Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces . " |
| 2 | ( iii ) The third paragraph of Robertson 's signal directed that " all surrendered personnel of established Jugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces ! |
| 3 | And this might help to explain why Gen Robertson devoted such a significant part of his signal to the order that " all surrendered personnel of established Jugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces " . |
| 4 | In response to this , at 1611 hrs on 15 May , AFHQ sent a message [ KP 118 ] to MACMIS , the Maclean military mission serving with Tito 's HQ , asking them to inform Tito that : " Commander of Allied tps in Austria reports approx 200,000 Yugoslav nationals who were serving in German forces have surrendered to him . |
| 5 | We may note that the description of the " 200,000 Croats " in McCreery 's AC/190 has here been changed to " 200,000 Yugoslav nationals who were serving in German forces " . |
| 6 | This closely corresponds to the wording of Robertson 's order the previous day referring to " all surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces " . |
| 7 | He speaks only of " surrendered personnel of Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces " . |
| 8 | This implies that Robertson 's response to Kirk 's querying of the definition of " Chetniks " had been to remove the term altogether , and simply to word his instruction in general terms that " all surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Yugoslav forces . " |
| 9 | While the purpose of creating commodity organisations was neither to escape liability nor to create profits for the organisation itself , but to control dealings in the commodity for the benefit of member States , the consequence has been to deprive third parties who were dealing in good faith with the organisation of a domestic judicial remedy . |
| 10 | The Conservative government of Edward Heath had expelled one hundred and five KGB agents in 1971 who were operating under diplomatic cover and there was reluctance to have the old situation restored . |
| 11 | The long , silvery , all-metal kitchen was already occupied by two figures dressed in white trousers and jackets topped by high white paper hats : the diminutive lady chef from Montreal and a tall willowy young man who introduced himself as Angus , the special chef employed by the outside firm of top-class caterers who were providing for this journey the sort of food not usually served on trains . |
| 12 | The excess was concentrated in children under 5 years who were living within 10 km of the atomic weapons establishments at Aldermaston and Burghfield . |
| 13 | Matthew waved his arm at his audience , who were listening to this exchange with come interest . |
| 14 | Emancipation for women was beginning to rumble and Cook may have embraced the idea , but , being a shrewd opportunist , it is more likely that he saw potential customers among women who were striving for more freedom . |
| 15 | Those who were sheltering behind assumed identities were discouraged from getting in touch with their friends and families , so it was a small group of us who sat down in a classroom . |
| 16 | There were over 70 million cars on the roads , many of them used by commuting middle-class Americans who were escaping in ever-increasing numbers from the over-crowded city centres to the more comfortable suburbs . |
| 17 | A riot broke out on the evening of Aug. 10-11 in the southern city of Shenzhen involving 50,000-60,000 would-be investors who were protesting against unfair distribution of share application forms , which had been sold out earlier than expected . |
| 18 | The saddest story relates to Canoe Store of Emsworth who were struggling like many others . |
| 19 | This fundamentally optimistic interpretation of the world and its mysterious working was contested by the heirs of the Enlightenment of the previous century , who were looking for rational explanations and practical methods of applying them . |
| 20 | The drama began after the man 's colleagues , who were working on neighbouring boats off the Southport coast , became concerned about their friend . |
| 21 | But even he notes that Maxwell would telephone ‘ as often as six times in an evening to staff who were working on political reports ’ . |
| 22 | The committee called in George Stephenson , Reid Clanny and Holmes who were working on safe lamps and ventilation . |
| 23 | Outside ILT those who were working with bilingual students in general community and adult education also found that they were being asked to provide language awareness training for groups who had contact with their students , e.g. health workers , careers advisers , librarians , workers in advice agencies . |
| 24 | This picture is enhanced by figure 4.2 , which shows NCB estimates of the number of NUM members who were working in each field both during an early month of the conflict and on four dates in the middle of the strike period . |
| 25 | After keeping an eye on several possible candidates who were working in local shops , I finally selected a young man who was an assistant at a fruiterer 's in Kensington . |
| 26 | Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara . |
| 27 | Equally , some heads were struggling to deal with colleagues who were challenging by any standards — individuals who were combative , touchy , recalcitrant , bitter , lazy or in any of a variety of other ways uncooperative . |
| 28 | Mr Smith , who is also chairman of Fraserburgh Fish Merchants ' Association , said it was not just the French who were suffering from cheap fish imports — catches could be bought from eastern European boats in the North-east at prices which local fishermen say would put them out of business . |
| 29 | A gynaecologist who worked in the Maternity " Hospital in San Salvador saw at least five women every day who were suffering from serious complications after a badly performed abortion . |
| 30 | Whatever benefits were conferred by the phenothiazines , they gave little help to patients who were suffering from excessive mood swings or who had entered into long periods of helpless depression . |