Example sentences of "[det] [Wh pn] [verb] [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 Almost all who died were Iraqi soldiers and in any war the soldier is not innocent .
2 In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common …
3 Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors .
4 One of those who signed was three-year-old Robert Lynch , of Darndale , who is two months younger than Johnathan Ball .
5 Median alcohol consumption of those who drank was 11 units in CLO patients , which was less than the 50 units ( p<0.001 ) in severe reflux oesophagitis patients but not as much as the adenocarcinoma group ( 12.5 units/week ) .
6 Among those who followed was the party 's education spokesman , introduced as Dr Bevan Morris .
7 Sentence of death was passed on 8 convicts at the Old Bailey , 4 of whom were executed on 15 Feb. : ‘ One of those who suffered was for robbing a farmer 's boy of sixpence . ’
8 Those who believed were asked to give their verdict on major psychic phenomena .
9 Most of those who left were members of the faction associated with Roh Tae Woo , the largest grouping within the party .
10 Amongst those who served were Edward Bohun , William de Montague , Robert Ufford , Hugh Audley and John Neville of Hornby , together with the ‘ disinherited ’ and the northern magnates .
11 These courses , designed to provide this information , were over-subscribed and the feedback from those who attended was that they wished they had been available earlier .
12 Reaction from those who attended was , without exception , extremely favourable , and endorses the view that the building constitutes one of the finest available to the market in the City of London .
13 The only disappointment of the evening was the lack of interest shown by the ordinary members of the Society for this event ; most of those who attended were spouses , friends , or colleagues of the committee .
14 Among those who attended were Gerry Adams , MP for West Belfast , the US vice-consul Cathy Hurst , Graham Gudgin , Director of the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre , Dr. Liam O'Dowd of Queen 's University , Belfast , along with many community activists , local councillors and representatives of political parties , including Lily Fitzsimmons , Sinn Féin , Alex Atwood , SDLP and Mary McMahon , Workers ' Party .
15 How would it be monitored and regulated to ensure that those who cheated were penalized ?
16 Those who agreed were visited at home , where , after giving informed consent , they completed a series of questionnaires and had blood taken by the research nurse .
17 Those who agreed were given an envelope in which to seal their completed questionnaire before returning it to the member of staff .
18 We do not know exactly how many of those who re-applied were supporting children , who are mentioned only occasionally in the sources .
19 Among those who offered was Zoser .
20 Among those who went were John B Dynes and Edward Wright who had already served in the 1914–1918 War .
21 Among those who came was Pietro Torrigiano , who designed the tomb of Henry VII and his queen in the new chapel at Westminster Abbey .
22 Even today , the toll of addictive disease is still terrible yet many of those who die were aware of the 12 Steps and of the other recommendations of the Anonymous Fellowships .
23 Most of those who died were not guerrillas , and certainly not Marxists , but illiterate , Catholic peasant farm-workers from Guatemala 's high plateaux .
24 His comments were a bit premature because we find that in the next few months more than half those who died were children between the ages of 8 days and 9 years .
25 The atrocity had been a " deliberate retaliatory attack " after a landmine killed two soldiers ; there was no evidence to support claims by army officers that those who died were " caught in crossfire " during an exchange of fire with LTTE guerrillas .
26 Those who died were aged between 15 and 84 years .
27 Three of those who died were pedestrians , one a driver , one a car passenger .
28 But at all events , it must be concluded that , assuming an entry age of 14 in most cases , the average length of time in the trade for those who married was ten or eleven years , while for those who did not it was very much longer .
29 Clearly Looe schoolboys were expected to have a nautical bent and those who had were promised they would ‘ … be shown to take Observations of the Sun , Moon and Stars so expeditiously and accurately as if actually at sea , Looe having the advantage of the Horizon thereat upwards of 110 degrees ’ .
30 Those who had were then asked for details of their involvement in the review and the preparation of the report and about the outcomes of the whole procedure .
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