Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Formal nursing courses reflect these concerns , but there is at present no mechanism for updating the knowledge of those who qualified some time ago .
2 They had a daughter , who married Wilfrid Scawen Blunt [ q.v. ] , and two sons who succeeded each other as Baron Wentworth and second and third Earl of Lovelace .
3 The eventual confirmation of Thomas , who succeeded black justice Thurgood Marshall , meant that the nine-member Supreme Court would be without a single liberal member for the first time in its modern history .
4 A nineteen-year-old Coventry woman who disowned any interest in feminism or politics — " I 'm just a fun girl , " — said she could never remember anybody talking about " the clitoris or orgasms ' .
5 Eventually she explained that she owed money to a stall-keeper who sold second-hand clothing : she had stupidly borrowed some from him to buy a dress .
6 Sweeney 's name pronounces him of the lineage of a man who sold human flesh for butchermeat , a ‘ demon barber ’ .
7 Has the Prince forgotten that it was the French farmers who attacked British lorry drivers and burned their cargoes of lamb ?
8 Thanks are due also to all those who took part in the experiments , especially those who asked common sense questions which I frequently found extremely difficult to answer as a cognitive psychologist .
9 Mr Gould — National Heritage shadow to shamed David Mellor who quit last week — infuriated Labour with the timing of his announcement .
10 Eight years for youth who stabbed frail pensioner , 85
11 ‘ Every match I am playing better and better , ’ said Stich , who revealed that marriage to German actress Jessica Stockman nine months ago helped put his career back on track after he had slumped as low as 17 in the world last year .
12 Rothermere withdrew his press support and Conservative MPs , who revealed some interest in fascism , joined the clamour of condemnation .
13 Not only is the food aid late but it is depressing the market for peasants who produced surplus maize for sale ( see box above ) .
14 Not only was he one of the very rare examples of a writer who produced great work in more than one genre , but in a career which spanned nearly 60 years , his talent had developed from traditional Victorian fiction to innovative 20th century poetry .
15 In the simplest version of this concept the UK imported raw materials which , together with indigenous materials ( especially coal and iron ) , were transformed by British workers whose diet depended on imported staple foods ( especially cheap grain ) and who produced high quality and low cost manufactured goods which were sold abroad to pay , in part , for the primary imports .
16 Cole & Cole ( 1967 ) studied the possible correlation of quantity of output of 120 physicists ( publications , citations , number of awards ) with the perceived quality of their work , as determined by peer assessment , to see if the reward system in science favoured highly productive researchers , or those who produced high quality research .
17 But I was never as good as Grandma who produced lovely crochet work with intricate floral designs .
18 She has a nice ( and one would guess , younger ) boyfriend , The First Wives Club has been a bestseller , and she has bought a country house on the proceeds of the film rights , which have been taken up by Sherry Lansing , who produced Fatal Attraction .
19 The content of the output produced is the result of the skill and effort of the person using the computer and the skill and effort of the person who wrote the computer program and/or the person who produced any database used .
20 The group who produced this version attempted to create a balance between , on the one hand , the central action of the shooting , and , on the other , the more 'static " descriptions of the rain , the hospital and the courtyard .
21 He goes on , ‘ What I would like to know is just who produced this paper .
22 I suspect that it is assumed by most people , including those who planned this course of lectures , that language is a means of communication — that this is what it is for ; and that since literature is made out of language , it too must be a kind of communication , as defined by , for instance , the Collins English Dictionary : ‘ the imparting or exchange of information , ideas , feelings ’ .
23 Restricted finances allowed only one appointment , that of Coleman , who became sole Professor at the age of 28 .
24 Among its most prominent leaders were Adu Boahen , a former history professor , who became interim chairman , and Johnny Hansen , Interior Secretary in 1982-83 , who became first vice-chairman .
25 In that same year , the Duke of Wellington became Prime Minister until George IV died in June 1830 , when he was succeeded by William IV who was sympathetic to the Whig party and a supporter of the Reform Bill which had been introduced by Earl Grey , who became Prime Minister following the Duke of Wellington .
26 Tomasi Puapua , who became Prime Minister following the general election of September 1981 , was returned to office in September 1985 .
27 The fact that David Lloyd George , who became prime minister in December 1916 , had a well-developed taste for publicity and a personal interest in the potentialities of propaganda strengthened this change of attitude .
28 But Macmillan ( who became prime minister in January 1957 ) firmly decided that the special relationship could and should be rebuilt .
29 As a surprise , his mother and father , together with his travel agent friend ( who became best man ) arrived unannounced at his hotel the day before .
30 But , says Dave Robins , who became assistant editor early in 1968 , It remained very male , in its content , and in its style .
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