Example sentences of "[noun] who were [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A senior female officer explained to an assembly of policewomen who were being trained in how to operate a casualty bureau that they were better suited to operating the telephones because of their ‘ good manners and compassionate nature ’ ( FN 29/5/87 , p. 2 ) . |
| 2 | Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has ordered the release of nine Frenchmen who were being held hostage . |
| 3 | I mean I remember judges who were were er much younger than seventy who were beyond it . |
| 4 | Two statesmen who were were in the political wilderness by the mid-1930s were hardly likely , or able , to challenge the unthinking protectionist attitude of a National government which enjoyed a substantial parliamentary majority . |
| 5 | Well , he showed them his real find , the Rivera murals , the white-clothed indigenos who were being liberated , the obese bosses with their cigars tumbling , the beautiful Mayan prostitute cheeking the bourgeois couple in Almeida Park . |
| 6 | By Paul Byrne chief reporter A GROUP of British Rail workers who were being paid thousands of pounds to do nothing have finally gone back to work . |
| 7 | Eventually the crowd dispersed down John Street ; any enthusiasm for the original route was dampened by the presence of a large crowd of loyalists who were being restrained by the police behind the barriers . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the owner the person who lived a small terraced property , whose garden backs onto the fields tried to get the hounds several dozen hounds off these two dogs who were being savaged to death and he had a heart attack in the process , Chairman and was hospitalized for several weeks That Chairman is the effect of the hunt on one of my constituents whose job it is for me to defend the rights that I was elected here to defend the rights of my constituents , not to be harassed in this manner . |
| 9 | Councillors received many heart-rending pleas from families who were being forced into emigration as the only alternative to their miserable and expensive accommodation ; complaints about rat infestation were not infrequent . |
| 10 | one of those projects erm was , was an advice er advice project for tenants who were being moved out as part of the , as part of the programme of moving o of moving the tenants out , |
| 11 | Erm I forget which discussant it was but it it 's wrong to think that there 's a difference I think between erm me , I was being characteritured as wanting a site specific policy , and Harrogate who were being characteritured as wanting a criteria based policy . |
| 12 | According to a UN spokesman the SLA opened fire ( which the SLA described as self-defence ) during negotiations to free a group of 14 unarmed Swedish and French members of UNIFIL who were being held hostage by three Palestinian guerrillas . |
| 13 | ‘ These were people who were being sent back against their will to a country they had sought to leave and it is inevitable that they should not be joyful , but there was no resistance . ’ |
| 14 | About a year before I left it was all discussed when I would be made a partner along with one or two other people who were being brought through . |
| 15 | The most important overt reason was this ‘ discovery ’ of a large group of people who were being effectively denied legal representation . |
| 16 | And er so I think the kind of people who were being housed . |
| 17 | Because you know money-wise because we were not content to sit back and see er schemes being introduced that , which were going to act as a deterrent to er our members er being able to earn wages er on incentives and so therefore erm what happened was that we agreed that the consultants er head personnel manager would come down and talk to each group of people who were being put on to the incentive scheme , one , in order that he go over everything with them in regard to its application , and two , then answer any practical questions er where our members may find that there could be difficulties . |
| 18 | It had such incredible dignity and power , and it was something that made these villagers , these people who were being so tiresome , give way to her as she walked through them , and it 's in the music . |
| 19 | Computed tomography of the gall bladder was initially done on all patients but latterly , only patients who were being considered for extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy ( patients with one to three gall stones which were less than 3 cm in diameter ) were scanned to determine stone density ( calcification ) . |
| 20 | It was rather a horrid mist ; you felt as if it might be concealing peering , grinning creatures who were being very careful to stay just out of sight , but who were creeping after you as you rode along , or who were tiptoeing on ahead of you , rubbing their hands together , waiting until you reached them … |
| 21 | She 'd done the photo session of couture gowns as well , of course , clicking away dutifully with those other photographers who were being dictated to by their fashion editors . |
| 22 | It was not only the female compositors who were being asked for support . |
| 23 | Ascending and descending colonic biopsy specimens were taken from 12 patients with longstanding quiescent ulcerative colitis who were being examined as part of a programme to screen for dysplasia/malignancy , and from 12 patients who acted as controls , who did not have ulcerative colitis . |
| 24 | I was sent hither and thither on messages , and sometimes went in the car with a billeting officer to help him or her with young children who were being placed in homes . |
| 25 | The earlier prints on the film were of men who were being rolled across canvases covered in paint . |
| 26 | This new freedom to travel safely far and wide had a profound effect not only on men 's lives but also on their thoughts and beliefs ; these men who were being uprooted provided ‘ the background to the anxious thoughts of the religious leaders of the late second century ’ . |
| 27 | The fight was between five men who were being watched by a screaming crowd of about 60 onlookers . |
| 28 | ‘ Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law , or by hearing with faith ? ’ asks Paul of the Galatians who were being tempted to go back to legalism ( Gal. 3:2 ) . |
| 29 | Erm , only three scholarship , but then of course , you got the er governors free places , which were nearly the same , and then the number who were being paid for . |
| 30 | Two others who were being questioned have been released on police bail . |