Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So people who were generally in the big box knew about it ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some of our final year students who were soon to be ordained , feeling the need for some kind of support system , especially during the first few years of ministry , decided to create their own cells . |
| 4 | During my travels across the Siberian Steppes , some years ago , I chanced upon a team of Russian palaeontologists , who were clearly in a state of heightened exuberance . |
| 5 | After a long campaign by " dry " organizations like the Anti-Saloon League ( founded 1895 ) and after wartime pressures for sobriety and wartime hostility to the brewers , who were mostly of German descent , three-quarters of the states had supported the Amendment . |
| 6 | The tallest , heaviest boys were in the A group ; the next size down was B and so on until F. F was the group for the real tinies , the handful of Alec Davidsons who were mostly in first year . |
| 7 | Most of those from Liverpool who were here on that fateful spring day believe the return should have been delayed longer . |
| 8 | D' ya remember those of you who were here on Monday . |
| 9 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 10 | I am a recipient of Public Lending Right and I have come to the House tonight to say thank you to honourable members who were here in 1979 , when the legislation was passed . ’ |
| 11 | The Ireland U16 team who were here in Israel for an international competition . |
| 12 | Ever since his time as a medical student , he had been drawn towards women who were higher up the career ladder , revelling in both the challenge and the reflected glory when he succeeded . |
| 13 | In 1734 , for example , when Campbell of Ardkinglas was faced with a contest in Stirlingshire , this government politician attempted to secure the support of some of the freeholders who were normally to be found in the interest of the Duke of Montrose . |
| 14 | The essence of showmanship had become the capacity to build up from one 's regular audience , to bring in whole families , to attract women and children , to win over religious families who were normally against organized entertainment , to convince trade unionists and the politically active that a moment 's respite was harmless enough , and to convince the respectable and well-to-do that a visit to the movies was not a disgraceful act . |
| 15 | ‘ The mugs who were ahead of us at the hotel , Fatso . |
| 16 | He was smitten not especially by Sandra 's looks , but by her whole demeanour , and those who were around at the time must have thought he had understated his feelings when he said later , ‘ It was a no-big-deal act for me . |
| 17 | The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again . |
| 18 | Similar charges would face Lt.-Col. ( retd ) H. M. A. Gaffar and Ziauddin Ahmed , the former Minister for Civil Aviation and his Minister of State respectively , who were both in hiding . |
| 19 | On the other hand when the Goigama made money payments in return for services or labour it was always to people who were right outside the system such as shopkeepers or Tamil labourers hired on a casual basis . |
| 20 | But these social and technological changes hardly brought a more leisurely or carefree life to the farming families ( who were later to be emigrants to Britain , see Table I ) . |
| 21 | At Bologna in the late 1180s Lothar may have made the acquaintance among his fellow students of Peter Collivaccinus of Benevento , and others , who were later to be important in the legal developments of his pontificate , collecting papal legal decisions or decretals . |
| 22 | The procedure for ascertaining the opinion of members of the Commons and of Peers and of prominent people in the Party Organization was then conducted by persons who were later to be christened ‘ the Magic Circle ’ . |
| 23 | There must be equality of rights for all citizens regardless of nationality ; and there could be no excuse for discrimination against any of them , nor for ‘ extremist gatherings ’ which had terrorised local people who were not of the majority affiliation . |
| 24 | Many of her friends had stepparents , and few of them were happy about it : in their rambling and interminable discussions they would deplore the stupidity and selfishness of their elders in introducing into their homes strangers who were not of their blood and who insisted on peculiar foodstuffs and liked or disliked various types of music — whichever was most inconvenient and painful to the children of the house . |
| 25 | The Volkstag hardly met at all by this time , so those anti-Nazis who had not fled and who were not under arrest had no voice in the government of the city . |
| 26 | Presentations to livings could be made by totally unworthy patrons , often crooks and loose-livers who were not above putting in incumbents almost as bad as themselves . |
| 27 | A further use for videos could be to show the older farmers , who were not at present making use of training , alternative methods of performing tasks . |
| 28 | Aggregating Dolgikh 's figures , we can arrive at the approximate numbers for the peoples of Siberia in the seventeenth century ( including some 69,000 people of the Altai-Sayan and the far East who were not at this time Russian subjects ) as shown in Table 5.1 . |
| 29 | This attracted the attention of the local landowning family who were not at all happy with this and threatened the founders . |
| 30 | I did , you 'll have to forgive me , I mean I think for the sake of those who were not at the meeting erm what we should really say is that actually said that he wanted to hear what kind of a parish we are so that he could attempt to match the , the incoming priest with you know the need of the parish . |