Example sentences of "who were [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Northampton , the Pratts were innholders from the reign of Henry VIII to George I , the Lyons family lasted for four generations and in the mid-seventeenth century had three brothers who were prominent in the trade , and the Peaches eventually acquired quite a chain of inns . |
| 2 | to Jim Loughran and Bessie Embleton who were married at the Priory yesterday . |
| 3 | Since the late 1960s most women have had sex before marriage — increasing from at least a third of women who were married in the late 1950s to three-quarters of women married in the early 1970s ( Dunnell 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Those facts aside , Masham Methodists could possibly reach out to 80 couples who were married in the church . |
| 5 | Now local conference usually was held as quickly as possible erm but when you went to local conference as an official , you were then faced with obviously the employer who was concerned in the case , an independent chairman of the employers , but a battery of other members of the employers ' association who were unattached to the actual claim itself . |
| 6 | Of those councillors who were twin-tracking at the time of the Widdicombe Committee , 58 per cent were teachers or lecturers , 12 per cent were manual workers , 16 per cent were in professional jobs ( social workers , planners and so on and 14 per cent were administrators ( Widdicombe Research , Vol. iii:34 ) . |
| 7 | Stories , much enhanced in the retelling , circulated about dirty , lice-ridden children who were ignorant of the basic rules of civilisation : the entire stock of clothing of a girl evacuee from Liverpool might consist of a light cotton dress and a pair of plimsolls ; evacuees did not know how to use a knife and fork properly ; they displayed an alarming ignorance of the joys of country life , being surprised that apples grew on trees and not in boxes ; and , worst of all , their lack of toilet training extended way beyond mere bed-wetting ( which , it was alleged , took place frequently ) to unimaginable depths of depravity . |
| 8 | Children who were preoccupied with the natural motions of their own bodies or who were difficult to toilet train were abused children ; children who laughed when passing wind , or indulged in aggressive play were displaying the classic signs of abuse ; destroying toys , harming animals , and being pre-occupied with death , were all stated to be symptoms of satanic ritual abuse . |
| 9 | The Glasgow High Court heard in January 1986 of the couple who were obsessed by the ouija board , tarot cards and the occult . |
| 10 | British seamen in the US deserted in droves , alarming the new British government and bringing about a revived dialogue not only on seamen 's complaints about the inadequacy of British pay , the constantly recurring problems of loss of wages and effects when torpedoed and the inroad made by railway fares when they were paid off from diverted ships , but also on the dangerous state of mind of seamen who were incensed by the conviction that they were constantly subject to neglect , mishandling and coercion . |
| 11 | Pelicans had some quick players who were dangerous on the break , but Clair Ward and Debbie Wadforth kept cool . |
| 12 | Full-contact , as it is.generally known , was the brainchild of a few martial artists who were tired of the controlled sparring methods allowed in karate and taekwondo . |
| 13 | Although Port-au-Prince was under fire from the oldest and most primitive of artillery pieces , which were so ill-preserved as to be as dangerous to their operators as to their targets , the effect was still terrifying to the populace , who were unused to the banshee wail that echoed overhead and preceded bone-crushing explosive impacts . |
| 14 | Far too many of them , however , soon started to produce technical problems of one kind or another which almost immediately swamped the tiny number of experts in organic materials who were available at the Royal Aircraft Establishment . |
| 15 | But Jannie was used to friends , particularly childless ones , who were good with the children to the point of dedication , and who a month later called Gawain Damian and Damian Adrian , or who sent the six-year-old Gawain a pull-along elephant for his birthday , and gave Damian a velvet party frock , in the belief that he was called Deborah and was a girl . |
| 16 | According to very senior sources who were present at the final session of the summit , what actually happened was subtly different from the PR people 's version . |
| 17 | Men from Wadenhoe who were present at the next Northamptonshire Forest Eyre in 1255 were committed to prison , and the whole township was adjudged to be ‘ in grievous mercy ’ . |
| 18 | For instance we had no place to keep our er records , we had er minute books er we used to receive minutes from the management for example , after our monthly meeting with them , er and they were more or less dictated by the er personnel department , who were present at the meeting . |
| 19 | The veterans have become increasingly alarmed at the incidence of illness — especially cancers amongst the 20,000 who were present at the tests . |
| 20 | Those of you who were present at the AGM will be aware that we have been told by the GAP that the Society 's grant will be drastically reduced during the next few years and will cease after 1991 . |
| 21 | Another thing about Steven Hughes Conference is that he knows what he 's talking about , on on shop floor iss issues like health and safety and those colleagues who were present at the launch of the G M B's National Health and Safety Campaign will confirm that especially the way he described the Chief Executive of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 22 | The material new facts that have emerged involve new evidence from certain officers who were present on the night of the crime and who witnessed certain things . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was not I but the other riders who were hell-bent on the wrong route . |
| 24 | He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire . |
| 25 | In many instances social workers picked up practical points such as those mentioned above , and dealt with them immediately : arrangements were hastily made to provide counselling for those young people who were unaware of the dangers of AIDS and the importance of using contraceptives . |
| 26 | At the same time , researchers who were unaware of the results of the lead tests interviewed the mothers , gave them intelligence tests and looked for social factors that might be affecting their children . |
| 27 | The comparability of the CVs was confirmed by two consultants who were unaware of the purpose of the research and were asked to rate the CVs after the names had been removed . |
| 28 | They wanted not merely to take anti-pollution and anti-nuclear measures , but also to change Germany back into a rural economy , yet they grew rapidly in appeal after 1981 and attracted the sympathy of leftists who were dissatisfied with the moderation of the SPD . |
| 29 | His candidature was strongly supported by those Democrats who were dissatisfied with the conciliatory style of the Democratic Speaker of the House , Thomas Foley , and who wanted a clearer definition of the party 's differences with the Bush administration . |
| 30 | While in Clermont he emerged as the focus for those who were dissatisfied with the status quo — just as Childebert I had earlier appeared as an ally for Arcadius . |