Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is the best art fair I 've done since 1989 ’ enthuses Susan Sheehan , a New York print dealer who sold twelve works , including a Matisse aquatint , for ‘ just under $100,000 ’ , and New York dealer Peter Findlay adds , ‘ There is a sense that it is alright to buy art again ’ . |
| 2 | A very early and most interesting use of this technique was that of Jahoda who asked young people at school to write an essay about their first day at work and what they envisaged it would be like . |
| 3 | The ATC type certificate and production rights were acquired in 1948 by Univair in Denver , Colorado who produced 152 aircraft at $3,590 apiece . |
| 4 | It may have been the Marquess of Atholl who planned these works ; he had inherited the estates in 1670 . |
| 5 | The skill of the masons of 500 years ago and the faith of those who commissioned such works , which were truly built to the greater glory of God , is difficult to understand today . |
| 6 | It was Freud who made modern people aware of the unconscious influence of the father . |
| 7 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 8 | In the Preface he described the superstitions of the Irish peasantry and the rigid hold on them of the Roman Catholic priests , who used all means to confine them to the Irish language , lest if they learnt English they might converse with members of the Church of Ireland or attend its services . |
| 9 | Not to the haughty woman who used helpless people as pawns in her ambitious games . |
| 10 | ( 1983 ) , who used partial data ( unemployment registers classified by last employment ) for the period 1979–82 to conclude that the regional north/south split was as important as the urban/rural split , and that future growth would probably be dominated by free-standing towns in the ‘ sun-belt ’ of the southeast . |
| 11 | Einhard 's criticism that the late Merovingians travelled around in ox-carts ignored the fact that in so doing they were copying late Roman provincial governors , who used this means of transport to ensure that they were accessible to petitioners . |
| 12 | Futures firms such as Stox and DPR Futures , who used hard sales techniques in the mould of LHW , which did survive the onset of the Financial Services Act ( 1986 ) , also bit the dust for various reasons . |
| 13 | Anne , on cue , gave birth to her second child , Jennifer Celia ( nicknamed Jenna ) , who weighed 8 lb 3 oz . |
| 14 | I packed up and went to follow the scales and 7 lb was the top until it came to Tony who weighed 10 lb dead . |
| 15 | The Yuk Factor sustains through Robert Cullen 's The Killer Department ( Orion , April , £15.99 , 1 85797 070 5 ) , about that demented bald Russian in a cage , the one who murdered 50-odd people and ate them , and nearer home we can enjoy Murder on Ward Four ( Chatto , May , £9,99 , 0 7011 4813 6 ) , Nick Davies ' investigation into the nurse of impeccable credentials who allegedly killed eight children before she was discovered . |
| 16 | Laura , for instance , had two younger brothers , who were not settling very well into the stockbrokers ' firm in which they had been placed , and numerous uncles , one of them an old horror who obtained Scandinavian au pairs through advertisements in The Lady , and then , of course , her Norfolk cousins . |
| 17 | It is Mary Reevley who polled twenty percent . |
| 18 | SUSAN Christie , the soldier imprisoned last year for killing the wife of her army officer lover , will be bridesmaid at a prison wedding next Thursday for a convicted terrorist who killed 17 people — 11 of them soldiers . |
| 19 | The legislation followed a 32-day march of 700 indigenous Indians from the town of Trinidad in the Beni department , who walked 600 km to the capital , La Paz . |
| 20 | At another NEW party , there had been present one of the journal 's current gurus , Midrinovic , probably taken up first by Orage , who collected such people ( at one time he was a disciple of Gurdjieff ) . |
| 21 | A pensioner who pulled two people from a burning car has received an award for heroism . |
| 22 | He phoned his provincial headquarters at Cesena , who called regional headquarters at Bologna , who checked with their opposite numbers in Florence before confirming that no member of the force had been reported missing on either side of the Apennines . |
| 23 | The Killala Bay SAC Smithwicks 1500 Open Boat competition has been won by Michael McVeigh from Donaghadee , who recorded 18 species over two days to win the John Walkin Perpetual Trophy and £500 . |
| 24 | A lifelong plantsman , who established rare species collected overseas , Morris won national acclaim as a breeder of irises . |
| 25 | But first we had visited Decoy Marsh , the site of an early duck decoy built by seventeenth century Dutch engineers who fancied roast duck on their menu . |
| 26 | They were driven back by police , who arrested seven people . |
| 27 | They threw rocks and firebombs in Eisenhuttenstadt , near the Polish border , before being driven back by police , who arrested seven people . |
| 28 | The rioters , protesting against vegetable shortages , had been killed in clashes with the Revolutionary Guards , who arrested 150 people . |
| 29 | This was the line already adopted by Binchy ( 1984 ) who interpreted world-wide statistics in this direction . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , I just bumped into some people , who knew some people … . |