Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chairman of the committee was Representative Jim Jones of Oklahoma , a conservative Democrat who agreed with the main thrust of Reagan 's economic policy — the need for budget cuts and for a reduction in taxation . |
| 2 | The two provincial solicitors were the only two who agreed to the research following a random mailing of solicitors in the town . |
| 3 | It was not the Jerusalem leaders who agreed to the first widespread dissemination of the Word . |
| 4 | This has proved an unfounded anxiety since the design and management of all full-time courses in the polytechnic sector were and remain the responsibility of persons who qualified via the Institution 's external examination system and entered teaching as qualified surveyors after years of service in the public or private sector . |
| 5 | LEFT : William Dick , who qualified at the College in 1817 and founded his own school in Edinburgh in 1823 . |
| 6 | SPAIN , who qualified at the expense of their fellow Iberians , Portugal ( withdrawn ) , are captained by winger Jaime Gutierrez and include several players from the senior squad ; while JAPAN feature , among a host of World Cup players , the electric winger Yoshihito Yoshida , of Meiji University , who played for the World XV in the Centenary series against New Zealand . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew I could beat Robin Reid , who qualified for the Olympics , and I just hope that winning the title will show the selectors they have made a big mistake . ’ |
| 8 | The Indians , who qualified for the finals after a last-gasp win over West Indies in the final qualifying match , were never on course to match Australia 's 233 for 5 , the feature of which was an innings of 73 from Dean Jones , recalled after surprisingly being omitted from the previous match . |
| 9 | Any golfer who qualified for the Tour had assuredly earned and paid for the privilege . |
| 10 | These Diploma holders , together with a further four members who qualified for the FSD under the Lombard Scheme , bring the total number of FSD holders to 387 worldwide . |
| 11 | In practice , it was not the majority of the people who were to inherit power , but those who qualified by the ownership of property ; the ‘ people ’ had not yet come to include all inhabitants . |
| 12 | Although many of the teachers who qualified from the Bournemouth training course have since deserted the area , Audrey Archer ( a founder member in the Sidcup group ) and her daughter Sandra Williams keep our name to the fore in DORSET . |
| 13 | Paying passengers who clung to the railings of the MS Waldstatten as the explosive charges were detonated felt scarcely a ripple as debris dropped into the water . |
| 14 | He took a flashlight from his pocket to shine it down on the face of the petrified child who clung to the side of her mother . |
| 15 | He spoke of the state as mother , of the history of those who clung to the state as mother , of the psychology of those who wished to orphan themselves from the mother , of the novel oddity of a woman prime minister who was in fact a mother but was not nevertheless thereby motherly . |
| 16 | More characteristic was the active Louis VI of France , who succeeded on the whole in being a successful king , but only by the most strenuous activity . |
| 17 | The first major success of the year went to Ian Horrox who succeeded on the Kilnsey route he came so close to finishing last year . |
| 18 | Two-thirds of the Lords are hereditary peers who succeeded to the title automatically on their father 's death . |
| 19 | By his first wife , Sarah Ashe , who died in 1662 , he had a son , who succeeded to the baronetcy , and a daughter . |
| 20 | King Harald , who succeeded to the throne on his father 's death in Jan. 17 , 1991 , and was sworn in on Jan. 21 [ see p. 37967 ] , was blessed in a service held at the Nidaros cathedral in Trondheim on June 23 . |
| 21 | We tested the Volvo 460 on two readers who succeeded in the bid to get away . |
| 22 | Industrialists exploited their workers , and western nations exploited the rest of the world — but those who succeeded in the struggle were only too willing to see their success as the driving force of progress . |
| 23 | It would seem that it was Hazelden who sold to the planners at MEHQ the idea of delivering a final knock-out blow to the two main German supply ports , Tobruk and Benghazi . |
| 24 | But it 's not so brilliant for any shareholders who sold at the float price . |
| 25 | It follows that the person — doctor , nurse , or other — who complied with the request that treatment be withdrawn , provided he acted in good faith , would not be acting in violation of the criminal law . |
| 26 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 27 | Yeremi would avenge that victim on those who roosted at the summit . |
| 28 | In view of these deficiencies , it was hardly surprising that the reformers who centred on the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich addressed themselves to transforming the courts very soon after Alexander II ascended the throne . |
| 29 | Even among the 3 men who aligned with the UUUC , there was reluctance to identify too closely with it for fear of losing a stratum of middle-class voters more conscious of social status than constitutional complexities . |
| 30 | He also became one of the small group of scholars who translated from the classics for Penguin Books , for which he contributed versions of Plutarch , Polybius and Dio Cassius . |