Example sentences of "who [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He approached the Broads Authority and the Countryside Commission , who agreed to fund the whole project , and the first showing was held in Norwich last year . |
| 2 | ‘ They got in touch with the Northern Ireland Livestock Marketing Commission who agreed to become a joint sponsor , allowing our butchers to compete , ’ he said . |
| 3 | That was music to the ears of Tory Euro-rebels who planned to back the Labour amendment . |
| 4 | Who planned to eat the whole world bit by bit , |
| 5 | They were supposed to leave the guns and the car to be collected by gunmen who planned to attack a nearby bar used regularly by soldiers . |
| 6 | It was the latter 's son Joseph , now about 55 , who lived to see the whole enterprise brought to a halt by the hostilities . |
| 7 | If physical integrity is so highly valued , would it be inappropriate to make it clear that an offence would be committed by any normal adult who failed to see an obvious risk of physical harm to another ? |
| 8 | These figures are for those researchers actually finishing their work and submitting a successful thesis , and they do not include those who failed to complete their research , or who failed to reach the required standard for the granting of the Ph D degree . |
| 9 | These figures are for those researchers actually finishing their work and submitting a successful thesis , and they do not include those who failed to complete their research , or who failed to reach the required standard for the granting of the Ph D degree . |
| 10 | Given that the minimum levels of pupil competence were set by each school district in cognisance of local circumstances , a question was raised concerning whether students who failed to reach the agreed standards could recover damages for their failure to learn , if they were able to demonstrate teacher negligence . |
| 11 | Directors who ought to have realized that insolvent liquidation was inevitable , but who failed to take the necessary step to minimize the potential loss to creditors . |
| 12 | Too many years ago to be worth mentioning , I had a boyfriend who failed to understand the religious nature of my viewing , any more than I understood his motivation in inviting me to view along side of him . |
| 13 | He also held public meetings to discuss the concept of past-life regression , at which he would play to anyone who cared to listen the taped recordings of his experimental sessions . |
| 14 | A prime minister who sought to push an unpopular agreement through was assassinated but a religious nationalist in March 1951 . |
| 15 | The rootedness of Labour 's new-found socialism in wartime democratic nationalism posed serious problems to those who sought to use the Labour party as a vehicle for pacifism . |
| 16 | Thus at times one of the Whig connections might work together with a Tory connection in the service of the administration , and they would be opposed by a combination of Whigs and Tories who were out of office and who sought to mobilise the independent back-benchers to put pressure on the government . |
| 17 | One of the most ambitious and colourful of diffusionist theories is undoubtedly that advanced by the English anatomist Eliot Smith ( 1871–1937 ) , a contemporary both of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown , who sought to explain the global distribution of mummification and other exotic practices . |
| 18 | Those fellow-travellers of communism who sought to dupe the American people into arms control at lower levels were not identified but implied . |
| 19 | Lukács ' early assault on Marxist economism , subsequently retracted under criticism from the Leninist orthodoxy of the Comintern , became particularly influential in the post-war period among Marxist intellectuals who sought to redefine a new Marxist humanism against the economism of Stalinism with which Lukács ' name had by that time itself become associated . |
| 20 | On the uniformitarian side , in my glorious over-simplification , were the Whigs or Liberals who sought to dispute the absolute rule of a monarchy as the natural state of affairs and were in favour of majority rule . |
| 21 | Cromwell returned from Ireland in 1650 to lead the English resistance to the threat from the Scots , and by his subsequent victories at the battles of Dunbar and Worcester he thwarted not only those who wished to see the return of the house of Stuart , but also those who sought to impose a Presbyterian church on the English people . |
| 22 | He was the first of a new generation of writers who sought to repair the post-Conquest destruction of earlier pieties and observances by steady persistence in re-creating the past . |
| 23 | It is characteristic of the popular movement in the mid-seventeenth century that someone who helped to formulate an effective compromise on a crucial and contentious constitutional issue should remain so obscure a figure . |
| 24 | The usual instruction was to ‘ provide what is customary ’ , though this attitude led to extreme financial hardship for the poorer classes , though it would not be unreasonable to say that it was they who helped to perpetuate the meaningless and elaborate ritual well into the early decades of the twentieth century . |
| 25 | He is a prolific inventor who helped to start the environmental revolution and , as a result of work undertaken for NASA , studied the conditions necessary for the continued existence of life and found that the Earth constituted a self-regulatory system whereby each of the many variable factors , such as temperature and the composition of air , sea and soil , had been kept within the narrow limits necessary for life to survive for the entire history of the planet . |
| 26 | The immediate roots of British fascism thus grew from those who tried to ignore the real consequences of the first World War . |
| 27 | Some of his harshest condemnations were reserved for those who tried to evade the plain commands of God ( set out in the Old Testament law ) by means of merely human traditions , however venerable . |
| 28 | A SCHOOLBOY who tried to rape a young policewoman ended up by being dragged by the hair to the south London station where she was based , an Old Bailey jury was told today . |
| 29 | She was a treacherous bitch who tried to kill the young king , but that 's another story . |
| 30 | The air on the street was so thick and enervating that the gawpers who tried to glimpse the famous faces behind the tinted windows and security grilles moved in slow motion . |