Example sentences of "[adj] who [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plantation owners were mainly Low Country Sinhalese from the littoral who were seeking to invest capital which they had made as entrepreneurs , and they usually hired Low Countrymen to manage their estates . |
| 2 | In Barcelona he was among the 261 who were tested between July 20 and 30 . ’ |
| 3 | Terry Butcher , the former England centre half who was sacked as Coventry 's player-manager earlier in the season , has made a surprise comeback as a player . |
| 4 | As far as the capital assets were concerned , it was not clear who was pursuing the matter , although there was an implication that the local authority was involved . |
| 5 | It was n't clear who was pedalling whose bike as more than a hundred mountain cyclists advanced in a humming phalanx of brightly coloured jerseys from the tiny square in Llanwrtyd Wells , smallest town in Britain . |
| 6 | It was never clear who was to blame for starting the niggles , but there could be no argument that , on the day , the Taiwanese were the better team . |
| 7 | At least an hour before the cooks submitted their offerings to be judged , it was clear who was going to win . |
| 8 | To Kelly , watching them as she sipped her port , it was clear who was going to win . |
| 9 | The Tournament at Eglinton caught the fancy of the nation at the time but few who were involved could have thought that it would be so well remembered 150 years later . |
| 10 | In a limited sense and for a fortunate few who were related to the adult mule spinners with whom they worked , this may have been true . |
| 11 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 12 | The man who entered a monastery did so , in principle , for life ; there were of course apostates ; there were also a number who moved on to a stricter way of life ; and a few who were promoted to abbeys elsewhere , or to bishoprics , or even to the papacy . |
| 13 | I was one of the selected few who were billetted ashore and joined the various boats every day . |
| 14 | They managed to avoid the panning reserved for contemporaries like Bogshed who were termed : ‘ Four twisted misanthropes trying to make a career out of sneering at people ’ by Dave Jennings in the NME . |
| 15 | Among female members this figure was an encouraging 67 per cent and even more encouraging was the figures for women under 30 who were polled . |
| 16 | There were those who found him an oddity and some who were repelled by his right-wing and reactionary views . |
| 17 | Many teachers were simply not available at the time we visited and some who were approached refused to go through the questionnaire with us . |
| 18 | Some who were working intended to slip away for an hour or so . |
| 19 | She was another who was loved because she was as she was . |
| 20 | A knot of men came from the shore at a staggering run , carrying another who was crying . |
| 21 | Douglas did n't want him as director but Mann was under contract to Universal who were financing the film and insisted on him . |
| 22 | A number of the male houses were little better ; the Benedictine house of Sele had a non-resident prior in the 1460s who was given to selling off the moveable goods to keep up his life style . |
| 23 | One 11 year old who was asked about the shape of the Earth replied that he knew he was supposed to say that it was shaped like a sphere , but that he thought people only say that so that it would fit easily on a globe : |
| 24 | ‘ The shares were divided among three groups of managers — the 50 most senior , some 250 middle managers and the remaining 700 who were running large contracts , or a group of units . |
| 25 | Now these scientists are being asked to bear another burden : nearly 2,000 who were promised university positions may now find themselves jobless because the universities do not want them . |
| 26 | Moreover , ’ he smiled , ‘ I asked the young gallant who was sitting by Benedicta to take care of both ladies . |
| 27 | In under 2½ years , contractor Balfour Beatty Construction ( Scotland ) Limited who were awarded the £12.6 million roadworks contract have excavated approximately 40,000 cu m of rock and 500,000 cu m of coil , and have compacted 450,000 cu m of fill of which about 200,000 cu m was imported . |
| 28 | There was a woman in hot-pants who won , I ca n't think why , and a man came second who was dressed as a skeleton who climbed out of a coffin and sang . |
| 29 | An Untouchable who was caught urinating near a Brahmin could be castrated , as could any lower-caste Hindu who had sex with a Brahmin woman . |
| 30 | One Saturday night in the summer of 1966 police in Brooklyn apprehended sixteen teenagers of both sexes aged between sixteen and nineteen who were dancing naked in the street . |