Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pinochet on Oct. 23 , 1989 , pardoned two trade union leaders , Manuel Bustos and Arturo Martínez , who were serving 541-day sentences of internal exile in remote towns for calling national protest days in 1985 [ see p. 34347 ] . |
| 2 | Early postoperative complications were negligible , while three patients who were circumcised required reoperation for haemorrhage . |
| 3 | The new rich who were building new houses were only too happy to have their aesthetic decisions made for them by the ‘ professionals ’ . |
| 4 | And the people who were farming Blind Beck at the time killed a pig and sent down a lovely pork pie to us . |
| 5 | It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism . |
| 6 | 17032 married white women aged 25–39 years at entry during 1968–74 who were taking oral contraceptives or using an intrauterine device or diaphragm . |
| 7 | It replaces the system of grants to people who were getting supplementary benefit before April 1988 . |
| 8 | Briefly , over a 14 month period starting in May 1968 , 1400 general practitioners throughout the United Kingdom recruited 23000 women who were using oral contraceptives and a similar number of women who had never used these preparations . |
| 9 | It was assumed that parishes , very largely the agricultural villages of the southern and eastern cereal regions , who were using Speenhamland-like systems of poor relief , had placed themselves on a vicious spiral of soaring poor rates and were progressively increasing the very poverty they sought to relieve . |
| 10 | Okay Although I 'm referring to Gibson 's work , I mean this was typical of the time , there were a number of other researchers who were using similar ideas and notations . |
| 11 | One section of the New Left allied itself to the black working class who were demanding civil rights , and so acted against the narrow interests of the professional-managerial class . |
| 12 | Hitherto , only police had been used against the demonstrators who were demanding free elections , the resignation of the provincial leadership of the League of Communists ( LC ) , the release of political prisoners and the lifting of " special measures " which had been imposed amid the earlier riots of February 1989 [ see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ] . |
| 13 | In the days when there was talk of comprehensive schools being ‘ grammar schools for all ’ , what hope was there for children who were experiencing significant learning difficulties ? |
| 14 | Not that Kimon was the only Athenian statesman who sought to recall Marathon specifically : the 192 horsemen of the Parthenon frieze , begun after Kimon 's death and completed as late as the 430s , may depict the Marathon dead , who numbered just 192 , and who were given heroic honours . |
| 15 | Among the 439 patients who were given para-aortic irradiation , 6 developed secondary gastric carcinoma ( 2.4% 15-year cumulative incidence rate ) , by contrast with no gastric carcinomas in 453 patients not treated with such irradiation . |
| 16 | A GROUP of American breast-cancer patients who were given supportive therapy and taught self-hypnosis to deal with pain survived for twice as long as women who received routine cancer care . |
| 17 | Throughout the dark years , some of the artists and intellectuals , who were given manual jobs for producing unacceptable works of art , met in The Slavia . |
| 18 | The latter were organised by the Habsburgs into graničari ( frontiersmen ) , who were given special privileges in return for military duties . |
| 19 | It included CPCz chairman Ladislav Adamec and first secretary Vasil Mohorita ( who had been elected at the congress ) , and Frantisek Adamek , Jiri Machalik and Ondrej Saling , who were elected central committee secretaries . |
| 20 | One Sunday when I was attending Mass in the Santuario , I noticed two girls in the next pew who were wearing greased mountain boots and thick hand-knitted socks . |
| 21 | I realised that the floor manager wanted myself and two other Muslim girls ( who were wearing white headscarves which covered their foreheads ) to sit together . |
| 22 | Although kin might be an important source of practical help once the marriage had actually ended , people who were undergoing marital difficulties were more likely to turn to someone they considered an ‘ outsider ’ for emotional support or guidance . |
| 23 | In a randomised study of 16 patients with idiopathic recurrent pancreatitis who were undergoing hydrostatic balloon dilation of the pancreatic duct sphincter , somatostatin given intravenously at a dose of 250 µg/hour one hour before and 12 hours after dilatation reduced the incidence and severity of acute pancreatitis compared with placebo . |
| 24 | Those , like Lashley , who were developing specialized test procedures for use with animals were either using them to explore general psychological capacities like ‘ intelligence ’ or were testing predictions from learning theories . |
| 25 | ‘ I could think of individual old people who were inappropriately placed in long-stay settings , or who were creating excessive stresses at home on relatives … and I could see that something more substantial in the community needed to be provided . |
| 26 | When I was a union official , most — if not most , a good part — of the serious or fatal accidents that occurred at my pit involved men who were working excessive hours . |
| 27 | On the other hand we had watched the dismal faces of friends who were resuscitating old cottages and who spent their weekends streaking down to the country to see how the builders were getting on — and they were n't . |
| 28 | She was unaware of his scrutiny , gazing with fondness at the two blond-headed little boys who were shovelling gravy-sodden potato into their mouths , an exercise — and apparently the only one — that kept them silent . |
| 29 | Anti-semitism increased in wartime , and Ilya Ehrenburg remembered an incident in a café on the Boulevard Pasteur when Modigliani confronted a group of card-players at a neighbouring table who were making anti-semitic remarks and subdued them into silence by his withering contempt . |
| 30 | Dominated in the history books by the Wright brothers , this book brings to the fore the many other people , Glenn Curtiss and Alexander Graham Bell among them , who were making significant progress in the brand new world of aviation around the same time as the Wright brothers . |