Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 A number of MPs who were opposed to the Monklands West MP becoming shadow Scottish secretary have remained critical .
2 Harold Macmillan and Anthony Eden shared the same reaction ; the young Robert Boothby was one of the few who were disappointed by the Armistice , because he had been too young to fight .
3 On Dec. 24 President George Bush exercised his executive power to pardon six people who were involved in the Iran-contra scandal .
4 In the mid 1960s a dominant group of Kikuyu , who were close to the Kenyatta family , determined that neither Odinga nor Mboya would come close to the presidency .
5 Jane Fisk from Norfolk and Pauline Sharpe , Christine Hutchinson and Ann Weathers who were all from the London Course .
6 It also includes people who were resident in the United Kingdom on or after 10 December 1974 and in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the relevant time falls ( see IHTA 1984 , s267 ) .
7 Critics of the programme , who were numerous in the USA as well as in the Soviet Union , maintained that it would violate the ABM treaty and therefore undermine the whole concept of deterrence by allowing a first strike to be delivered from behind a space ‘ shield ’ which would prevent or at least reduce the risk of retaliation .
8 It was practised not only by Palestrina but by Animuccia , by the Mantuan court composer , the Netherlander Giaches de Wert ( 1535–96 ) , by Marc Antonio Ingegneri of Cremona ( after 1547–1592 ) and Giovanni Matteo Asola of Verona ( c. 1524–1609 ) , both probably pupils of Ruffo , by the Nanino brothers , Giovanni Maria ( c. 1545–1607 ) and Giovanni Bernardino ( c. 1560–1623 ) , and by Palestrina 's own pupils Francesco Soriano ( c. 1549–1620 ) and Felice Anerio ( 1560–1614 ) , who were responsible for the Editio Medicaea of the chant , and Felice 's younger brother Giovanni Francesco ( c. 1567–1630 ) , although the music of these younger composers reveals the impression of new ideas .
9 Dalton Trumbo , who was one of the Hollywood Ten , jailed and blacklisted in 1947 , reappeared as a screenwriter in the sixties .
10 He would also go to Tangier to be close to his friend , the Hon George Borwick , who was married to a South African diamond multi-millionairess and was a member of the baking powder business .
11 Deutsch and Magowan claim that the DUP fielded seventy-five candidates and Fred Proctor , who was involved in the Shankill Defence Association ( one of the constituents of the Ulster Defence Association ) and instrumental in getting the DUP to contest the elections , made the same claim but that figure includes Vanguard members .
12 She was a devout Anabaptist and befriended James Burton , who was involved in the Rye House Plot , and gave him sanctuary , but she was betrayed and taken to London , where she was tried and became the last woman to be burnt at the stake at Tyburn on 16th October , 1685 .
13 Denis McCullough is also involved but perhaps Reid , who was successful at the Dundrod meeting as well as Temple and Mid-Antrim , will push on into a useful lead .
14 ‘ We ca n't tell clubs and players what to do ; that would be unrealistic in any international sport ’ , said Davies , who was present at the Bledisloe Cup series in Australia .
15 Rhythm Section and The Committee are both trained by Homer Scott although The Committee , who was third in the Kim Muir Chase at Cheltenham , is owned by Dominic Quinn and John Bailie under the name of Corcrain Enterprises .
16 Not a bit of it — do not know if W. J. Jakimiuk who was responsible for the Chipmunk 's lovely qualities also devised the Beaver 's agile handling , but I should not be surprised if he did , for it flies like a smaller aeroplane , with light forces and a roll-rate much better than that long high-aspect-ratio wing might suggest .
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