Example sentences of "who [vb past] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Debate on 16 November was enlivened by a passionate defence of the schema from the Bishop of Faenza who attacked the Jesuit-run Biblical Institute , of which Bea had been rector . |
2 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of Michael Dickinson , the now US-based trainer who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again who hit form on the day it mattered to scoop the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
3 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of fellow trainer Michael Dickinson , now based in the US but who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again , who hit form on the day it mattered to win the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
4 | We do n't know , but there are at least 2.8 million Yugoslav families — those who produced the 1.4 million mixed marriages , mostly Croat-Serb , for whom the choice of an exclusive ethnic identity must be complex . |
5 | On Oct. 8 , 1989 , Roberto Salazar Manrique replaced the interim Justice Minister , Carlos Lemos Simmons , who became the new Interior Minister following the resignation of Orlando Vásquez Velásquez ; Enrique Danies became the new Communications Minister . |
6 | The second half produced any amount of action , including five goals , three of them to Chorley , before their striker Bernie Taylor had to be stretchered off following a tackle from Kath Townley , who became the second United player to be dismissed . |
7 | He was replaced by Willie L. Williams , a former Philadelphia police commissioner , who became the first black to head the LAPD and the first outsider to become chief for over 40 years . |
8 | Michael Roberts could ride either but sticks to Lyric Fantasy who became the first two-year-old filly to win the Nunthorpe at Yor |
9 | The Barbarians , led by Scotland 's Gavin Hastings , failed to cope with the surface water and were beaten 16–8 by South Korea , who became the first Asian side to reach the semi-finals . |
10 | Lyle , who became the first British winner of the title in 1988 , has been concerned throughout 30-year-old Jolande 's pregancy . |
11 | It is the task of Lakhdar Ibrahimi , the Arab League envoy , to struggle through a tangle of sub-issues in the hope that he can persuade the Lebanese to renegotiate France 's political legacy and the policies that began when General Henri Gouraud , who became the French high commissioner of Lebanon in 1920 , stepped ashore . |
12 | They worked together in Athens , and are associated with Cimon , son of Miltiades the victor of Marathon , who became the leading political and military personality in the city as the position of Themistocles declined ( he was exiled before 470 ) , until he himself went into exile in 461 . |
13 | According to Aboriginal mythology in Australia , Garkain was an horrific spirit who haunted the thick northern rainforests . |
14 | But it was — and still is — an affront to those who respected the great classic guitars , having to see them being used as dispensable stage props ! |
15 | Consider the case of Abdellatif Sbili who led the first Moroccan nationalist campaign against the French in 1930 : |
16 | The problem with this 1976- type solution is ( a ) that the army has blood on its own hands , and ( b ) that nobody at the centre has the unchallenged authority of Marshal Ye Jianying who led the 1976 anti-Gang coup . |
17 | FROM THE home of the original Bambaataa the chieftain who led the last great Zulu revolt against white rule comes the African Hip Hop Movement . |
18 | The Royal Navy created by Henry VIII was manned by merchant seamen who fought the great naval battles which cleared the seas and made possible future trade with the East , while these same seamen , under letters of marque , plundered the bullion and seized the vessels of the enemies of England en route from the New World . |
19 | , John ( 1814–1897 ) , mechanical engineer and inventor , was born at Todmorden , Lancashire , 11 September 1814 , the son of a cotton spinner who owned the only steam-driven mill in the area . |
20 | Constantine Menges , who shared the Central American account , constantly elbowing and shoving , with North , remembered unsettling conversations with him . |
21 | At the first hotel I worked in , I had shared an ‘ office , with one other cleaner — a taciturn alcoholic who taught me how to keep my head down — but in my new job , there were five of us who shared the same poky little room . |
22 | The crews included many officers and men in for the duration , the ‘ Hostilities only ’ ( HO ) personnel like Able Seaman William Savage who manned the forward 2-pounder pom-pom on the motor gun boat . |
23 | Prime Minister Sharif , who met the Indian Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao during the Commonwealth summit in Harare , Zimbabwe , on Oct. 17 , said on Oct. 24 that the two sides had agreed to establish closer communication to avoid future crises . |
24 | Director Penny Marshall , who made the joyous Big and the very moving Awakenings , has crammed as many cliches as is possible into this feel-good little film . |
25 | It was James Watt who made the first major improvements to the principles worked out by Newcomen . |
26 | It was Freud who made the first extensive use of hypnosis to probe the depths of the subconscious mind . |
27 | So says Charles Munn , who made the first known sighting of this small parrot in 1985 , at clay-eating cliff in Peru 's Manu National Park . |
28 | In the classic experimental design a control group would be used which was as alike in all respects to the experimental group ( the latter being , in this example , the workers who experienced the new managerial style ) , save in this one respect ; only the experimental group is subjected to the independent variable . |
29 | Perhaps her husband was not such a shit after all , Blanche thought , just a human being who experienced the same tangled skein of feelings as held her then . |
30 | ‘ After all we are not just one people , we are also one city , ’ said one West Berliner , who described the last 24 hours as ‘ simply unbelievable ’ . |