Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reference was encouraging to many of the Shah 's Iranian opponents who interpreted it as the presidents support for their struggle against the Shah . |
| 2 | In the middle decades of the century , it was increasingly the German-speaking biologists who led the way . |
| 3 | Will the few surviving traditionalists who wore Pakamacs first time round , dripping and steaming simultaneously on forlorn summer holidays or jeered unmercifully at school , take to bright colours ? |
| 4 | He was , he said , one of that small group of political eccentrics who browsed around the dustbins of policy hoping occasionally to come across the word ‘ science ’ : |
| 5 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 6 | All the loose women Sally-Anne had previously met in both English and American society had been particularly lovely and tempting creatures , not gross and depressed objects who looked like unmade beds — as Rose 's ma did . |
| 7 | His father was a farmer with advanced agricultural views who lived until the age of 88 , so that his son , who farmed with him , had ample time and restless energy to travel the country and buy pigs , sheep , horses and cattle with the aim of deliberately improving them . |
| 8 | The State Department had accused Guatemala of ‘ failing to investigate effectively , to detain or prosecute ’ people in the security forces or half a dozen armed groups who took part in ‘ extrajudicial killings ’ . |
| 9 | Now , an amendment to an ICAO agenda requires a two-thirds majority in plenary session , and we were but three European States who wished to put this through . |
| 10 | In elections for the Gaza Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 4 nationalists who backed the Madrid conference won 13 of the 16 seats , unexpectedly leaving only three to Islamic groups who had rejected the conference . |
| 11 | The pastoralist who can control his aggression with regard to his animals has in his childhood first had to learn how to do it with regard to his excremental activities and the parental authority-figures who insisted . |
| 12 | What happened to all those budding artists who came to sign on last autumn and arrived with their brand new paint boxes and paper ? |
| 13 | This may or may not be true , but , what most certainly is true is that the next decade of Trinidadian political life was dominated by a diverse band of political mavericks who had only one thing in common . |
| 14 | He had spent most of his life in England and admired both the feudal-system efficiency and military skills of the Norman knights who had administered that country since William of Normandy conquered it in 1066 . |
| 15 | These civil service pension arrangements were in due course copied , with modifications , by other public and private sector employers , though up to World War I it appears to have been a small minority of mainly the more prestigious employers who developed such formal occupational pension provision . |
| 16 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 17 | The Brunei government on Jan. 6 ordered the release of six political prisoners who had been detained soon after the large-scale revolt which broke out in Brunei and other parts of British Borneo in 1962 [ see p. 19261 ; for release of 38 political detainees in 1988 see p. 36355 ] . |
| 18 | An amnesty of political prisoners who had renounced communism was also expected . |
| 19 | Representatives from the recently formed Forum for the Defence of Human Rights met on Feb. 12 with the then Interior Minister Hekuran Isai , and received from him a list of 108 political prisoners who had been released unannounced since Jan. 6 , according to a Forum statement issued on Feb. 18 . |
| 20 | In September soldiers opened fire on political prisoners who had gone on hunger strike in Insein prison ( Yangon ) ; four were killed and many others were injured . |
| 21 | Nelson Mandela , the ANC president , intervened on their behalf on humanitarian as well as political grounds , linking their plight to that of the hundreds of ANC political prisoners who remained in prison . |
| 22 | It reiterated its view that the 300-400 political prisoners who remained in prison could be released under existing measures , but that all security force members involved in violence should face prosecution . |
| 23 | They identified two distinct social problems : the ‘ low , loafing class ’ , the ‘ residuum ’ at the bottom of society , the very poor and irregularly employed who constituted a permanent problem ; and the élite of respectable labourers who suffered occasional problems of poverty due to unemployment , sickness and old age . |
| 24 | By the eighteenth century Pocklington society included a number of gentlemen , attorneys , apothecaries , merchants and those rural clergy who preferred to live in the town rather than in the cultural isolation of their rural parsonages . |
| 25 | The amendment was introduced by the government under pressure from land-owning peers led by Lord Pearson of Rannoch who , it later emerged , was backed mistakenly by 17 Labour peers who had misunderstood their brief . |
| 26 | When he came down the alley toward the club 's stage door he could see that there were three rough-looking teenagers who 'd clambered up the side of one of the big waste bins and were lifting stuff around inside . |
| 27 | The party has now discarded the leaders with overly Nazi political pasts who controlled it in the 1970s . |
| 28 | Levi 's support base was within the large Sephardi community ( members or descendants of the western branch of European Jews who settled in Spain and Portugal and latterly in north Africa , as opposed to the Askhenazi — the northern European Yiddish-speaking Jews ) , and many of his supporters claimed that the Shamir-Arens-Sharon collaboration had been nothing short of ethnic discrimination by the " Ashkenazi bosses " . |
| 29 | The doomed one was fragile and childlike between the tall stoic guards who led her to her fate . |
| 30 | The spread was partly due to the initiative of former pupils of deaf schools who wanted to continue the friendships which school life had forged and to help one another in adulthood , and partly to the evangelistic zeal and charitable urge of hearing people associated with deaf schools , who realised that deaf and dumb children needed support also in adult life . |