Example sentences of "[noun pl] who had made " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nomura Securities , Nikko Securities , Daiwa Securities and Yamaichi Securities were accused by the national tax authorities of having attempted to conceal the fact that they had made compensation payments to certain large clients who had made losses after taking their investment advice . |
| 2 | The two men who came in were old friends of hers , rich American connoisseurs who had made their home in Paris before the war and left only just in time . |
| 3 | MacArthur remained sceptical and told Gascoigne he doubted whether Washington meant business on the treaty : in his opinion it was a ‘ smokescreen ’ intended to mollify those allied countries who had made representations . |
| 4 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 5 | Many thanks were due to all the teachers and performers who had made the afternoon such a success . |
| 6 | In June a major scandal began to emerge involving securities dealers who had made secret compensation payments to favoured clients for losses incurred through taking their advice . |
| 7 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 8 | The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes . |
| 9 | Were they , as has been asserted , in large measure recruited from chapmen who had made their pile — new men in the full sense of the phrase ; or were they , as some more recent historians have emphasized , more often recruited from the sons of local landed families who had taken to trade ? |
| 10 | Bigger figures — industrialists who had made weapons for Germany — were tried later at highly publicised hearings . |
| 11 | An Astropath on board a barge bound on the long slow haul from Karkason to the dwarf partner star , Karka Secundus , had chanced to eavesdrop on a telepathic message from the mining world to one of those agric planets that Sagramoso had seduced , using pirates paid with power crystals as his emissaries — pirates who had made themselves scarce with their illicit starships when the crusade had come through the Warp to Karka 's Sun . |
| 12 | The new Burma Army would have a British Inspector-General and two Deputies , one from the PBF and one from the ethnic minorities who had made such an important contribution to harassing the Japanese . |
| 13 | The government had similarly blamed " armed foreign forces " for clashes in the south-west of Djibouti on Oct. 20-23 , in which , according to the Defence Ministry , the army had killed 12 of a group of 400-500 men wearing Ethiopian uniforms who had made an incursion into the Dikhil region , bordering Ethiopia . |
| 14 | HALF A DOZEN years ago , it was almost fashionable for scientists who had made a quick excursion through Britain 's mortality statistics to adopt a righteous posture and preach the message that people were worried about the wrong things ( usually nuclear power ) . |
| 15 | In nine counties the forests were ordered to be kept by the same bounds as before the war between King John and his barons ; on 27 October 1228 the juries who had made the perambulations of the Yorkshire forests of Galtres and Farndale , and the forest between Ouse and Derwent , obediently amended their verdicts . |
| 16 | We said goodbye and thanks to our friends who had made the day so happy for us , changed into travelling clothes , and left for the station . |
| 17 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 18 | Scenes from the evening flashed before her eyes : the dignity of the old man to whom Ludovico had gently presented her and with whom she had performed a stately dance , delicately held in his wizened old arms ; the young men who had made a ring around her and Ludo before lifting them on to their shoulders and carrying them back to Santo Spirito ; the women who had caressed her blonde hair and whispered , ‘ Bella ! |
| 19 | Prayers sprang to the lips of men who had made a trade out of phoney miracles . |
| 20 | Moreover , the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 , and the emergence of public deficit financing , led to the appearance of a new force in politics , that of the " monied interest " , men who had made huge fortunes as a result of investing in the national debt . |
| 21 | His favourite pastime of an evening was to leaf through historical albums , studying portraits of the men who had made their mark on Europe during the past half-century . |
| 22 | On the contrary she roused my indignation at the two conspicuously Christian aunts who had made her childhood in that dark house at Newport miserable . |
| 23 | For journalists like him , and others who had made their names digging out scandals such as Poulson , Jeremy Thorpe , Thalidomide , and police corruption , or by trying to engage the sympathy of the nation and the government for the oppressed in society , life was becoming more and more difficult . |
| 24 | It could be suggested that the workmen who had made the trinkets and votive objects for visitors continued to use their technical skill for profit , or that a new land-owner was exploiting the commercial potential of the local labour . |
| 25 | After Cromwell , new squires , successful tradesmen , farmers and impoverished Cavaliers who had made good marriages then began to build new houses . |
| 26 | Endill asked Mcduff , the only person in Nettles who had made friends with him , why this was so as they were throwing stones into the water from the dormitory window . |