Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LUKE PARKED HIS Chevrolet Celebrity on the fifth floor of the studio carpark and rode down in the elevator with two minor executives in tracksuits who were discussing the latest records broken by ‘ 'T IS He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ . |
| 2 | The females who were played the reduced repertories turned out to build nests at a lower rate . |
| 3 | There was nearly always coffee or a huge meal of steak or fish and chips going for any of our officers who were searching the large rigs and barges . |
| 4 | The rail tanker , which had been on route from Ince to Sellafield , was quickly moved into sidings while fire crews and specialists from Kemira , who were transporting the nitric acid , were called in . |
| 5 | The rail tanker , which had been on route from Ince to Sellafield , was quickly moved into sidings while fire crews and specialists from Kemira , who were transporting the nitric acid , were called in . |
| 6 | The yellow chair , besides being brushstrokes and pigment , besides being a yellow chair , was one of twelve bought for a company of artists who were to inhabit the Yellow House , the white walls of which should blaze with sunflowers as the windows of Gothic cathedrals blazed with coloured light . |
| 7 | The Allies had found their way to Rome blocked there by Germans who were using the ancient Benedictine monastery as their base and flung a series of attacks against it . |
| 8 | In the first row Joseph spotted Tran Van Hieu 's father standing just behind the two red-robed royal princes who were to lead the annual act of homage . |
| 9 | He had set out to try and find a passage to the Orient round the north of Asia in the hope that this would rid the merchant ships of the scourge of pirates who were terrorising the southern trade routes . |
| 10 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 11 | Athelstan stopped and restrained the beadles who were harassing the poor fellow . |
| 12 | In spite of all this the EC Commission has , from time to time , had to instigate cases against member state governments who were flouting the non-discrimination rule . |
| 13 | In January 1990 ( i ) two people were on Jan. 22 shot dead and nine injured in the gold-mining town of Carletonville , 60 km south-west of Johannesburg , when police opened fire on a crowd of 5,000 blacks who were protesting at the death the previous week of a 16-year-old boy while held in detention ; and ( ii ) using razor wire , water cannon and plastic bullets , the police on Jan. 23 dispersed an illegal gathering of 8,000 demonstrators in Cape Town who were supporting the National Education Crisis Committee 's protest against the black education system . |
| 14 | The figures are different to the perception of those not incontinent who were asked the same question : 71% ( 2564 ) thought that the condition would have a great deal or fair amount of effect on their lifestyle and only 20% ( 692 ) not much or none at all . |
| 15 | I think the wives found it to their benefit to get amongst other wives who were sharing the same problems you know , how to pay the bills , how to buy food , and I think they seemed to get organized pretty well , they certainly helped us a hell of a lot . |
| 16 | Diocletian ( reigned 284–305 ) was one of five sons of Illyrian peasants who were to wear the imperial purple . |
| 17 | He backed away , ducked between the still-spinning dryads who were creating the magic circle , and watched to see what Druellae would do next . |
| 18 | At the time of this incident the incident was carried out by a group of officers who were called the operational support unit . |
| 19 | She had her arms round a boy and girl , who were regarding the open book on her lap . |
| 20 | He revealed this to a group of Irish journalists who were visiting the Zionist Terror State . |
| 21 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 22 | Blood samples were also taken from 24 patients who were attending the general nephrology clinics and had a similar degree of CRF. 12 ( 50% ) patients in the CRF group were receiving phosphate binders and 9 ( 38% ) were receiving sodium bicarbonate , but none had been treated with erythropoietin . |
| 23 | Following the change of party line in 1934 , which occurred during his stay in the Soviet Union , Nizan was entrusted with the task of liaising with fellow-travelling intellectuals such as Malraux , Gide and Bloch , who were attending the Soviet Writers Congress of that year . |
| 24 | The magistrates ' courts provided an opportunity to do this while simultaneously bolstering flagging markets for solicitors , who were feeling the economic pinch of a depressed property and commercial market . |
| 25 | A visit by a group of engineers , whose main aim was to look at drilling operations , study environmental issues and research the infrastructure , was closely followed by a team who were investigating the commercial aspects of producing and marketing Russian oil . |
| 26 | Andrea Palladio ( 1518–1580 ) the Italian architect , was revered and studied by English architects , who built adaptations of Italian palaces in England , but by the end of the century it was the Adam brothers who were having the greatest influence . |
| 27 | There was an embarrassed clearing of throats from Charles and her father , who were witnessing the sudden switch of topic with dawning understanding . |
| 28 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 29 | Sir Richard , in hose and open cambric shirt , wiped dust from his hands , apologising that he had been out with the craftsmen who were putting the finishing touches to their pageant for the young king 's coronation . |
| 30 | In New Pattern of Management Likert examined the results achieved by managers and supervisors who were practising the participative style of management . |