Example sentences of "who [vb past] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who said they never revealed that they have cystic fibrosis were more likely to be employed ( 64% ( 110/172 ) v 53% ( 311/585 ) , difference 2.5% to 19% ) , than those who revealed their cystic fibrosis at job interviews , but the questionnaire did not ask about responses to confidential medical questionnaires . |
| 2 | Our tuition is recognised by the Royal Yachting Association ( RYA ) , who produced their two award winning teaching videos in conjunction with us . |
| 3 | This was a small group of people who appointed their own chairman and secretary , and whose task was to see that the signs LADIES and GENTLEMEN were posted at all the appropriate places in the many buildings used by the conference . |
| 4 | How many people do you know who failed their first driving test ? |
| 5 | At one time it was only an affluent few who owned their own houses or capital assets which they could invest to increase their incomes . |
| 6 | Among those who owned their own homes the party trailed third behind the Conservatives and the Liberal/SDP Alliance . |
| 7 | Bell vigorously resisted the attempts by Meese and others to foist on him people he regarded as unqualified ideologues ; he was convinced that movement conservatives wanted to infiltrate his department with appointees who shared their extreme views : ‘ They wanted to be able to monitor deliberations about proposed actions and have early warning of what might be brewing in suspect agencies . |
| 8 | ‘ I want a team of aggressive players but I do n't want violent men in my team ’ , was the advice he gave to Gimbert and Moscato , who made their Five Nations debuts against Wales in Cardiff , while Simon was made captain of the students side . |
| 9 | We arrived at the border and ‘ commenced battle ’ with the Hungarian border guards who made their inevitable demand for ‘ whisky , chocolates , etc etc ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ We arrived at the border between Hungary and Romania ‘ commenced battle ’ with the Hungarian border guards who made their inevitable demand for ‘ whisky , chocolates , etc etc ’ |
| 11 | Women who made their own preserves were able to obtain extra sugar in lieu of their jam ration . |
| 12 | Some bands who made their own recordings took the opportunity to encourage others to follow their example . |
| 13 | In summary , his research showed that on the whole , supervisors with the best performance were those who concentrated their main efforts on the human aspects of their staff 's problems and attempted to build work groups with high performance standards . |
| 14 | this also held true for the series of men who swopped their everyday gear to sit and drink and smoke and be photographed in a dress . |
| 15 | Most often , they were souls of jilted girls who visited their erstwhile lovers while they slept , stimulating them to nocturnal emissions and general restlessness . |
| 16 | I think of all those using this channel : – people who gave generously , of their good money ; people who gave their physical strength ; people who gave limitless time ( even their annual leave from work ) ; people who managed a little time after work ; people who baked ; people who prayed ; the member who supplied the entire plant stall ; people who counted ; the little girl who devised an amusing quiz as her ‘ channel ’ ; people who served , and often withstood the cold winds of George Street ; people who used their artistic talents for communication ; people who lovingly restored the Church afterwards ; our engineer , who invented a ‘ chair-lift ’ for us , and then , literally , put his shoulder to the wheel – and the bright spark who had fired him with the notion ; and finally and uniquely , the couple in Trinity , part of whose house is always given over to storing books so that this channel may be kept open . |
| 17 | It can be coloured in many shades by adding metal impurities , as the medieval glass-makers knew , who used their scientific skills to bring subtleties of light into the great European cathedrals . |
| 18 | Between 1981-6 , corporate tax rates were much harsher on US affiliates of foreign owned firms , who found their low US taxes offset by the reduction of tax credits in their home countries . |
| 19 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
| 20 | In 1972 , less than 16 per cent of this age group had been found to be upwardly mobile as against 60 per cent who retained their working class positions ( p. 18 ) . |
| 21 | The coastal cities of Dalmatia , whether under Byzantine or Slav rule , still contained many Romanised Illyrians who retained their Latin culture . |
| 22 | Its cohesion was shattered by the rift between those who accepted the Communist line that the war was " imperialist " and should be ended and those who retained their previous belief that fascism could only be defeated by armed opposition . |
| 23 | The highest frequency was recorded for women who bore their first child ( nulliparous ) at ages 35–39 ( 14 per cent ) . |
| 24 | Lawrence and Aldous Huxley who created their own myth of a lost Etruscan Eden . |
| 25 | Some of the non-Slav peoples within the present Yugoslav borders can trace their ancestry back to settlers who entered their present homelands in the centuries before the area was divided between the Ottoman and Habsburg empires , but many more owed their settlement to colonisation sponsored or tolerated by the imperial rulers . |
| 26 | During this time , Henry Spalding drove a wedge into the Nez Perce tribe , dividing them into Christians , who followed his preaching , and the ‘ heathen ’ faction , who maintained their traditional beliefs . |
| 27 | ( 1980 ) found that children who maintained their improved weight one to three years after treatment had higher levels of exercise than peers who failed to do so . |
| 28 | Thus immediately he managed to drive a wedge between the virtuous students , worthy of support , who studied sciences for the sake of society , and the self-indulgent arts students who pursued their chosen subject for the sake of their own benefit . |
| 29 | The list of the champions is headed once again Bexhill-on-Sea , who beat their own record to win the Sir Thomas Pike Trophy with a net total of £28,497 . |
| 30 | Sometimes the skilled were actually a species of sub-contractor , paid by output , who hired their unskilled assistants at a flat time-wage and saw to it that they kept up the pace . |