Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [vb past] [verb] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to be run for the benefit of chaps who wanted a good time — not chaps who wanted to re-create their public schools . |
| 2 | After two years the Communist League decided to merge with the Independent Labour Party in accordance with the " entrist " tactic of those French and American Trotskyists who had joined their respective socialist parties . |
| 3 | Two years later Arp was living in Zurich , a member of a group of talented émigré artists who had left their own countries because of the war . |
| 4 | At all events the British ( headed by Thompson ) , and indeed other physicists who had done their creative work in thermodynamics , were strongly tempted by the view that man had now acquired a definitive understanding of the laws of nature ( though a Helmholtz or Boltzmann was rightly unconvinced ) . |
| 5 | Until this point , the structure of government outside Whitehall had been merely a matter which worried civil servants who wished to see their departmental policies executed more rapidly and efficiently , though some Liberals , some academics and sections of the ‘ quality press ’ had shown a passing interest in the subject . |
| 6 | The outcome of patients who had completed their linear growth ( defined by attainment of Tanner stage 5 pubertal development and less than 1 cm of growth in 12 months ) at the time of the study was also reviewed . |
| 7 | The proposals for ‘ a simplified , single-tier , strong local government system with a wide range of powers based on twelve to eighteen ‘ area councils ’ ( Arthur 1980:97 ) were strongly opposed by local interests who wished to retain their sectarian control in the existing small local authorities . |
| 8 | It was unfair to drop players who had given their all against West Indies and to bring in others against Sri Lanka . |
| 9 | The delay in his transfer over his sports shop confirmed Chapman 's estimation of him , for he admired players who sought to protect their own interests : ‘ This is an indication to me that the player who makes this demand has intelligence . ’ |
| 10 | A change in the mode of production from feudalism to agrarian capitalism required and forced the emergence of new forms of law and punishment appropriate to the new economy , such as Enclosure Acts and laws to penalize poor foresters who attempted to exercise their customary rights of grazing and timber-cutting in the forests . |
| 11 | They were also the party of international Protestantism , believing that England should open its arms to foreign protestants who had fled their own country on account of their religion , and were prepared to allow them not only complete freedom of worship but also the advantages of naturalisation . |
| 12 | There was even less sympathy in the medical press for women who wanted to control their own fertility . |
| 13 | It was emphasised that only limited information was available about the performance of Access students in higher education , and that the vast majority of students who had completed their higher education course came from one Access course . |