Example sentences of "who were [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , violent incidents continued and on Dec. 23 a Telugu Desam member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) , Venkateswara Rao , was kidnapped by Naxalites demanding the release of seven companions who were either in prison or facing trial . |
| 2 | The farmers , including the president of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland , John Ross , and the union 's milk convener , Alex Brown , called on the Scottish Secretary to back Scotland 's milk producers , who were overwhelmingly in favour of the SMMB 's proposals , and help overturn the Office of Fair Trading 's findings that the plan would distort trade for milk . |
| 3 | The Scuttlers , Peaky Blinders and Area Sneaker himself all pre-dated the christening of the Hooligans , and in other towns there were similar gangs — the ‘ Grey Mare Boys ’ from Bradford or the ‘ High Rip ’ gangs of Liverpool — and London also had an earlier tradition of gangs such as the ‘ Tiger Bay ’ , the ‘ Monkeys ’ Parade' gang at Bow , or the ‘ Bowry Boys ’ of Poplar who were already in evidence in the late 1880s . |
| 4 | ‘ Last year the Yorkshire committee paid for an extensive coaching programme for six weeks to help youngsters in the area who were predominantly of Pakistani and Indian background . |
| 5 | Also in the list and discussed below are : Alex Comfort and Dr Martin Cole in the area of sex education , John Calder the publisher , John Trevelyan the erstwhile film censor , Roy Jenkins , Labour Home Secretary in the 1960s , as well as John Mortimer , the barrister , novelist and playwright , and what Mrs Whitehouse referred to as his ‘ travelling circus of expert witnesses ’ who were regularly in court to defend publications charged under the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 6 | Mrs Warden said that there were other patients with similar complaints to Mrs Cook who were also at risk . |
| 7 | It proved to be a period of strained relations with the English liberals , who were allies of the Irish party , but who were also in favour of bringing schooling more and more under state rather than church control ( Miller 1973 : 81–7 , 120–38 , 268–92 ) . |
| 8 | This distinction was made after two of his friends who were really into fitness dropped dead — one on a tennis court and another in a gymnasium . |
| 9 | The real reason she 'd wanted to leave was the harsh discovery that when you were nursing a broken heart there was nothing more painful than being surrounded by others who were happily in love . |
| 10 | ‘ I can remember when that did n't seem so unlikely , and I thought , well , if anything like that does ever happen , and they 're right and the establishment is wrong , then it would n't do any harm for there to be people like me in the Army who were basically in sympathy with the … movement , whatever . ’ |
| 11 | Further , women felt a responsibility to remain locked into that system of kin support in a way not replicated for men , who were more at liberty to ‘ get better jobs , migrate , emigrate and abrogate all responsibility for parents and siblings ’ ( ibid . |
| 12 | In 1927 and 1928 , therefore , were planted the seeds of a cultural conflict between a first generation of intellectuals who had , like Barbusse , joined the party as a reaction to the sickening personal experiences of the First World War and who were above all else humanist and pacifist , and a younger second generation of Surrealists and Marxists who were more in tune with the sectarian Bolshevism advocated by Moscow . |
| 13 | First we look at all those in both action and control samples who were still at home either six months or l2 months from the date of their referral to the psychiatrist for the elderly . |
| 14 | If we focus on all those clients who were still at home one year after referral , we can ask again whether the Home Support Project was sustaining more disadvantaged people than were still at home in the control sub-sample , and we can examine the interplay of a greater number of factors than those presented in Table 4.4 . |
| 15 | It appeared to some that somehow the police had been left to solve or to break the strike by impeding the exercise of the rights of persuasion and protest aimed at bringing out the miners who were still at work . |
| 16 | I did hear from friends , who were still in service at the time , that this caused a lot of bad feeling . , |
| 17 | However , the succeeding regime of the rector and the new vestrymen was less than efficient , and Merceron was able to make a comeback , through the manoeuvres of his son-in-law and those of his former supporters who were still in office . |
| 18 | Wordsworth sided with the Girondins , who were still in control of the Assembly , and had declared war on Austria and Prussia in April 1792 to spread the Revolution abroad . |
| 19 | Has the Secretary of State made any advance in redressing the ridiculous situation of the Scottish soldiers in the territorial units who served in the Gulf for 51 days and who were constantly under attack by Scud missiles ? |
| 20 | Other important elements included the student body at Tehran University and oil-industry workers in Khuzestan ( where most of the oil operations were located ) , who were intermittently on strike for much of 1978 . |
| 21 | Daniel Defoe distinguished between freeholders and mere inhabitants , and argued that since freeholders owned the country , they had the right to make the laws and impose them upon the inhabitants , who were only in effect " lodgers " , as he put it . |
| 22 | Its leaders were said to have been three executives of the Salsabil computer company , who were now under arrest . |