Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [Wh pn] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , however , two small-scale studies have been completed which take on board the perceptions and experiences of parents who have been on the receiving end of child protection interventions . |
| 2 | The result of a ballot announced yesterday showed 78 per cent of parents who voted were in favour of Helena Romanes school in Great Dunmow opting out . |
| 3 | We found a few examples of workers who had been in the uninterrupted employment of a single organisation long enough to qualify for dismissal protection and statutory redundancy compensation rights , but who still had temporary status . |
| 4 | A. T. The system then was , there was a number of sergeants who had been in the army . |
| 5 | As workmen moved in to put up fencing yesterday , more demonstrators joined a small group of protesters who had been on a 24-hour vigil at the site . |
| 6 | In conclusion , I feel that the basic things which happen to the boys on the island would apply to girls also but would come about in a way both more slow and less physically violent , yet I have an idea that the scars left on the minds of girls who have been on an island together in Lord of the Flies circumstances may well be deeper and longer-lasting than those of boys in the same situation . |
| 7 | We 're very much involved in what 's called in-service training , in the retraining and helping of teachers who 've been in the profession for some years , and who need to get new qualifications or refreshment in their professional work . |
| 8 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 9 | Andy told me Howie and another two locals jumped a couple of travellers who 'd been at the party as well . |
| 10 | In 1989 the proportion of pensioners who had been in receipt of income support for three years or more was nearly double that for younger adults ( 76 per cent as against 39 per cent ) ( DSS , 1991 , p. 44 ) . |
| 11 | Robins came across the intact records of a child guidance clinic in St Louis , of children who had been in trouble between 1924 and 1929 . |
| 12 | So ghastly , that arrogance , that insensitivity of boys who 've been to public schools . |
| 13 | As the Newham Independent Counselling Service the scheme is in its infancy , but eventually ‘ we want a core of women who have been through the process to run a self-help group , ’ says Manning . |
| 14 | Scores of employees who had been inside the building and nearby structures staggered from shattered shops and buildings , some of them weeping . |