Example sentences of "who [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funding was received from one Norwich newspaper , the Eastern Daily Press , who agreed to support the project over a three year period . |
| 2 | ‘ Then I was contacted over the phone by a company in Rufford who agreed to sell the car for £50 . |
| 3 | Next came talks with Hedlunds who agreed to do a turnkey operation , using a three-man team to erect the structure and local builders , plumbers , plasterers and electricians to complete the work . |
| 4 | In desperation Mr Gresty turned to soldiers at nearby Catterick Garrison who agreed to recover the truck stuck in the River Skerne , on the outskirts of Darlington . |
| 5 | On this ground the proceedings of the licensing court were either reduced , or the pursuer 's averments were held relevant , in the following circumstances : when two of the members of the court had been employed by the applicant as part-time barmen for a number of years , without remuneration apart from money gifts at holiday periods : McDonald v. Fin lay ( supra ) ; when three of the members of the court were shareholders , and one was a director , of the company owning the property for which the certificate was sought , and when that company was closely allied with another company , the officials and directors of both being the same persons , on whose behalf the certificate was applied for : Blaik v. Anderson ( 1899 ) 7 S.L.T. 299 ; when a member of the court had recently been a shareholder of the company on whose behalf the certificate was applied for , and he had on previous occasions himself been the applicant on the company 's behalf , he being an avowed and pledged advocate of the company : Ower v. Crichton ( 1902 ) 10 S.L.T. 271 ; when members of a court had , in their capacity as members of a local authority , and with a view to street improvement , taken an active part in negotiating the purchase of licensed premises from brewers , who agreed to pay a sum of money to the local authority if a new licence were obtained for other premises , such as the subject of the application : R. v. Sunderland JJ. [ 1901 ] 2 K.B . |
| 6 | In this case , the defendant ordered a Rolls Royce chassis from the plaintiffs who agreed to build a body on it by 20 March . |
| 7 | But Roe , who qualified to join the line-up featuring 28 of the world 's best players courtesy of his victory in the Lancome Trophy , was delighted with his . |
| 8 | There was the chemist who toyed with the possibilities of making synthetic gas for a balloon , the aerodynamic expert who planned to construct a glider out of bed boards , and the dog-lover who wanted to make himself a dog-skin out of an Irvin flying suit and crawl out as one of the guards ' Alsatians . |
| 9 | Every one of those men who went in the forces , who lived to tell the tale , was given their jobs back when they came back , because their jobs were replaced by women during the war , drivers and conductors , they were replaced by women and as the men came back , so the women were paid off , so everybody who came back from the war was given their job back . |
| 10 | 21-year-old Jason Hardman is one of 3,000 who applied to join the force — this year West Mercia will take on about a hundred . |
| 11 | 21-year-old Jason Hardman is one of 3,000 who applied to join the force — this year West Mercia will take on about a hundred . |
| 12 | But it seems all too likely that the 21 married women who applied to rejoin the trade and the union in 1919–20 were war widows , although we only know this for sure of three of them . |
| 13 | He and other stars who fought to save the show are bitter their Pounds 600,000-a-year roles are finished . |
| 14 | Jade and Rose continue to show their appreciation for the medical staff at Stoke Mandeville who fought to keep the baby alive . |
| 15 | One of those who fought to prevent the building said ‘ We do n't know if it is worth preserving after all the upheaval on site ’ . |
| 16 | Anyone who failed to answer the summons was liable to be beaten . |
| 17 | Although many board members reported being fascinated by recent developments , it was not uncommon to find those who failed to appreciate the amount of change since their own schooldays . |
| 18 | Unfortunately for Germany , however , the commander on the spot was the timorous General Max von Prittwitz , who failed to exploit the opportunity through fear of his numerical inferiority . |
| 19 | Padded to the eyebrows and looking like the Michelin Man , he would make his tentative way to the crease , usually at number 11 , and woe-betide the visiting fielder who held on to a catch put up by him or the bowler who failed to stifle an lbw appeal at birth . |
| 20 | True , Brian Robinson did get over from a maul on the All Black 's line before the worst happened — although the Australian referee , Sandy McNeill , was unfortunately the only individual within a hundred metres who failed to note the touchdown . |
| 21 | Among the more significant changes , prompted in part by criticism of the government 's handling of events leading up to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] , was the replacement of the Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , who failed to obtain a Cabinet post for the first time in almost three decades . |
| 22 | Myo Nyunt in a speech on Aug. 15 , 1989 , accused traders who failed to cut the price of rice , meat and fish of " aiming at political and economic instability " . |
| 23 | But for some who failed to master the course , it 'll be a long and lonely drive home . |
| 24 | He hoped that anyone over the coming weeks who failed to get a job because of not being a union member would write to the Government and explain the facts . |
| 25 | Published by the International Development Research Centre ( IDRC ) in Canada , the papers were prepared by media theoreticians and practitioners from across the African continent who met to discuss the use of media to relay development information . |
| 26 | It was these northern gentry who became the model for those who sought to save the influence of the nobility by involving it in a movement for reform and economic progress . |
| 27 | Rome was a city of warring families who sought to control the senate and the senators and , of course , the pope himself . |
| 28 | In Urwick 's view , those who sought to turn every boy into an apprentice wished to construct an ‘ ideal market ’ where the demand was for skilled labour . |
| 29 | It was not until just before the turn of the present century that it was revived by those who sought to promote the occult and a New Age mentality . |
| 30 | The faculty argued that her treatment had been exactly the same as that of any other applicant , regardless of his or her race or colour , who sought to join the bar . |