Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately after the first wave of evacuation had taken place there was a chorus of outrage from reception areas about some of the evacuees — evidently those from the poorest homes in inner-city areas — who were said to be filthy , verminous , incontinent , ungrateful and thoroughly ill-mannered . |
| 2 | Before it left , the UN mission compiled information on 1,100 people who had been detained , were alleged to have been detained or who were said to be missing , back to 1977 . |
| 3 | The Nightriders collected cash for Children in Need from passengers who were said to be full of Christmas spirit . |
| 4 | Second , and more important , even nobles who were determined to be recalcitrant expressed their recalcitrance in many different ways . |
| 5 | But some drivers who were assessed to be unsafe admitted that their peers encouraged them to drive fast . |
| 6 | The leadership was actually a collective one rather than a personal domination , and Law recognized his obligation to take the advice of those who were seen to be worthy of consultation by the party as a whole . |
| 7 | What you had was , F B I agents who were trained to be proactive , to be to do things , to force a conclusion . |
| 8 | War weariness was increasing the unpopularity of the Whigs , and although the Tories were happy with Queen Anne , the prospect of the succession of the House of Hanover , foreign Lutherans who were known to be sympathetic to the Whigs , was not particularly appealing to them . |
| 9 | However , of the significantly reduced number who were found to be poor , 68 per cent were pensioners ( table 5.1 of A. B. Atkison , ‘ Low pay and the cycle of poverty ’ , in Low Pay , ed . |
| 10 | Table VI summarises the number of subjects in each subgroup who were accepted for respite and day sitting services and who were found to be eligible for the mobility and attendance allowances before and after the interview . |
| 11 | There was a report in the paper about the coronation and the unveiling of the memorial to Queen Victoria two days before the coronation , and about the many crowned heads of Europe who were going to be present , including the German Emperor , the late Queen 's grandson . |
| 12 | After the Sheffield football disaster , within a week we heard accusations against the police , against the clubs , against the fans themselves who were accused of being drunk and causing trouble . |
| 13 | On March 21 , Israeli commandos infiltrated southern Lebanon north of the " security zone " ( created by Israel in 1985 ) , killing two people in the village of Louwaizeh who were alleged to be pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerrillas . |
| 14 | They were to elect , as members of the Committee , four verderers , who were required to be resident in one of the forest parishes . |
| 15 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 16 | On April 1 King Birendra , at the request of Prime Minister Marich Man Singh Shrestha , dismissed nine ministers who were reported to be unhappy with the government 's tough line . |