be persuaded to spend his little money on . |
| 6 | In 1566 it was still incomplete and easily fell to the French corsairs who attacked Funchal in that year . |
| 7 | Eszterhas got the idea for the story when he visited Nebraska in 1988 and talked to cowpokes who revealed details of intimate extra-curricular farmyard activity . |
| 8 | His is the great name in Béarn , as the local king who became king of all France . |
| 9 | Jagdish Gorburdhun ( MSM ) , hitherto Minister of Health , took over Co-operatives from Viswanath Sajadah ( the sole remaining MLP member of the Cabinet , who became Minister of Social Security . |
| 10 | He writes : Molla Hacihasanzade , who became kazasker for twenty-five years continuously through purposing the turning away and hindering of those capable of achieving renown by directing them to the path of kaza [ kadilik ] and of those who were spoken of as outstanding in excellence among their contemporaries by impeding their passage through the ranks ; and who had by this stratagem , over so long a period , found safety from the crush of those ulema who , by right of learning and excellence , might have passed through the ranks and become rivals to him … |
| 11 | William Latimer , who became Chamberlain in 1371 , was a figure of rather more political consequence and seems to have been regarded as the leader of the group around the king . |
| 12 | Carson ( 1854–1935 ) was a Dublin-born Anglo-Irish lawyer , a famous barrister at both Bars , and a Conservative MP who became solicitor-general in 1900 . |
| 13 | Local publicity soon established her to be Louisa Kruckenberg , whose father , the Rev Frederick Thomas Kruckenberg , who became vicar of Lower Dunsforth , between Boroughbridge and York , in 1911 . |
| 14 | Although it is generally supposed that the first truly mechanical escapement was of the verge-and-foliot type found in various church clocks throughout Europe , the earliest escapement of which we have definite detailed knowledge is that of the clock designed for the Abbey of St Albans c.1328 by Richard of Wallingford ( c.1292–1336 ) , the son of a blacksmith , who became Abbot in 1327 . |
| 15 | Gregory XI , who became pope in 1370 , at once initiated peace moves , following which negotiations were conducted at Bruges in 1374 and 1375 ; unfortunately , as much because of English obstinacy as of French , only a truce until April 1377 was effected , while all the time the French threat grew more menacing , with the consequence that papal efforts again incurred suspicion . |
| 16 | The burden of the message from schoolmaster Olver , who led Quins for three seasons before a head of department post took him to Northampton in 1990 , will be about debts — moral , not financial . |
| 17 | The late Victorian period was the first in which there were considerable numbers of agnostics , atheists and opponents of organized religion who led lives of exemplary respectability ; it could not be urged of Huxley , Clifford or Tyndall that they were irreligious because they were libertines , like the earlier ungodly . |
| 18 | More than 160 officers who rebelled against President Menem 's predecessor , Raul Alfonsin , were also pardoned , notably Lieutenant-Colonel Aldo Rico and Colonel Mohamed Ali Seineldin , who led revolts in 1987 and 1988 . |
| 19 | The depressing news for the Iron Lady who ruled Britain for 11 years is that nine out of ten can not recall the day she quit , according to research revealed yesterday at the British Psychological Society 's London conference . |
| 20 | If I can demonstrate that the Kaiser himself , the monarch who ruled Germany for thirty years until nineteen eighteen , had ideas very similar if not identical to those of Hitler 's , at a time when he was not in contact with Hitler , when Hitler 's party was nowhere in political terms , then I think that 's yet another very important indication that there is continuity in German history from say the Bismarckian period through to nineteen forty-five , and that Hitler stands in that national tradition , and is not some kind of lightning erm that , that struck Germany erm from a blue sky . |
| 21 | Michael Wittet : CA who passed exams in German prison camp |
| 22 | The BBC 's coverage of the election caused great offence to Mr Major and senior Tories , who voiced concern in private that it wanted to see the return of a Labour government to safeguard its future . |
| 23 | One month later Glassford was reported to be completing the work of preparing nominal votes , and in this his lawyer , who lacked experience in such matters , was being helped by the agent of Lord Dundas , who clearly considered him still an ally , but on August 6th , Glassford removed such illusions by making it quite plain that he meant what he had said about his price for support , and denied that he was in any way pledged to Lord Dundas : |
| 24 | Under pressure from the aggrieved Junkers , the Prussian government responded by pushing 30,000 Poles who lacked proof of Prussian citizenship across the border into Russian Poland in 1885 . |
| 25 | American sympathy with Chinese dissenters , inspired by the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989 , is such that Chinese refugees have no difficulty in proving that they are in danger of persecution at home : of the 3,440 Chinese who sought asylum in 1992 , only 89 were rejected . |
| 26 | For those who sought symbols in inanimate objects its message was both simple and expedient , that man , by his own intelligence and his own efforts , could understand and master his world , could make his transitory life more agreeable , more comfortable , more free of pain . |
| 27 | And , when she reached the wireless office , men who might resent her being there and fiends who transmitted Morse at devilish speeds … |
| 28 | However , a rather more theoretically informed use of secondary data is exemplified in the work of , again , Durkheim who made use of official statistics in his study of suicides in Europe , particularly France , to demonstrate the validity of his theories of the social causation of suicidal behaviour ; an objective for which the original statistics were not intended . |
| 29 | Mind you , rumours also link Wahl to Northern Transvaal , although Transvaal , the side who ditched Wahl in 1989 , will make a strong bid for the flanker 's services . |
| 30 | We often meet people who are in in their forties and fifties on er early retirement and little bit difficult to get over the message they do n't they do n't see it as retirement and yet surprisingly very few of the people who got redundancy at forty and forty five and fifty seem to be bothered about taking up other work at all that . |