Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they 'd first re-entered the apartment the place had been crawling with a crowd of men who were mending the air-conditioning , installing a computer and modem to a fresh telephone line , and plugging in the dreaded fax machine . |
| 2 | Jack now discovered that the Motion Picture Association of America had given it an ‘ X ’ rating and Columbia — who were to release the Movie for general distribution — had a policy at that time that they would never release an X-rated picture . |
| 3 | His first book , Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Puritan Revolution ( 1967 ) , quickly established him as an important contributor to seventeenth-century studies , and put him in the forefront of the group of scholars who were beginning the process of reinterpreting the English Revolution of the 1640s at the grass roots . |
| 4 | Air operations in Hawaii were put under the direction of Lt Col Art Wildern ( USAF , ret ) who hired and trained the second crew of pilots who were to do the flying in Hawaii . |
| 5 | Mr Elton advised the NAPF members to circulate copies of the Fimbra guidance note to their scheme members who were considering a transfer out of the company scheme and added that Fimbra had requested them ‘ to refer any instances of misleading scare advertising , or any evidence of bad advice that results in loss to scheme members , to its Complaints Department ’ . |
| 6 | And I understand that there was a reception which erm in as far as I 'm aware was actually erm organised and financed by the contractors who were building the motorway . |
| 7 | Maxwell-Smith was among 25,000 prisoners who were granted an amnesty on the birthday of Queen Sirikit of Thailand . |
| 8 | Capital money was , however , always to be paid , not to the life tenant , but to trustees , who were to hold the money upon the same trusts as those upon which the land had been held . |
| 9 | She beamed at two scruffy little girls who were pushing a doll 's pram , grotesquely shod in their mother 's high-heeled shoes . |
| 10 | The water bill also includes funding for several large-scale dam and water projects throughout the west , which forced the President to choose between the interests of his California supporters and those in other states who were urging the passage of the bill . |
| 11 | Hope those who were watching the game on BBC1 were as disgusted as I was with Englands performance . |
| 12 | In fact holidays was the the theme taking by the elders who were taking the family service at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 13 | That i it would be the people who stood up first and accused the landlords and took the lead in the settling accounts procedure , they were more likely to be able to , to get more in the way of than anybody else , that they would get more land , more erm better quality land the animals , implements etcetera and those sort of , th those peasants who were taking the lead were actually members of the Party were they ? |
| 14 | I i it 's saying something about the motivation of the people who who are doing this , those peasants who were taking the lead and becoming members of the Party . |
| 15 | The club 's pivot was the drama : its master was Leo Lloyd — the second of those men who were to promote the career of so many boys and girls from the Afan valley . |
| 16 | Large numbers of men were employed , too , in growing vegetables and grain for the army ; but it was not they who were to reap the harvest , for their crops and granaries were either captured by the Russians or burned . |
| 17 | I had a phone call last er yeah Tu Monday night from Warwick University who were organizing a conference at the Youth Hostel Association in York . |
| 18 | Dr Bennett , a fellow of New College , Oxford , had accused Dr Runcie of leading a coterie of liberals who were weakening the Church 's main beliefs . |
| 19 | The tape recorder was used to send reports to churches and schools who were using the expedition to raise money for famine relief . |
| 20 | Several attempts were made to open a dialogue between the government and protestors , who were demanding the resignation of all high-ranking former communists from Iliescu 's provisional National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government . |
| 21 | Special troops belonging to the Georgian National Guard opened fire on Sept. 2 on 2,000 demonstrators in Tbilisi who were demanding the resignation of President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and of the Georgian Supreme Soviet . |
| 22 | In Seoul , riot police battled with 4,000 students who were demanding the arrest of two former South Korean presidents , Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo . |
| 23 | Yesterday there were angry scenes when a tenants ' group held a meeting with representatives of Aberconwy Borough Council who were organising a clean-up of the badly flooded area . |
| 24 | They had also established contact with 40 men under Major Chisholm who were organising a base for patrols from Memo , but contact had not yet been made with Australia , the powerful radio stations on the mainland 's north coast drowning out signals from Timor . |
| 25 | Reception this time ; would I care to leave through the underground garage rather than the front doors and so escape the army of press who were filling the lobby ? |
| 26 | Erm but I intend to er contact them again and say to them , Well you know I 'm still here and should you hit problems or find that you 've just lost one of your erm staff who were providing the kind of services that I do , do n't forget that I 'm still here . |
| 27 | None the less , some statements by members of the Association reveal that the effacement required by this procedure was no more than a tactical ploy , since one of the dominant assumptions of moral education was " that morality was to be made a conscious aim of the teacher , but concealed from the pupils , who were to imbibe the influence from literature as habit or experience " . |
| 28 | After the race Mrs Fagan was presented with the trophy , a set of three cut glass decanters , by Mrs Alan Munns , whose husband is managing director of Munns who were sponsoring a race at Ascot for the first time . |
| 29 | Similar thoughts may have crossed his mind one week into the run when , on the night set aside to entertain employees , families and friends of Irish Life — who were sponsoring the festival — Archaos refused to perform proclaiming to the gathered throng that they had yet to be paid . |
| 30 | The Kremlin leaders were ‘ bourgeois pacifists2 who were betraying the revolution by seeking ‘ peaceful co-existence ’ , which was a contradiction of Marx and Lenin . |