Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 2 | Most were economic refugees , but there were many who claimed to be environmental refugees leaving for the sake of their health . |
| 3 | That I myself was hardly any more mature than he , was beside the point : I had no very high opinion of people who claimed to be mature adults . |
| 4 | Bloxham had always been fascinated by regression to what appeared to be past lives , and he would experiment with those of his patients who proved to be excellent subjects for hypnosis ( with their full permission and co-operation , of course ) , recording the outcome of these experiments . |
| 5 | In 1898 the Church Meeting resolved to draw up the membership list on the basis that ‘ those who wished to be regular communicants be voted upon at the Church Meeting ’ . |
| 6 | An individual member of Amnesty , urges the International Secretariat to withdraw prisoner of conscience status from ‘ those volunteer soldiers in Britain and America who wished to be conscientious objectors to the war in the Gulf ’ . |
| 7 | No policy orthodoxy had to be imposed and no places had to be found for clients of the former leader who wished to be junior ministers . |
| 8 | This is probably not quite the ideological paradox it sounds : it just means that she supported the politicians and parties in fragmented Boiotia who would tend to keep Boiotia fragmented , that is , the Thebes-haters , the local men who wanted to be big frogs in small and separate Boiotian ponds . |