Example sentences of "were [art] ones who " in BNC.

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1 If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision .
2 But they were the ones who buggered off .
3 They were the ones who were frightened , and in turn they wanted to scare Mungo .
4 There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late .
5 Jesus once said that those who had been shown the greatest mercy by God were the ones who loved him the most .
6 And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place .
7 ‘ In my estimation the most perfect rock'n'roll band that ever existed , The Beatles , when they sat down and wrote lyrics , they were just throwing ideas around that really meant nothing , and we were the ones who , for instance , made out that Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds meant LSD .
8 In the second century BC , when Judah was occupied by the Greeks , the Pharisees were the ones who refused all Greek influences .
9 They were the ones who f—ed over melody and did it in their own way , ’ said Bobby Schiffman of The Harlem Apollo .
10 for every successful candidate there are bound to be at least two who were pipped at the post , who jumped the final fence only to find that the client had chosen one of their fellow front-runners : and these were the ones who — by and large — responded to the survey rather than the successful ones .
11 They were the ones who went in when all else had failed ; they were the élite .
12 That 's what they led us to believe anyway , even if they were the ones who had most of the food and clothes .
13 This follows almost directly from the fact that the actors were the ones who intended the action in the first place .
14 Rather , when trouble had boiled over , which was pretty rare , they were the ones who stood and slugged it out .
15 The largest houses were the ones who most readily hired girls .
16 Robin and Jenny were the ones who had adventures , fell walking or sailing on the lake , always coming home with hair-raising stories ; but nothing ever happened to Ruth .
17 Where this happened , certain pupils in each group were clearly more aware of the problem than others ; they were the ones who changed the nature of the questions .
18 He missed them and paced around and made another booking at the Air-India counter , stalling grandly about actually buying the ticket without even noticing that the people on duty were the ones who had humored him before .
19 No , the people who had ordered Jay 's death — they were the ones who had to be punished .
20 Due to the cleaning out of a lot of prominent party figures the ‘ second rank ’ party members were the ones who benefitted from the purges .
21 These girls were the ones who were always getting put in detention , never did any homework , smoked dope at 11 and started having sex at 14 — shoplifting was just another phase for them to go through . ’
22 The trouble with the system was that they were the ones who never did .
23 The tenants were the people who knew the district intimately from years of experience living and farming there and they were the ones who made the decisions in the manor court .
24 And , of course , when a crime was reported they were the ones who had to notify the Parquet in the first place .
25 Nothing , while they were the ones who held the curbash . ’
26 They were the ones who started charging people for glasses and surgical appliances , wigs , things that are necessary and actually help in the management and care of patients .
27 We were the ones who exported the slaves in the first place , and now the white man is being asked back to restore the castles . ’
28 Now in , in the early stages you certainly want to encourage as many people from this base to join , when the development , the movement gathers pace it 's possible to say right we possibly w there 's some , sort of the wealthy peasants we do n't really want , they 're the ones who prospered under the old scheme of things , they were the ones who had some power and influence and er by even drawing them into the association there is a danger that they may sort of assume the lead or take an active role which would be detrimental , which would negate the movement and try and make it er less revolutionary and more lawful , they would go back to sort of reform of the old system rather than the overthrowal
29 But I was able to tell the House this morning that all the Rule forty-three prisoners , who were the ones who were particularly vulnerable , are now accounted for , and I mean by that that they have all come out of the jail in the last few days and unfortunately one of them , as you know , has died from his injuries .
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