Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When process of care measures were reanalysed after excluding the 21 patients who were referred back to the hospital clinic other than through the prompting system , all process of care measures in table IV remained more frequent in the prompted subgroup ( n=65 prompted subjects ) . |
| 2 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 3 | When my right hon. Friend visits the United Nations , will he raise the issue of the RAF aircrew who were shot down over the Gulf , some of whom came from west Norfolk ? |
| 4 | The issue was solved , not by due legal process , but by a brawl between the colonists and the village lads , who were chased back into the Soviet building which was later smashed up . |
| 5 | After the ceremony of the Wheel there was a firework display and people bought chips and hot-dogs from traders with vans who were cashing in on the occasion . |
| 6 | For the troops who were sent here in the summer of 1969 were ill-prepared for urban conflict . |
| 7 | Apprehension about the Spaniards turned out to be unjustified ; they had serious problems with the Dutch , who were moving forward in the West Indies , and also with the trade winds , that blew from the east and made it very hard for ships from the Spanish Main or from the larger islands like Cuba to reach the smaller islands . |
| 8 | He had to hitch his chair forward to make room for a party who were moving in around the table behind him . |
| 9 | They nodded to Maggie Jones and Ida Bromsgrove who were chatting together on the doorstep , and to Grace Crossley , the landlady of the Kings Arms which stood on the corner of Page Street . |
| 10 | Police are particularly anxious to trace a courting couple who were seen nearby at the time of the attack . |
| 11 | Some were descended from refugees who had fled before the advancing Turks in the fifteenth century ; others had forebears who were led out by the Patriarch Arsenije of Peć in a mass migration of an estimated 100,000 Serbs in 1691 . |
| 12 | With the exception of the ten generals , who were elected annually by the assembly , most other public offices were filled for limited periods ( usually a year ) by citizens chosen by lot . |
| 13 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 14 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 15 | Recently 55 more trade unionists have been arrested , yet those who were detained immediately after the 30 June coup have been neither interrogated , charged nor given an explanation of the reason why they are being held . |
| 16 | It used to be the case that contestants who were struck lightly in the face could exaggerate injury in order to have the opponent 's score disallowed . |
| 17 | I gave her a rope , and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp . |
| 18 | This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith . |
| 19 | It is also true that many older people , who were trained rigorously in the disciplines of study fashionable before 1960 , think that they know a great deal about language , but in fact imbibed many false notions from their schooling . |
| 20 | Because much of its crude is of a variety that is expensive to refine and bring to market , it is trying to lure back the foreigners who were kicked out of the business two decades ago . |
| 21 | And although the names of all the contenders could be heard , high-profile politicking appeared to have paid off particularly in the cases of Kenneth Baker and Michael Heseltine , who were cited frequently as the ‘ obvious ’ front-runners . |
| 22 | No stranger honeymooners could have gathered there than the gangs of parliament members — 67 of them — who were ferried down to the Bekaa in Syrian helicopters and armoured limousines , guarded by squads of bodyguards armed with anti-tank rockets . |
| 23 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 24 | Also blamed are other Arabs — Lebanese , Sudanese , Yemenis and Jordanians — who were brought in by the Iraqis to help police Kuwait . |
| 25 | Some , but only some , members of the resistance distinguish between the Palestinians who were brought in by the Iraqis to do a bit of their dirty work , and Kuwait 's large and long-established Palestinian population . |
| 26 | The mean age of a sample of thirty-four boys in this group who were to contribute greatly to the later stages of the research was 15 1 years . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , despite its defeat , a shift continued towards the Labour Party of millions of former Liberal voters or new voters who were put off by the factionalism of the Liberal Party . |
| 28 | Its elaborate ritual and its uniform of white hooded sheets appealed particularly to poorer folk from the small towns and rural areas who were missing out on the prosperity of the period . |
| 29 | Almost invariably , I ended up each year in front of the Star Chamber of ministers who were set up under the chairmanship of Willie Whitelaw to try to sort out the differences which remained between ministers and the Chief Secretary . |
| 30 | Who were going in for the exam and I were n't allowed to help them . |